Stage

Perusing the list of plays at this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF), a purist might be a bit nonplussed. Out of five total plays, the bard penned only two, Twelfth Night and Richard III, putting Shakespeare’s work firmly in the minority at his own festival...

Over the past 10-and-a-half years, I have seen numerous theater companies rise and fall in Boulder. While perennial favorites like Boulder’s Dinner Theatre have triumphed year in and year out, other companies have sprouted, blossomed, withered and died. Staying power...

Friday, December 27: Monty Python’s Spamalot. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303- 449-6000...

A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865- 4239. Through Dec. 28...

The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) has proven itself to be one of the best theatre companies in Boulder or, truly, anywhere. It consistently produces lively, entertaining, thought-provoking plays by a wide variety of playwrights ranging from famous to ...

Book of Mormon. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Sept. 13...

Ghost Walk Ghost Talk...

Sitting down to watch a performance of The Nutcracker whisks you off into a land of graceful ballerinas wearing intricate costumes dancing to music in the magical Land of the Sweets. As all the elements come together, it’s easy to forget the intensive labor it takes ...

I remember the first time I saw full-on street performers plying their trade. I’m talking about jugglers, unicyclists, closeup magicians and the like — not just some shaggy hippie sitting Indian-style and strumming listlessly on a poorly tuned guitar. It was summer ...

Seth Meyers is living the dream...

Going to the theatre comes with a certain level of risk, and no, I’m not referring to the extremely off chance of being steered into a life of flying rodent-themed superherodom due to the untimely murder of your parents after a performance of Die Fledermaus. Theater ...

There’s an unnamed but pervasive phenomenon widely known by literary agents, publishers and film and theater festival submissions agents that is best summarized as “early novel syndrome,” in which someone with a clear and focused talent for writing/acting/filmmaking ...