Critical acclaim for Voices in the Dark
"Voices in the Dark is a brilliant example of a thriller on stage that truly works... (Annie Gavin Li) is to be applauded... strap in for a ride you will not soon forget."
Deb Flomberg, Examiner.com

"...it takes skillful writing, direction and acting to get an audience to lose itself in a thriller, and John Pielmeier's script, El Armstrong's direction, and leading lady Annie Gavin Li, with her supporting cast, pull it off."
Fr. Patrick Dorn, The Playwright Priest Drama Review

"Theatre director El Armstrong is the new Hitchcock... Annie Gavin Li plays Lil with a professional ease that is astounding... thoroughly well thought out and thoroughly well executed... This is awesome work."
David Marlowe, Life on Capitol Hill

Congratulations to our 2009 Ovation Award Finalists
We had a very memorable season in 2009, and we are proud to have been nominated for the Denver Post Ovation Awards for the year. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all the actors, artists, designers and builders that make our theater what it is.

Finalist, BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL ROLE:
Kelly Twedt, "The Fantasticks"

Finalist, BEST ACTRESS, COMIC ROLE:
Rita Broderick, "Educating Rita "

Finalist, BEST LIGHTING:
Karalyn Star Pytel, "The Fantasticks"

Vic put the home in "home theater"
Basement stage that brought Shakespeare to the West in the 1900s remains Denver's intimate experience
By John Moore
Denver Post Theater critic 1/2/09

"There's no theater experience in Colorado like a night at the Victorian Playhouse, carved in 1911 out of the basement of a hallowed home in northwest Denver." Click here to read the full article

The Vic announces online ticketing!
We've teamed up with OvationTix to provide fast and easy online ticketing for all our shows here at the Denver Victorian Playhouse. Online tickets are available now, click here to see the calendar.

Denver Post Ovation Awards honor The Vic
We are extremely pleased to recognize the achievements of the 2007 Ovation Award nominees that have worked with us here at The Vic. Congratulations to you all, and all the other exceptional artists and designers who made our theatre such a success. Well done!

BEST YEAR BY A DIRECTOR:
Terry Dodd: Victorian's "Twelfth Night" and "Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol," Miners Alley's "Lobby Hero," Modern Muse's "thom pain (based on nothing)," Crossroads' "Three Viewings," Bas Bleu's "The 1940s Radio Christmas Carol"

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA:
Terry Ann Watts "Dead Man Walking"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY:
*Seth Maisel "No Sex Please, We're British

* Winner of the reader's choice award

Westword "Best of Denver" 2006
BEST THEATRICAL RESURRECTION
Denver Victorian Playhouse
The story of this theater, like much of Denver's history, was shaped by tuberculosis. At the turn of the previous century, George Swartz, a tuberculosis patient and Shakespeare aficionado, moved to the area for its dry, sunny climate and bought a house. He built a theater into his basement and presented all of Shakespeare's plays there. During its existence, the theater has gone through periods of use and periods of darkness. Paul Willet ran it from 1964 to shortly before his death in 1984, using the quaintly old-fashioned setting to present uncompromising plays. Wade and Lorraine Wood purchased the Victorian this year and are presenting an interesting and eclectic roster of plays. True to the gracious spirit of the place -- and the ghost of Paul Willet -- they serve tea, coffee and cookies during intermissions.

BEST PRODUCTION BASED ON PRINCIPLE
Dead Man Walking Denver Victorian Playhouse
The men on America's death rows, their lingering, useless days, the terror of the hours until countdown: Most of us rarely think about them, but like the mad aunt in the attic, they are always there, haunting the fringes of consciousness. University of Denver's Sturm College of Law, in conjunction with Alliance Stage, brought the issue into the daylight recently, staging Tim Robbins's Dead Man Walking, based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean. The book and the play make the inhumanity of state-sanctioned execution clear while taking into account the rage and grief of victims' families. Dead Man Walking is, in part, agitprop, but it's agitprop in the most thoughtful and honorable tradition. The production at the Victorian was effective, sustained in large part by the beautiful and committed work of Terry Ann Watts as Sister Helen and Michael Richman's understated, passionate performance as convicted killer Matt Poncelet.

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