Stage
‘Newsies’ reminds us that change is possible
"Just because we only make pennies don’t give anyone the right to up and rub our noses in it,” says a frustrated newsboy in...
Amazing, what baking can do
A good baker knows the right ingredients are sacred. When waitress Jenna Hunterson gets asked what’s inside her famous pies, the answer isn’t so easy.
“Everyone...
ABBAcadabra
Calling something that’s as awesomely desirable as it is difficult to find a “unicorn” is currently in vogue. Wall Street types call low-risk, high-reward...
Jesters Dinner Theatre set to close at end of May
After more than 22 years of producing shows in Longmont, Jesters Dinner Theatre will close at the end of May, according to emails from...
‘So long, farewell’
When the news broke last June that Boulder Dinner Theatre (BDT Stage) owners Gene and Judy Bolles had sold their building on 5501 Arapahoe...
The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias
It has become increasingly obvious that we all, in one way or another, are shaped by a culture of rape. Last week, thousands of...
Lessons in leaving
For more than a decade, we’ve been able to make little stops by this small, fictional town of Holt, out on the eastern plains of Colorado. We were first delivered there in Plainsong, the 1999 novel about two aging brothers, cattle ranchers who take in a pregnant, ...
The dead won’t die
American playwright Irwin Shaw’s 1936 anti-war play Bury the Dead was a prescient foreshadowing of World War II. It pointed out the absurdity of...
Phishing for love
It’s no secret that the love affair between Boulder and jam bands is central to the cultural landscape here. But with Topher Payne’s You...
Go, go, go, Joseph
One disadvantage of being a theater lover in Colorado is the lack of access to shows. To expand a personal repertoire of live performances,...
Sing it loud
Like her idol Linda Ronstadt, the genre-hopping music legend who has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, GerRee Hinshaw wants to share her...
Queering ‘The Crucible’
Earlier this year, the administration at Cedar Grove High School in New Jersey attempted to cancel the school's production of the queer musical The...