Hal Holbrook returns to Denver on Saturday in his most famous guise … that of author and humorist Mark Twain.
This is Holbrook’s 56th year of playing the cigar-chomping humorist, making “Mark Twain Tonight!” one of the longest-running shows in theater history.
The one-man, one-night-only act is an evening of Holbrook, 84, delivering Twain witticisms. Holbrook changes his piece once a year, picking from 12 hours of total material that is most resonant with the current state of the world.
He’s returning to Denver on Saturday, less than two months after losing his wife of 27 years, TV star Dixie Carter, to uterine cancer.
Holbrook can’t light up Twain’s famous cigar here because of the statewide smoking ban. Last time through, Holbrook commented on the ban by saying, “There will always be people worried about their health . . . and people who will worry about it for them.”
Starts at 7 p.m. at the Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets. Tickets $25-$55. 303-893-4100 or .
Hal Holbrook talks with Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy about his last film with late wife Dixie Carter, “That Evening Sun.”
