Stage
Relieving the tension with a punchline
As far as Joshua Emerson knows — and some moderate-but-less-than-exhaustive fact checking confirms — Charlie Hill (Oneida) is the only Native American comedian to...
A person created from words
The typewriter weighs 25 pounds, give or take a pound or two — much too heavy for a child to pick up. But Laura...
Post-pandemic ‘Pericles’
After a year of isolation and loss, nostalgia is in full swing: the re-emergence of Friends, Sex and the City, JNCO and low-rise jeans...
An Odyssey of one’s own
Think about the homecoming that is taking place right now — slowly — across the globe. We are all, in some way, returning. To...
Merry wanderer of the stage
It’s 1981 — maybe ’82 — and The Arizona Theatre Company is putting on a performance of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. The crowded...
The year of empty theaters
Everyone has a last-thing-I-did-before-the-pandemic-started memory. For me, it was seeing SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical at the Buell Theater. The coronavirus panic was starting to...
Local Theater Company gears up for season 10 with a new...
The pandemic isn’t always a destructive fire; sometimes it’s regenerative, like a wildfire clearing out debris on the forest floor.
For Local Theater Company, disaster...
Reinventing the wheel
The Catamounts had just wrapped up its largest production to-date, an immersive staging of the musical Shockheaded Peter, when the pandemic shut down Colorado in...
More than a simple sponge
Currently on stage at the Buell Theatre is a show that isn’t afraid to talk about the real issues: racism, climate change, science deniers,...
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...
No humbug here
Maybe it’s the lack of snow in the metro area? Or the dearth of Christmas lights throughout great swathes of Boulder (I’m looking at...
The first rule of entertainment
Like Fight Club, entertainment has rules, and the first one is so fundamentally important it deserves to be the first two. The first rule...
