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Animal Farm. Germinal Stage’s new theater — only a few miles from the one the company left last year, and even smaller — is cozy, welcoming and workable. Walking in feels a bit like entering a time warp. The Germinal faithful, along with a few young initiates, throng the lobby,…

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Animal Farm. Germinal Stage’s new theater — only a few miles from the one the company left last year, and even smaller — is cozy, welcoming and workable. Walking in feels a bit like entering a time warp. The Germinal faithful, along with a few young initiates, throng the lobby,…

Review: A Steady Rain Tells the Timely Tale of a Rogue Cop

The public is becoming more and more aware of the dangerous power wielded by the nation’s police. We’re learning that as cops charge into civilian neighborhoods, they’re armed with equipment developed for military combat — and few of them have the training to handle such equipment. With the explosion of…

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Mack & Mabel. Mack & Mabel has a brilliant score and a piss-poor book. The musical purports to tell the story of the confused and conflicted love between Mack Sennett, impresario of the early comic silent movies, and Mabel Normand, the young woman he discovered and made a star. The…

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On Golden Pond. As this play opens, Norman and Ethel Thayer are moving back into their summer house in Maine. Every summer for 48 years, he’s come here to fish and she to putter around, read, gather strawberries. This, their last visit, represents a slow, gentle fading. There’s just a…

Jamie Ann Romero Exits Denver for the Bright Lights of New York City

Every now and then, you realize you’re watching a genuine star. Not just a very good, emotionally generous actor who makes intellectually interesting choices, but someone possessed of a quality that goes beyond that, a performer you’d happily watch in the dumbest and most boring show imaginable. This happened to…

Boulder Farmers’ Market expands — and Tungsten Toffee Is There

At the Boulder Farmers’ Market Saturday, Mary Curcio is sitting in front of a table containing boxes of her delicious Tungsten Toffee. She’s not usually at the market on Saturdays, but this Saturday is different. The Boulder Farmers’ Market has expanded its reach, pushing one block north into One Boulder…

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On Golden Pond. As this play opens, Norman and Ethel Thayer are moving back into their summer house in Maine. Every summer for 48 years, he’s come here to fish and she to putter around, read, gather strawberries. This, their last visit, represents a slow, gentle fading. There’s just a…

Mack & Mabel: The Script Bores, but the Music Soars

Mack & Mabel purports to tell the story of the confused and conflicted love between Mack Sennett, impresario of the early comic silent movies, and Mabel Normand, the young woman he discovered and made a star. I’d read that the musical has a brilliant score and a piss-poor book, and…

Actor Cajardo Lindsey on Ferguson, the law and his own dramatic story

“Playing Ogun, Cajardo Lindsey towers over the evening, terrifying in his anger, heartbreaking in his grief, and sometimes — like the play itself — wonderfully and unexpectedly funny.” Westword review of The Brothers Size at Curious Theatre, for which Lindsey received a 2014 Best of Denver award. Denver theatergoers know…

Ignite Theatre’s Rent Has Room to Grow

The audience for Ignite Theatre’s Rent is large, boisterous, young, and deeply involved with the action. Throughout the evening, you hear hoots of appreciative laughter, empathetic breath intakes and murmurs, audible sniffles at the sad parts. This enthusiasm is matched by the enthusiasm on stage, the actors singing their hearts…

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The Odd Couple. There’s not a lot of nourishment in Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, which has been around since the mid-1960s, but the central pairing of two very different men who find themselves sharing an apartment, and the humorous way their fights and misunderstandings mirror those of regular marriage…

The Right Note

There are several reasons to see Phamaly’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Denver Center. To begin with, the musicals staged by this company of physically handicapped actors and skillfully directed by Steve Wilson are always a delight, and musical director Donna Debreceni adds her whiz-bang irresistible spirit…

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Henry IV, Part 1. King Henry IV gained the throne by deposing his predecessor, Richard II, and having him murdered, and in Henry IV, Part 1, the crown lies uneasily on his head. Men who aided his insurgency have turned against him, and there’s rebellion brewing throughout the kingdom. Worst…

Review: On Golden Pond misses a golden opportunity at the Barth

It’s always a treat to attend a play in the antique and elegant lobby of the Barth Hotel, one of fourteen residences maintained for elderly and disabled people by the nonprofit Senior Housing Options. In the past, the money from these annual fundraisers has been used to provide emergency kits…

The Odd Couple is a good match for Miners Alley

There’s not a lot of nourishment in Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, which premiered on Broadway in 1965, spawned a film and television show, and is now showing at Miners Alley. But the central pairing of two very different men who find themselves sharing an apartment, and the humorous way…

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Henry IV, Part 1. King Henry IV gained the throne by deposing his predecessor, Richard II, and having him murdered, and in Henry IV, Part 1, the crown lies uneasily on his head. Men who aided his insurgency have turned against him, and there’s rebellion brewing throughout the kingdom. Worst…