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It was the cat rapist in the solarium with the enema...
In the “About the Show” section for Delirium Tremens on the Bump in the Night Entertainment website, the production company — presumably via playwright Rhett Jonke — admits that the classic murder mystery format is, by its very definition, contrived, and challenges ...
Boulder Ensemble’s latest is ‘Survivor: Leipzig’
After the rather lackluster The Other Place, the usually metronomically reliable Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) comes back strong with Bach at Leipzig. If you enjoyed the movie Amadeus — and if you haven’t seen that film I can’t recommend it enough — you’ll ...
When therapy and performance collide
Audience interaction is the bread and butter of any improvisational theater — in comedic shows, even just the mention of the next game of the evening will usually invite an eruption of suggestions from an eager crowd. But for troupes like Playback Theatre West, ...
Praise the Lord and pass the lefse
Even if you are a Dawkins-lovin’, God-mockin’, card-carryin’ atheist, the odds are that during your youth you spent some time in and around a church or synagogue. Be you current or lapsed Catholic, Protestant, Lutheran, Methodist, Jew or any other God-fearing flavor...
It’s time to get real
A date takes a wrong turn and ends up in an orgy; someone spontaneously kisses a cab driver with irresistible eyes; McDonald’s serves as the backdrop for a break up; a guy decides he’d rather stay single than fall in love with a girl named Aphrodite...
A drama in thriller drag
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 ...
Power from within: Ghanaian CU dance teacher uses art as a...
A few days before her African dance class presentation, University of Colorado Boulder student Jessie DePasquale’s dance partner said she wouldn’t be there. Her teacher, Nii Armah Sowah, had put DePasquale in a group with only one other person, while other groups had...
Budgeting the Bard
The past dozen years have been rough on the Colorado Shakespeare Festival...
Walking in the whimsy wonderland of ‘Almost, Maine’
Love. It’s life’s sweetest reward. If you let it flow, it floats back to you. Love can be exciting. It can be new. And if you get on board with love, it might even be expecting you. You could be the captain of your own ship or just someone else’s gopher. Your broken ...
A clockwork beige for Boulder’s Catamounts
If you’ve seen even a small handful of movie commercials over the past decade or so, your mind’s ear will immediately recall the intense, slightly gravelly voice I’m referring to when I ask you to imagine an ad that starts, “In a world where mutants run the surface ...
As leadership changes, questions arise about Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s future
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is one of those Boulder institutions that, like the genre it celebrates, seems like it’s been around forever. Though longevity has its place, could a series of present troubles threaten the CSF’s future...
Wherever you go, there you are
Into every theater company, a little failure must fall. Now in its 15th season, the Curious Theatre Company has consistently impressed me and thousands of other theater-goers with its choices of plays and executions thereof. See any three Curious offerings in a given...
