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Theater | Week of June 19, 2014
Peggy Jo & the Desolate Nothing. square product theatre, with Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver, 720-946-1388. Through June 21...
Dead ringer
If you’re looking for top-tier theatrical entertainment, Louisville’s Coal Creek Theater makes a compelling case for skipping the trip to Denver and attending a...
Funny in a ‘foreign’ language
It’s no great secret that being a woman in a leadership position comes with many unfair challenges — and for women of color, those...
Musical anarchy
Emma Goldman’s name was once synonymous with anarchy, free love and violence. In the first decades of the 20th century, she gave speeches to crowds of up to 25,000 with titles like “Monogamy or variety, which?” One of her talks supposedly inspired the assassination ...
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...
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 ...
Theater | Week of Dec. 10, 2015
A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865- 4239. Through Dec. 27...
Rhythms of resilience
When the spotlight hits the stage at the Dairy Arts Center’s Grace Gamm Theatre this April, it’ll reveal more than just a set. It...
LOCAL Lab: a participatory theater festival
Writing a play is courageous and I really mean that,” says Pesha Rudnick, co-founder and artistic director of Local Theater Company. “Writing is one...
This is really about that
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company is wrapping up its eighth season and true to its reputation for producing regional and world premieres of new plays, it’s currently presenting the regional premiere of Melissa James Gibson’s This, in the Carson Space at The Dairy ...
Philately attraction
Did you know that Mauritius is a tiny island just east of Madagascar? Neither did I. That Mauritius was the sole, native home of the now extinct Dodo bird, and that Mauritius was only the fifth country ever to issue postage stamps, were also facts that had, until now...
