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Twin trouble
The Comedy of Errors is not exactly known for being the most intellectually rigorous member of the Shakespeare canon, even though scholars, perhaps bored with several centuries of excessive analysis of the heavyweight plays, now project layers of new meaning onto the...
From Russia with laughs
One of my high school teachers believed — decades before the advent of Avenue Q — that everyone is just a little bit racist. He claimed, therefore, that the best anyone could do was to be “actively anti-racist,” and I have always done my best to follow that credo. So...
Music in the mountains
A fierce and earthy Carmen stalks the stage at the Central City Opera this summer...
A mime speaks
Samuel Avital speaks many words about the art he has spent his entire life perfecting...
Love kills
The 54th Annual Colorado Shakespeare Festival kicked off last weekend with the ultimate tale of tragic teen love, Romeo and Juliet...
In age of new technologies, theater still endures
For 35 years, Philip Sneed has been hearing that the theater...
Two wings and a prayer
People often analogize the creative process to the reproductive one. They talk about the “labor pains” artists go through as they struggle to bring a novel piece of art into the world. They refer to “giving birth” to a new idea, painting, play or piece of music. ...
Front Range funnies
Boulder has plenty of places to drink, dance and jam — but people looking for laughs have been out of luck...
Busking on the boards
I remember the first time I saw full-on street performers plying their trade. I’m talking about jugglers, unicyclists, closeup magicians and the like — not just some shaggy hippie sitting Indian-style and strumming listlessly on a poorly tuned guitar. It was summer ...
Home on the range
It was just a few years ago that comedian and actor T.J. Miller was pounding the pavement seven days a week doing standup routines at Chicago comedy clubs and touring with comedy troupes. He was paying his dues, as most entertainers do at some point in their lives, ...
Murder with moxie
Did you know that the Longmont Theatre Company has been around for 53 years? That means that for more than the past five decades, 600 months or 18,250 days, depending on which unit of measure one prefers, the Longmont Theatre Company has been bringing theater to life...