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...THEATER Denver's gritty musical of They Shoot Horses...
...WHERE: DENVER CENTER THEATER...
...more about glistening facilities than about what goes on inside them. Second, the regional houses have been loath to risk developing new plays and, even more, new musicals. Third, at many of them the acting is mainly mediocre. A seeming example of the first and third shortcomings is the Denver Center Theater. The four-stage complex is as impressive an array of arts buildings as can be found short of New York City or Los Angeles, but the resident company is sometimes plain embarrassing...
When it comes to new works, however, hardly a troupe in America has so rich a record. Denver has sent Quilters to Broadway, Hyde in Hollywood to American Playhouse on PBS, and Circe and Bravo and Veterans Day to London's West End, among others. At the moment, the troupe has four full-scale premieres on its stages, and next month brings staged readings of eight more...
Rufo fumes when he hears the new environs derided as "glamour slammers," as they are by critics who argue that it is politically unwise to make convicts so comfortable. Explains Denver-based criminal-justice consultant Ray Nelson: "Carpeting on the floors, ceramic rather than steel toilets, coordinated uniforms, wooden cell doors are all cost-effective. Besides, amenities send a message of expectation of behavior, a message that works." Included in the concept is another reversal of conventional wisdom: a stretch in jail may actually rehabilitate. So convinced is Rufo that literacy training can reduce recidivism that he shepherded...