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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. Regardless of your preconceptions or past experiences, I can’t encourage ...

Next to “Chopsticks,” “Heart and Soul” is probably the most recognizable and easily played piano tune in the Western world. You may remember it from its appearance in the movie Big when Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia danced it on the giant keyboard in the Manhattan FAO ...

As the Hershey Company so sagaciously observed, sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don’t. Hershey may have been commenting solely on the relative, momentary gastronomic worth of an Almond Joy versus a Mounds, but the philosophical underpinnings of the ...

The selection-by-lottery format of the Boulder International Fringe Festival ensures a healthy diversity of performers each year, but there are still repeat artists from year to year...

The plays of William Shakespeare (not to be confused with the plays of Paco “Shaky” Shakespeare of Walla Walla) fall into four categories: comedies, tragedies, histories and problem plays — and yes, for the more bookish out there I am rolling the romances into the ...

Thursday, June 26: Maria Bamford with Jackie Kashian. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theatre, 2032 14th Street, Boulder, 303-786-7030...

Plutonium: Permanent Problem at Rocky Flats...

The word tribe has many connotations: family, community, belonging, an entity you’re initiated or born into. But inclusion doesn’t guarantee the perfect fit...

Though I’ve 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. It’s not that I’ve avoided them in any way; it’s simply that these plays have not been produced with ...

It’s unclear exactly what stood out in Michelle Ellsworth’s repertoire. There’s a lot to choose from...

Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw isn’t informed so much by the question “Is it better to lie than to hurt someone with the truth?” but rather by the statement, “Life is pain; lies and truth are mere tools to help one salve that pain.” Curious Theatre Company’s regional ...

To quote Public Enemy, “Don’t believe the hype.” To paraphrase the Dead Milkmen, I’m not saying that The Other Place isn’t a good play. It’s a fine play, an all-American play full of good, upstanding people. It’s just that it, like the residents of the trailer park ...