Stage

Past and present

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Aaron Klass has been enthralled by the Civil War era since he was a kid. His interest in the decades surrounding the pivotal American...

Identity crisis

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One ever feels his twoness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body,...

Growing something good

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Until she toured the 152 acres of open space in Westminster bearing his name a few years ago, Amanda Berg Wilson had never heard...

Labour of love

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People live on the island of Manhattan their entire lives and never visit the Statue of Liberty. There are lifelong Arizonans who’ve never stood...

Power from within: Ghanaian CU dance teacher uses art as a...

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A few days before her African dance class presentation, University of Colorado Boulder student Jessie DePasquale’s dance partner said she wouldn’t be there. Her teacher, Nii Armah Sowah, had put DePasquale in a group with only one other person, while other groups had...

Curtain calls

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In our latest survey of the local stage, we visited Arvada, Aurora and Northglenn for two classic plays and a new take on Sherlock...

Staging the new year

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Boulder County's 2023 theater season was a mosaic of spectacular highs and poignant lows. The 66th Colorado Shakespeare Festival's King Lear, featuring the brilliant...

New kid on the block

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Theater is a lot like house hunting. At least that’s what Todd Morton, founder of the new Boulder-based theater company Happy Dagger, discovered while...

The first rule of entertainment

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Like Fight Club, entertainment has rules, and the first one is so fundamentally important it deserves to be the first two. The first rule...

Battle royale

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The worlds of sports and theater may feel distinctly separate, but Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado's upcoming production of The Royale invites audiences to...

Relieving the tension with a punchline

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As far as Joshua Emerson knows — and some moderate-but-less-than-exhaustive fact checking confirms — Charlie Hill (Oneida) is the only Native American comedian to...

Truth to power

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Despite the progress won by LGBTQ advocates in recent decades, it’s a dangerous time to be a trans person in America. This year alone,...