Veruca Salt wants an Oompa Loompa and she wants it now. Veruca is one of five winners of a golden ticket that gains her entrance into Willy Wonka’s famous Chocolate Factory in the 1971 film “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” starring Gene Wilder. The other...
The one-man show, “This Is Not an Immigrant Story,” will come to Aspen as part of the six “Solo Flights” that Theatre Aspen will present from Sept. 8–13. The show, taking the stage at 7pm, Sept. 8, and 4pm, Sept. 11, will be the only one of...
Theatre Aspen’s 7th annual Solo Flights festival returns to the Hurst Theatre this week, starting Tuesday. Solo Flights is an annual weeklong developmental festival of one-person shows that are presented in the nascent stages of their making. It was launched in 2019. “The event was created to...
“A Chorus Line” is getting a curtain call at Theatre Aspen Hurst Theatre. From July 3 to July 26, Theatre Aspen staged the 1976 Broadway musical, which was the runaway hit of their three-show summer slate. Colorado Springs actress Ahren Victory shined as “Cassie,” the main...
Most parents know the fear: What if something went wrong with my child and no one could tell me why? Colorado-based playwright Jason Gray Platt has turned that fear into “Crusades,” a play starring Tony Award-winner Santino Fontana. The one-man stage play will run beginning at...
Playwright Liza Powel O’Brien could not decide how to feel about Ruth Madoff after Madoff’s husband, Bernie, was exposed for one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. Her unease turned into “Ruthless,” the one-person play she will debut at Theatre Aspen’s seventh annual Solo...
Storyteller and New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik will return to Aspen on Sept. 2 and 3 for a Solo Flights Special Presentation at the Hurst Theater ahead of Theatre Aspen’s Solo Flights Festival, which runs Sept. 8 to 13. Gopnik will present two new one-hour shows...
There are few musicals as instantly recognizable as “Grease.” Before the first note, the audience already knows the songs, the leather jackets, the summer romance and nearly every lyric in the book. The challenge, then, is not to introduce the students of Rydell High but...
High school. You spend your entire childhood thinking about it and the rest of your life looking back on it. There are dozens of iconic movies about those four formative years. You can trace them through the decades — “American Graffiti,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Breakfast Club,”...
The enduring appeal of “Grease” has carried the musical across generations for more than five decades. Now, Theatre Aspen’s production, running July 31 to Aug. 29 at the Hurst Theatre, 470 Rio Grande Place, is aiming to show audiences there’s still something new to discover...