Propelled by an early, out-of-rightfield plot development too tasty to spoil here, thoroughly domestic and utterly middle-American house frau Rachel ( Julia Motyka) finds herself on the run on Christmas Eve.

Its life and the news and just being a woman traveling around the planet, Goodman says. Weve written things about the Taliban, just everything, Not everything is for every audience, however, Goodman says.

Conor O'Neill's regularly offers an open mic on Tuesday nights, Catacombs hosts one on Thursday nights, and a new weekly poetry reading is currently in the works at Tonic, with similar showcases offered throughout the year at the No-Name Bar on the Hill, the Boulder Bookstore and on the CU campus.

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, Whatll you have, Mr. Elway? Nope, thats still not it. Lets see.

As mentioned above, the inimitable Sam Gregory plays Hannay. Every other character comes to life thanks to Victoria Mack, Rob Nagle and Larry Paulsen. (You might guess that Mack is charged with acting every female character, but both Nagle and Paulsen get bewigged and bebosommed as well.

The dog days of summer have clamped their jaws around our quiet, little, white-bread, mountain-adjacent town, and that means its time once again for the Boulder International Fringe Festival, a celebration of art showcasing productions and performances that might not otherwise see the light of day.

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 Festival, then I will write that play. I knew this was safe because I was far down on the waiting list for that festival. Twenty minutes later, I checked my messages and there was a call from the Victoria Festival that I had gotten in.

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...

Though Ive been a theatre lover since I was a child and a theatre critic for the better part of a decade, there remain some seminal productions I have never seen.

You may not consider yourself a theater person. You may be one of the many who feel a twinge of actual fear when contemplating reading or even just seeing a work by William Shakespeare.