Tomorrow night, Buntport Theater will open a new show, inspired by a true event, called Tommy Lee Jones Goes to Opera Alone. But the title belies the community effort it took for Buntport to produce and animate a nearly life-size puppet of the solitary actor…
Naropa grad Seth Lepore will bring his newest one-man show, SuperHappyMelancholyexpialidocious, to Boulder this weekend. The new show targets the happiness movement, humorously critiquing everything from Oprah Winfrey to those Texas megachurches that all insist we need to be constantly chipper. We recently spoke with Lepore about the happiness movement,…
The role of the Man in the Chair is the spine for The Drowsy Chaperone, and it’s the primary reason that this lighthearted, inconsequential and very silly show is so much fun to watch: Without him, it would just float off into the ether. But with him, we’re invited in…
The root of theater is storytelling, and Stories on Stage has made a practice of matching expressive words with talented actors for many years. The March 11 offering, Distant Voices, features Sherman Alexie’s short story “War Dances,” about a young man afflicted with a mysterious partial deafness who’s visiting his…
Wanda Sykes is a writer, actress, voice artist, activist and standup comedienne extraordinaire — and crazy enough to talk to Westword. Her career is as epic as her personality, and she has no problem saying exactly what’s on her mind — whether it be salty, spicy or sweet. Since she’s…
Paragon Theatre Ensemble will close permanently on March 18, following the end of its run of Miss Julie — only weeks after celebrating the opening of the same show in its brand-new space. A series of expensive code violations led to the ultimate decision to not just shutter that space…
Because I grew up in a time when we listened to music by the album side, the idea of the rock musical — essentially a string of related songs hung loosely over a plot — is easy for me to accept. Still, you have to wonder, as I did while…
For being a “show about nothing,” Seinfeld was a very big something during its glory days on NBC. Tonight at 8 p.m., join Geeks Who Drink, the nationally known bar-quiz crew, at Three Lions Pub for The Contest: The Third Annual Seinfeld Quiz, a night of Seinfeld trivia. Geeks Who…
Denver Center Theatre Company Artistic Director Kent Thompson has chosen his 2012-13 lineup. It contains some safe choices, some doubtless designed to appeal to high schoolers, the requisite Christmas show (not A Christmas Carol this time, but White Christmas), two scripts selected from this year’s New Play Summit — and…
Juliet Wittman raved about Miss Julie, Paragon Theatre’s opening production in its brand-new home, a specially constructed black-box theater. As it turns out, this will also be Paragon’s last production…ever…
Want to see The Book of Mormon? The touring show’s Denver dates in August are officially sold out, with tickets going for astronomical amounts on the web. At this point, your best bet might be to fly to New York (Jet Blue has a one-day sale today), then get in…
Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day managed to knock the socks off more than a few listeners when they released the song cycle American Idiot on CD in 2004. But at the time, no one could have imagined the ruckus a stage version would eventually make on Broadway. A fabulous…
As Southern Baptist Sissies begins, a preacher is delivering a sermon while a young man comments on it: “What a crock of shit,” Mark exclaims. Having silenced the preacher, who exists only in his memory, he tells the story of four choir members — himself included — who grew up…
At Big Time, there are big chances taken. There are also live commercials for some of the freshest performances in the region, charming emcees, and a sense of something happening, really happening. Just like its parent organization, the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Big Time is dedicated to the extraordinary –…
Vintage Theatre Productions has found a new home: In April, it will move into the Dayton Street Theatre at 1468 Dayton Street in Aurora, which will be renamed Vintage Theatre. “This is an extremely exciting move for us in our tenth anniversary season,” says executive producer Debbie Laureta. “Our new…
Curious Theatre Company just announced its fifteenth season, which includes five regional premieres as well as Yasmina Reza’s Tony award-winning God of Carnage. Artistic director Chip Walton says he uses two criteria in making his selections: “I need to be moved intellectually and not just emotionally, provoked as well as…
Nerds are powerful, according to Chris Hardwick. And he should know. The self-proclaimed nerd has started a whole podcast and entertainment website based on nerdiness. He’ll bring his popular podcast, Nerdist, live to the Boulder Theater tonight complete with stand-up performances, an interview with Colorado-based astronomer Phil Plait, and a…
Charlie Murphy is returning to Denver with Charlie Murphy’s Acid Trip Tour for a three day stint at the Comedy Works in Larimer Square. Westword recently spoke with Murphy to see what he enjoys most about comedy…
Hot Lunch Apostles, a play by Boulder poet and playwright Sidney Goldfarb, will open at New York’s La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre on March 1 as part of the fabled Off-off-Broadway theater’s fifty-year celebration. Produced by the Talking Band, a collaborative group that spins evocative tapestries of words, imagery and…
The Boulder International Fringe Festival has announced its preliminary 2012 artist lineup, which includes such past fringe faves as TinHouse Experimental Dance, Gemma Wilcox Productions, Square Product Theatre and Band of Toughs, as well as a wide range of on-the-edge artists hailing from New York to San Francisco and points…
When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom…
The words “diva” and “legendary” could have been coined to describe Maria Callas, one of those fiery, imperial, larger-than-life talents who defines her art form for a generation — though critics have been divided on whether her voice was a gift from God or an essentially flawed instrument. Callas’s life…
