By Toni Tresca - Jul. 10, 2025

A bloody mess

Breaking news: New York City has exported its trash to Boulder. Not in bags—on stage.  That garbage is Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw, now running at the...

By Toni Tresca - Jul. 2, 2025

Juggle and flow

Down a dirt road in rural North Boulder, jugglers gather every week at the Boulder Circus Center for a few hours of catching, dropping and camaraderie. Clubs arc through the...

By Toni Tresca - May 28, 2025

‘Bright Star’ burns bright

When you find yourself at a dinner theater sitting next to two people who’ve seen the same musical three times, you pay attention. That was the case during Bright Star...

By Toni Tresca - May 21, 2025

Erasing the arts

Trump’s NEA freeze disrupts Boulder’s cultural ecosystem and sparks a deeper reckoning

By Toni Tresca - May 14, 2025

Reframing the frontier

Rather than reinforcing familiar images of cowboys or conquest, Go West aims to reframe the frontier as a site of convergence.

By Toni Tresca - May 7, 2025

Roleplay revolution

Rabbit Hole recently opened the country's first dedicated Jubensha venue: Studio 五

By Toni Tresca - Apr. 23, 2025

Page to stage

Local Lab 14 brings three original new plays to life at Boulder’s Nomad Playhouse

By Toni Tresca - Apr. 9, 2025

Stories and strings

Musical collab invites empathy for immigrants

By Toni Tresca - Mar. 26, 2025

Bending toward justice

New local history exhibit explores ‘a uniquely Boulder story of LGBTQ+ rights’

By Toni Tresca - Mar. 19, 2025

Breaking the bubble

Podcast sparks tough conversations about race in Boulder and beyond

By Toni Tresca - Mar. 4, 2025

Behind the wallpaper

Longmont author Jon Bassoff blurs the line between reality and madness in new novel

By Toni Tresca - Feb. 19, 2025

Toilet humor

“We are saying, ‘We are here, and we’re going to be over there, too, even in places that say they don’t want us,’”

By Toni Tresca - Jan. 2, 2025

Curtain up: Your guide to local theater in 2025

A quick rundown on what’s coming to a stage near you in the new year.

By Toni Tresca - Nov. 25, 2024

Missed connections

An audacious challenge lies at the heart of Curious Theatre Company’s regional premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s Confederates: connecting the lives of an enslaved woman in the Antebellum South and a...

By Toni Tresca - Nov. 13, 2024

The crappening

Buntport Theater’s new play is a delightfully disgusting dive into Chicago’s messiest moment

By Toni Tresca - Oct. 30, 2024

Fangs out

Despite a meandering script, Arvada Center’s ‘Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy’ is bloody fun

By Toni Tresca - Oct. 8, 2024

Fan service

‘Always… Patsy Cline’ is a lively but lackluster jukebox tribute to a country legend 

By Toni Tresca - Sep. 25, 2024

Native roots

Indigenous playwrights explore tribal life at First Storyteller’s Festival

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