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…
Fat people are an entertainment staple these days, from The Biggest Loser to the Food Network’s new offering, Fat Chef. Still, you wouldn’t really expect a play about a 600-pound man slowly dying in his own living room to garner a whole lot of attention, especially when it’s textured and…
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…
What is it that makes us find Victorian murders so juicy, fascinating and macabre? And also so irresistibly funny? Is it the formal outfits, the contrast between butchery and Victorian prudery, the era’s fascination with death and the supernatural, or just the passage of time? With The Three Faces of…
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. — Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest has been such a staple for so many years, multiply staged and filmed with a host of legendary acting talents, that anyone mounting it now faces a dilemma: How do you make…
What is it that makes us find Victorian murders so juicy, fascinating and macabre? And also so irresistibly funny? The Catamounts, a relatively new company, has resurrected yet another Victorian murder story with The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen; judging by this lively, cheeky production, the company will be a…
It opened with a differently-abled World of Warcraft avatar and ended with fat-kid pedophilia, and there was an impressive amount of homeless people in between. Needless to say, then, the Funny Final Four at Comedy Works downtown got off to an excellent start last night. And if nothing else, this…
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…
The Israel-Palestine conflict has spawned furious arguments among friends and families at many a Jewish dinner table — even with guests who agree about almost everything else political. You’ll find hardcore Zionists who call the entire area Judea/Samaria and insist that every inch of it belongs to the Jews, others…
If you’ve always wanted to be part of the two week riot of performance that constitutes the Boulder Fringe Festival, you need to get your application in before 11:59 p.m. on Monday, January 30. The festival — organized in the anarchic spirit of Fringe Festivals all over the world –…
