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Putting on a play is one complicated proposition. Think about how difficult it is to coordinate with a small handful of your friends for a Saturday night jaunt to Pearl Street or (gasp!) Denver and you immediately get the idea. A director must choose a play, and ...

Do you enjoy plays or musicals (Sure, we all do!) but can never convince your husband, wife, lover, son, daughter, friend, co-worker or mail delivery person to join you for a show? Well, if that husband, wife, lover, son, daughter, friend, co-worker or mail delivery ...

Mere weeks ago candles glowed warmly in menorahs. Christmas lights twinkled on eaves and living room trees. The riotous colors of Kwanzaa accompanied the celebration of Umoja and Kuumba. Children from 1 to 92 smiled wide at unexpected presents. Families rejoiced with...

It’s been 10 months since I last reviewed a show at the Miners Alley Playhouse in downtown Golden. Unlike Courtney Love or the majority of the Baldwin brothers, time has been kind to Miners Alley...

The Denver Center Theatre Company kicks off the holiday season with a subversive bit of Christmastime counter-programming. Reckless, by Craig Lucas, is a snow-covered fever dream full of manic energy that stubbornly refuses to adhere to classical theatrical or ...

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If you’re going to talk about everything from tampons to the Taliban and expect to get a laugh out of it, you’re going to need a lot of balls — or broads...

John Elway walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “Why the long face?” No wait. I mean, a horse walks into a bar, and the bartender asks, “What’ll you have, Mr. Elway?” Nope, that’s still not it. Let’s see. Sarah Jessica Parker walks into a bar, and the bartender says...

 After seeing The 39 Steps at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, I tried to recall all of the Hitchcock references the show contained. I counted no fewer than seven, and I’m almost certain I missed at least a handful more. Then, at the same moment that I was ...

  The dog days of summer have clamped their jaws around our quiet, little, white-bread, mountain-adjacent town, and that means it’s time once again for the Boulder International Fringe Festival, a celebration of art showcasing productions and performances that might ...

I never thought that I would write a play about healing from sexual abuse, but as I was driving to Winnipeg to perform another play, scenes for just such a play kept popping in my head. I pushed them away and told myself that if I get into the Victoria Fringe ...

Gathering some 35,000 people from a half dozen Western states on a huge tract of land in Longmont and presenting 70 of the best contemporary Christian musical acts on seven stages, Heaven Fest 2010 seemed to offer many of the same features you’d find in just about ...