It’s almost here, guys. This Tuesday will mark the official opening date of the national tour of one of the laugh-crackingest, award-winningest musicals in recent history — but more important, it came out of local minds. We’ve been writing about Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s The Book of Mormon since…
There’s a lot of weird shit captured for posterity on videotape. Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have been collecting it for 21 years, and touring the world sharing it under the name Found Footage Festival for the past eight. During that time, they’ve become de facto VHS historians, amassing an…
John Leo and Sophie Nimmannit met at the Boulder Fringe Festival some years ago, the story goes, and it was kismet — on both personal and professional planes. The bicoastal couple threw their fates together and created their own baby: the fringey comedy Peg-ass-us, which has been their bread-and-butter ever…
Edward Albee’s brilliant The Play About the Baby is really a play about age, life and experience. It’s mesmerizing to watch, raising all kinds of associations — comfortable and familiar, uncomfortable but still familiar — along with echoes of things you know and other things your thoughts have only touched…
Founded last year by Keith Rabin as a part of Lucent Performing Arts, Ignite Theatre is signaling great seriousness of intention, lining up an ambitious production schedule for the coming year that includes Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the Pulitzer winner about mental illness,…
Joe Wandell spent a large part of his life wondering who he was, and in his one-man show, Mekong Joe, he invites you in on the search. This isn’t one of those all too common protagonist-finding-himself stories, because Wandell’s story is anything but common. In 1976, during the U.S. withdrawal…
It’s the hottest ticket in town. The Tony award-winning The Book of Mormon opens its national tour at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House next Tuesday — creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are hometown heroes, after all — and all the seats were sold out the first day tickets went…
With all the parties and workshops and roundtables mashed-up with the shows, there are more than 350 events at this year’s Boulder International Fringe Festival, playing out in twelve days at eighteen venues. So how do you choose what to see? Fringe frontman Dave Ortolano says this year offers at…
The Laugh Track Comedy Festival had a strong debut last night at the Bug Theatre, featuring eleven local and out-of-state comics that slaughtered the audience with a blend of hyper self-loathing and irreverent politics. The festival continues through Saturday nigh, delivering a seemingly endless lazy susan of short films and…
The Laugh Track Comedy Festival will descend on Denver tonight, bringing three days of comedy performers and films that are sure to make your sides split. To help you navigate the thirty short films and over forty comedians, festival co-director Evan Nix sent us his top ten picks of events…
Brazilian music and dance are taking over Boulder for the first annual Colorado Brazil Fest, hosted by the Boulder Samba School. The three-day Brazilian culture immersion festival, from Aug. 2-4, will feature music and dance performances showcasing local talent, a variety of workshops, Capoeira demonstrations, and, of course, traditional Brazilian…
I’d almost describe Driving Miss Daisy as a courtly piece. Written in the 1980s, the play deals with racism, but in a muted, thoughtful way. There’s no big drama, no didacticism, no major political message, just an examination of the changing lives of three people in Georgia as they move…
Summer shows at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre are family-friendly events, intended to hold the wandering (and wondering) attention of children, and this year’s Cinderella is no exception. Created by Rodgers and Hammerstein for television in the 1950s, it’s charming, sweet and slight. Once again — as he did so notably for…
Claire and Emmy are fifteen, which means they’re right on the cusp: worldly and womanly in some respects — and certainly in their own minds — and confused children in others. They feel themselves wildly sophisticated as they chug down wine stolen from a parent’s liquor cabinet in Deirdre O’Connor’s…
As the long, hot summer of 2012 blazes on, the idea of Christmas in July starts to look pretty cool. But that’s not the only reason the cabaret-style Denver’s Dangerous Theatre is bringing back an abbreviated version of its, um, Christmas classic, Kentucky Claus, a slightly raunchy backwoods holiday story…
Sharing stories is possibly the saddest yet most uplifting aspect of facing public tragedy, and we’ve been hearing a lot of them in the last few days — about people who died too soon, saved lives through small acts of bravery, and whose own lives were changed forever in a…
Today Randy Weeks is president of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and executive director of Denver Center Attractions, but when he first met impresario Robert Garner in 1978, he was an undergraduate three courses shy of his marketing degree and looking for a summer box-office job. Garner, who…
The Edge Theatre Company gives the last few performances of It’s Just Sex this weekend, and the show is worth a visit. Not that the script is deep. It isn’t. But it is clever, funny and mildly titillating, and makes for perfect date-night entertainment…
Scholars have said many thoughtful things about Shakespeare’s women, but Tina Packer, who helmed the highly respected Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts for three decades, may be the best guide: She not only has the required analytic ability and the passion, but she has also inhabited these women, exploring their…
The Colorado Theatre Guild’s seventh annual Henry Awards will be presented tonight at the L2 Arts & Culture Center, 1477 Columbine Street. The festivities start at 6 p.m. with cocktails and a silent auction, followed by the official awards ceremony at 7 p.m.; an after-party will move the fun to…
In any given theatrical season, the likelihood of seeing David Mamet, Christopher Durang, or Neil Labute in the lineup is fair. The likelihood of seeing O’Neill, Miller, Beckett, Chekhov, Moliere, or (it goes without saying) Shakespeare is even better. But there is never a guarantee of seeing even one female-written…
In her standup appearances, Natasha Leggero critiques terrible pop culture while wearing evening gloves and pearls — but her witty, spot-on commentary takes the gloves off, at least figuratively. The comedian, who’s appeared on Chelsea Lately, Burning Love and Free Agents, is bringing her Servantless Household Tour to the downtown…
