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Comedy’s one of the world’s great equal opportunity employers. It doesn’t matter what you look like, your age, socio-economic status or background. Gay, redneck, Asian, woman (or all four!) — humor not only reaches across the boundaries that separate us, it pulls...

It’s not often that one has the opportunity to see psychological horror played out on stage. Pratfalls and buffoonery abound. Studies in tragedy crop up weekly. Musical theater is so prevalent that it has become its own sub-genre. But plays devoted to the terrors ...

You don’t have to look much beyond the title of comedian Kate Clinton’s latest show to get her take on the state of the world. In “All Fracked Up,” Clinton cranks through woes of the modern world like fracking (of course), global weirding and Republicans...

A few weeks ago, our government gave us yet another compelling reason not to trust it when its purchasing arm, the General Services Administration (GSA), was found to have been lavishly spending taxpayer money with less care than Ozzie Guillen has for public opinion...

Emma Goldman’s name was once synonymous with anarchy, free love and violence. In the first decades of the 20th century, she gave speeches to crowds of up to 25,000 with titles like “Monogamy or variety, which?” One of her talks supposedly inspired the assassination ...

Imagine if, by some twist of fate, Brad Pitt accepted an invitation to dinner at your home some wintry evening. Further imagine that as Mr. Pitt was reaching for your doorbell he slipped on a patch of ice and broke his hip...

Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw isn’t informed so much by the question “Is it better to lie than to hurt someone with the truth?” but rather by the statement, “Life is pain; lies and truth are mere tools to help one salve that pain.” Curious Theatre Company’s regional ...

Two years ago, performance poet Sonya Rene Taylor was chatting with a friend who was having an issue in the bedroom. Her friend had cerebral palsy, and she felt awkward asking her partner for the special attention she needed because of her disability...

With Boulder’s fixation on eco-friendly products, gluten-free food and meditation, it’s no surprise that some comedians find Boulder to be a goldmine of material.“I do this bit about the Whole Foods parking lot, and how everyone in Boulder is so good and they ...

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 ...

The Vagina Monologues are not for the squeamish. During the annual performance at the University of Colorado Boulder you’ll see women rip the covers off and lay bare the wondrous mysteries of an oft-ignored region...

Put the name of Quebec billionaire Guy Laliberté, the mercurial founder of Cirque du Soleil, into YouTube, and the first result isn’t circus-related but a six-and-a-half-minute clip from a high-stakes game of Texas Hold ’em...