Stage
I love Shrew-cy
If Front Range theater were baseball, the Denver Center Theatre Company would be the Major League. Walking into the Stage Theatre is like walking into a pro ballpark. The energy crackles in a way that it simply doesn’t in many smaller venues, and audience ...
When life changes course
The selection-by-lottery format of the Boulder International Fringe Festival ensures a healthy diversity of performers each year, but there are still repeat artists from year to year...
When therapy and performance collide
Audience interaction is the bread and butter of any improvisational theater — in comedic shows, even just the mention of the next game of the evening will usually invite an eruption of suggestions from an eager crowd. But for troupes like Playback Theatre West, ...
Just like real life
Have you ever seen the movie Color of Night? Starring Bruce Willis prior to his Pulp Fiction-fueled career renaissance and co-starring an almost always-naked Jane March (as well as decidedly more clothed ’90s perennials Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bakula, Brad Dourif, ...
Thespianry
Saturday, August 9: Bolder Acts Triple Header Event. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510...
Sinners and saints
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. Regardless of your preconceptions or past experiences, I can’t encourage ...
Heart and soul
Next to “Chopsticks,” “Heart and Soul” is probably the most recognizable and easily played piano tune in the Western world. You may remember it from its appearance in the movie Big when Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia danced it on the giant keyboard in the Manhattan FAO ...
Washing off the dust of daily life
As the Hershey Company so sagaciously observed, sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don’t. Hershey may have been commenting solely on the relative, momentary gastronomic worth of an Almond Joy versus a Mounds, but the philosophical underpinnings of the ...
Taming of the bard
When you’re putting on a production of a classic play — already performed thousands of times — by a canonical playwright like Shakespeare, the devil’s in the details of the adaptation. For this summer’s production of King Lear by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (...
The king’s speeches
The plays of William Shakespeare (not to be confused with the plays of Paco “Shaky” Shakespeare of Walla Walla) fall into four categories: comedies, tragedies, histories and problem plays — and yes, for the more bookish out there I am rolling the romances into the ...
