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Valentine’s Day weekend in nether-land
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...
In the heart of Cirque du Soleil
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...
Curiouser about Curious
About 10,000 playwrights live and work in the country, but in the past 10 years, there have been an average of two new plays produced on Broadway each year, according to Jason Loewith, executive director of the National New Play Network. The task of finding new ...
Inside the heads of circus performers
A typical Cirque du Soleil show is a long way from the “Greatest Show on Earth” of the early 1900s...
Haunting harmonies
What is your first thought when you hear the phrase “the phantom of the opera?” Unless you’re an unabashed bibliophile or literary-minded Francophile, it’s almost certainly not the novel, Le Fantome de l’Opera, written by Gaston Leroux in 1910. Still, that early 20th...
If you can’t dance, don’t sit it out
Forty years ago at Dartmouth College, it wasn’t “those who can’t dance, teach.” It was those who can’t dance, reinvent the medium itself...
Creative co-operation
What do you get when you mix Marxists, socialists and communists? A cooperative housing unit in the heart of Boulder known as Chrysalis. And what happens at coops after the collective gardening and cooking and cleaning gets done? Pure, enchanted creativity...
A double dose of holiday hilarity
’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 ...
Local performance artist honored
It’s unclear exactly what stood out in Michelle Ellsworth’s repertoire. There’s a lot to choose from...
Boulder dancer, professor receives $50,000 grant
Considering how many hats she wears, it’s unclear exactly...
A thriller in the second degree
Experiencing a theater company for the first time is very much like going on a blind date. High hopes compete with trepidation. The possibilities are limitless. You might discover your soul mate, or you could end up with a hefty tab and a nasty case of crabs. ...
Sight, sound, mind and mirth
Halloween is but a few scant days away, and whether you celebrate it as Samhain, All- Hallows-Eve or the Feast of Heedless Inebriation, it’s time to get ghouly, ghostly and ghastly once again...
