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Mood Indigo, opening this Friday at the Landmark Chez Artiste in Denver, is the latest from French writer/director Michel Gondry, a crafter of handmade fairy tales and whimsical nightmares best known for his 2004 sci-fi break-up drama, Eternal Sunshine of the ...

Over the past few weeks, America's football season once again kicked off. As is the annual custom, fans of college football engaged fans of professional football in the ageless, spirited debate about which version of the sport deserves higher praise. College football...

After months of deliberation, the final plays have been chosen for this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival, bringing together top theater directors to put on shows that will last throughout the summer months...

Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing a few people from the area of South Boston known as Southies. To a one, they have fit the Southie stereotype: No-nonsense, hard working, loud, proud and — sometimes — rude and crude. Most were Irish, and one even ...

 After seeing The 39 Steps at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, I tried to recall all of the Hitchcock references the show contained. I counted no fewer than seven, and I’m almost certain I missed at least a handful more. Then, at the same moment that I was ...

The Denver Center Theatre Company kicks off the holiday season with a subversive bit of Christmastime counter-programming. Reckless, by Craig Lucas, is a snow-covered fever dream full of manic energy that stubbornly refuses to adhere to classical theatrical or ...

’Twas  the week before Christmas, and all through the town, some people were up while others were down. Some loved the snow and the cold  and the lights; some felt the whole thing just wasn’t right. Whether this time of year makes you joyful or crass, the holidays ...

Back in the aughts, the Bug Theatre Company consistently produced exciting, affecting theatre of a kind not commonly seen elsewhere. Its hauntingly beautiful 2003 production of Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues brought tears to my eyes. Its take on David Sedaris’ ...

Jad Abumrad, host of NPR’s Radiolab, doesn’t know exactly when it happened. Maybe it was as the show started climbing the podcast charts, maybe it was when it won a Peabody, or maybe it was around the time he was personally awarded a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” but he ...

When is a meditation really an illustration? Though I don’t believe playwright Anthony Clarvoe or the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) set out to answer, or necessarily even pose, that question with Ambition Facing West, BETC’s production of this award-winning...

The world has turned all red and green. Every kid is on his or her best behavior. Christmas tree lots are springing up like mushrooms after a hard rain and lights are twinkling on houses and businesses all over town. Love it or loathe it, the holidays are officially ...

Ham McBeth — presented by Square Product Theatre...