John Elway walks into a bar. The bartender asks, Why the long face? No wait. I mean, a horse walks into a bar, and the bartender asks, Whatll you have, Mr. Elway? Nope, thats still not it. Lets see.

As mentioned above, the inimitable Sam Gregory plays Hannay. Every other character comes to life thanks to Victoria Mack, Rob Nagle and Larry Paulsen. (You might guess that Mack is charged with acting every female character, but both Nagle and Paulsen get bewigged and bebosommed as well.

The dog days of summer have clamped their jaws around our quiet, little, white-bread, mountain-adjacent town, and that means its time once again for the Boulder International Fringe Festival, a celebration of art showcasing productions and performances that might not otherwise see the light of day.

I never thought that I would write a play about healing from sexual abuse, but as I was driving to Winnipeg to perform another play, scenes for just such a play kept popping in my head. I pushed them away and told myself that if I get into the Victoria Fringe Festival, then I will write that play. I knew this was safe because I was far down on the waiting list for that festival. Twenty minutes later, I checked my messages and there was a call from the Victoria Festival that I had gotten in.

Gathering some 35,000 people from a half dozen Western states on a huge tract of land in Longmont and presenting 70 of the best contemporary Christian musical acts on seven stages, Heaven Fest 2010 seemed to offer many of the same features you'd...

Though Ive been a theatre lover since I was a child and a theatre critic for the better part of a decade, there remain some seminal productions I have never seen.

You may not consider yourself a theater person. You may be one of the many who feel a twinge of actual fear when contemplating reading or even just seeing a work by William Shakespeare.

As written, our shrew, Kate (Karyn Casl), is for most of the play a terrifying harpy, her every word and action full of venom and spite.

You have to figure out where to place the band on the stage, how to coordinate rehearsals between the band and the ensemble. Musicals are simply more complicated far more so than plays. And while the Colorado Shakespeare Festival has impressively performed Shakespeare for decades, after seeing their rendition of Tom Jones The Fantasticks,.

Now in its 53rd season, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival assembles actors and directors from all over the country right here in Boulder to bring both Shakespeares and other playwrights works to the stage. Three of the five productions this year play in the amazing Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre at the University of Colorado.