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Best Actor in a Drama
Award Winner 2012

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Red

Every Fri., Sat., Sun. from May 5 until June 16

A play about an artist assigned to create a definitive group of murals for an exclusive restaurant. Written by John Logan.
Red

8:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat. from May 3 until June 16

The fabled color-field painter Mark Rothko left a troubled yet brilliant legacy behind after committing suicide in 1970, something that's brought i...

2012 | Best Contemporary Monologue

Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul was a gutsy choice for Curious Theatre Company -- not least because it began with a one-hour monologue in which a conventional Englishwoman clutching an outdated travel guide to her breast expressed her longing to see Afghanistan. She cited facts from the guidebook, embellished them with her own imaginings, and contrasted these ideas with her own safe and comfortable existence in London. She mused on the passage of time, played passionately with language.... More »
2012 | Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy

When Jessica Austgen is on stage, she's so full of life and originality that you can't take your eyes off her. In Collapse, produced by Curious Theatre Company, she played one of those neurotic, crazy, needy sisters who upends a shaky marriage. Clad in vivid rusts and oranges that perfectly accentuated her red hair and eccentric persona, Austgen squirmed on the sofa, practiced her stretches on a mat, spouted new-age truisms, wheedled, threatened and talked about her cat, Camille Paglia. She... More »
2012 | Best Actor in a Drama

9 Circles, which had its regional premiere at Curious Theatre Company, is based on a real-life atrocity in Iraq: an incident in which a United States soldier entered a family home, raped and killed the fourteen-year-old daughter, killed both her parents and her six-year-old sister, then attempted to burn her body. Taking us into this man's mind is a serious challenge. As Daniel Reeves, Sean Scrutchins needed to be twitchy and almost blurrily out of focus at first, and then, by turns,... More »
2012 | Best Theater Season

If Curious Theatre Company had only brought us Clybourne Park -- Bruce Norris's witty and insightful update of Lorraine Hansberry's famed A Raisin in the Sun -- this season, well, dayenu, as we say at Passover: It would have been enough. If artistic director Chip Walton had seized only on Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul to introduce to Denver audiences, that might have been enough, too. But instead, in a season that also included Caryl Churchill's strange little brain tease A Number,... More »
2011 | Best Theater Production

Sometimes the small pleasures are the most intense. Circle Mirror Transformation followed the encounters of a group of small-town, would-be thespians learning acting and performing theater exercises -- tell an anecdote, mirror another person vocally and physically, hold a conversation using only nonsense words -- and slowly coming to know each other. There were no great revelations or climactic events in this Curious Theatre Company production, just occasional bright moments of... More »
2011 | Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy

As an actor, Mark Rubald communicates a radiant decency. When he's on stage, you just plain like him; you want him to be happy and succeed. So he was perfectly cast as a good-natured working stiff in Curious Theatre Company's production of Circle Mirror Transformation. You could see how puzzled Schultz was by all the arty stuff going on in these acting workshops, how intrigued by sexy little vixen Theresa and how sad when their affair fell apart. And yet you knew he'd carry on, as calm,... More »
2011 | Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy

When it's required, C. Kelly Leo can muster an intensity that threatens to shatter the theater walls, and she deployed it to hilarious effect as neurotic Hermia, wife of the dead man at the center of Dead Man's Cell Phone. Tightly wound and buttoned down at the beginning, she unspooled after a few drinks to become a small tornado, so gleefully and brilliantly over the top that she actually seemed to blur at the edges. Leo's part was small, but she solidified this Curious Theatre Company... More »
2010 | Best Actor in a Drama

Dorian is a brilliant but unstable musician, the most troublesome member of the musical quartet featured in Opus, a man who seems to channel Mozart when he plays. In the Curious Theatre Company production of this play, Hahn brought his usual intensity to the role, but he also gave the character an out-of-world quality, the dreaminess of a man lost not only in music, but in the dissonance of a sometimes unhinged brain -- until, that is, the final scene brought an unexpected transformation. More »
2010 | Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy

Real-life conspiracy theorists tend to be boring people with bad breath who trap you in corners to expound endlessly on the actual author of Shakespeare's plays and how the CIA staged 9/11. But Yankee Tavern's Ray is way funnier and more ironic. He talks to ghosts, hates Starbucks and the facial-tissue industry, and carries a moon rock in his pocket -- a rock from the real, invisible moon landing, as opposed to the highly publicized 1969 event. Marcus Waterman is always a pleasure to... More »
2010 | Best Theater Booster

Over the years, there have been hits and misses at Curious Theatre Company, transformative plays that vibrated in your mind long after you'd seen them and others that slipped instantly into oblivion -- or that you wished you could send there. Nonetheless, Curious is the most consistently interesting and risk-taking company in Denver, and that's because founder Chip Walton is that rare being: a highly competent administrator who's as uncompromisingly committed to the art of theater as he... More »
2009 | Best Theater Production

Find a terrific script, gather together a first-rate cast and a group of talented technicians, direct with a mix of meticulousness and wonder -- and lo and behold, you get Curious's magical production of playwright Sarah Ruhl's take on the age-old myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. We're at a loss to decide what to praise first and most: Chip Walton's direction; Michael R. Duran's set; Shannon McKinney's lighting; Brian Freeland's sound; Janice Lacek's costumes; the choreography of Garrett... More »
2008 | Best Theater Season

Although there were some disappointments at Curious Theatre early in the season, How I Learned to Drive -- a reprise of the first-ever Curious production ten years ago -- was a hit, and the company continued to roar forward with two of the most exciting productions on a Denver stage this year. 9 Parts of Desire, a play by Heather Raffo, revealed the depth and complexity of Iraqi culture through the voices of several women, and in a gutsy, beautiful performance, Karen Slack played... More »

Curious Theatre brings painter Mark Rothko to life in Red

By Juliet Wittman | Thu, May 17, 2012

Over the past year, Curious Theatre Company has given us a first-rate production of Pulitzer winner and Tony nominee Clybourne Park; 9 Circles, the regional premiere of a deeply humane investigation into the psyche of an American soldier on trial ... More »
Like Rothko's paintings, Red makes strong demands on the viewer

By Juliet Wittman | Thu, May 10, 2012

Red opened last weekend at Curious Theatre Company. We'll publish a full review in the next Westword -- but Juliet Wittman was so impressed with the production, she provided this sneak preview: John ... More »
To the Bad Manners Born

By Juliet Wittman | Thu, April 12, 2012

Chip Walton, artistic director of Curious Theatre, says he's having such a blast rehearsing Becky Shaw that he's almost sorry the play is opening this weekend. "There's a great, wry sarcasm" to the script, he explains. Playwright Gina Gionfriddo t... More »
Make a date with Becky Shaw, a play about a blind date

By Juliet Wittman | Thu, March 29, 2012

Becky Shaw, the new production that Chip Walton is directing at Curious Theatre Company, opened the weekend before the Best of Denver issue -- in which we published no reviews. (We did, however, give... More »
Vicious Cycles

By Juliet Wittman | Thu, February 09, 2012

When a U.S. soldier commits an atrocity overseas, Americans tend to respond in predictable ways. Some attempt to excuse the soldier, talking about the fog of war, the split-second decisions the forces are required to make, the inevitability of mis... More »
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