As Southern Baptist Sissies begins, a preacher is delivering a sermon while a young man comments on it: “What a crock of shit,” Mark exclaims. Having silenced the preacher, who exists only in his memory, he tells the story of four choir members — himself included — who grew up…
At Big Time, there are big chances taken. There are also live commercials for some of the freshest performances in the region, charming emcees, and a sense of something happening, really happening. Just like its parent organization, the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Big Time is dedicated to the extraordinary –…
Vintage Theatre Productions has found a new home: In April, it will move into the Dayton Street Theatre at 1468 Dayton Street in Aurora, which will be renamed Vintage Theatre. “This is an extremely exciting move for us in our tenth anniversary season,” says executive producer Debbie Laureta. “Our new…
Curious Theatre Company just announced its fifteenth season, which includes five regional premieres as well as Yasmina Reza’s Tony award-winning God of Carnage. Artistic director Chip Walton says he uses two criteria in making his selections: “I need to be moved intellectually and not just emotionally, provoked as well as…
Nerds are powerful, according to Chris Hardwick. And he should know. The self-proclaimed nerd has started a whole podcast and entertainment website based on nerdiness. He’ll bring his popular podcast, Nerdist, live to the Boulder Theater tonight complete with stand-up performances, an interview with Colorado-based astronomer Phil Plait, and a…
Charlie Murphy is returning to Denver with Charlie Murphy’s Acid Trip Tour for a three day stint at the Comedy Works in Larimer Square. Westword recently spoke with Murphy to see what he enjoys most about comedy…
Hot Lunch Apostles, a play by Boulder poet and playwright Sidney Goldfarb, will open at New York’s La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre on March 1 as part of the fabled Off-off-Broadway theater’s fifty-year celebration. Produced by the Talking Band, a collaborative group that spins evocative tapestries of words, imagery and…
The Boulder International Fringe Festival has announced its preliminary 2012 artist lineup, which includes such past fringe faves as TinHouse Experimental Dance, Gemma Wilcox Productions, Square Product Theatre and Band of Toughs, as well as a wide range of on-the-edge artists hailing from New York to San Francisco and points…
When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom…
The words “diva” and “legendary” could have been coined to describe Maria Callas, one of those fiery, imperial, larger-than-life talents who defines her art form for a generation — though critics have been divided on whether her voice was a gift from God or an essentially flawed instrument. Callas’s life…
There will be a memorial for longtime Denver critic Holly Bartges at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6 at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Street in Boulder. “We will sing, hoist a glass and talk of all things Holly,” promises Colorado Theatre Guild director Gloria Shanstrom, who notes that there…
The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company is presenting Shipwrecked! An Entertainment. The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) through February 25 at the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Juliet Wittman caught the production last weekend; here’s her review: We’re all fascinated by talented fakers. I once foolishly allowed…
The heartbreaking thing about the Denver Center Theatre Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew is just how close it comes to brilliance — and the banal reasons it falls short. This is a hard play to do well: As everyone knows, the pith of the story is the…
Miss Zoe O. has won the 2012 Queen Of Aces title, the third annual pageant and benefit put on by the Colorado Gay Volleyball Association at Hamburger Mary’s. Prior to the contest of pageantry and drag, Westword spoke with with now winner, Luke List, A.K.A. miss Zoe O. the quirky,…
Kevin Nealon is best known for his nine seasons of Saturday Night Live and his role on the hit Showtime series Weeds. But what some don’t know is that Nealon has been a steady stand-up comic throughout his career, doing bits on things like how he doesn’t actually smoke weed…
Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale, which began as a reading at the Denver Center’s New Play Summit in 2011, and was given a world premiere by the company this year — to glowing reviews (here’s mine) — has been selected by Playwrights Horizons in New York, a theater dedicated to…
Why is dance such a hard sell? There’s a stigma attached to the whole idea of beautiful, thin waifs whirling about to a different drummer under the faraway lights. Sometimes it seems like you have to drag people by the ear to go see dance — although they might just…
9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the Triangle of Death entered the nearby home of a fourteen-year-old girl named Abeer Qasim Hamza. Steven Green, a private, took her parents and six-year-old sister into…
David Mamet wrote Glengarry Glen Ross in 1984, and by now it’s just so familiar. The play is about a group of small-time salesmen peddling worthless tracts of land, all of them pathetic, creeping, conscienceless creatures, jostling for power like rats in an overcrowded cage and willing to betray anyone,…
Here’s a tempting pre-Valentine’s Day possibility: sipping wine while being serenaded by some of Denver’s best musicians and most appealing actors. Rachel Fowler, Jeff Roark, Leigh Miller, Gabriella Cavallero, Mark Rubald, Jim Ruberto and the recently married Mare Trevathan and Eryc Eyl will perform scenes, songs and poems about love…
It’s ten at night, and the Jones Theatre is thronged with bodies, and smells of beer, wine and popcorn as the Playwrights’ Slam — a regular part of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Colorado New Play Summit — is about to begin. “My woman wants your head to make a…
A relative newcomer to the drag scene, Luke List has been performing as alter-ego Zoe O. for a little more than a year — but that was long enough for him to win Charlie’s Mr. July and Man of the Year 2011. And he’s ready for Saturday night’s Queen of…
