Resident theater companies have been on their way out for decades. One of the last was at the Denver Center under Donovan Marley, whose loyalty to his company meant that first-rate actors could actually make a home in Denver — while audiences reaped the benefits. That’s an economically unsustainable model…
Reefer Madness is a take-off on a legendary 1930s movie about the dangers of marijuana — a black-and-white film, shadowy and portentous, full of lurid warnings about how dope leads to crime and madness. Now that marijuana clinics are opening all over the state, city councils are discussing zoning far…
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Gemma Wilcox is the closest thing to a household name at the Boulder Fringe; she took “Pick of the Fringe” there in 2005 for The Honeymoon Period is Officially Over and Leela’s Wheel, and again in 2006 for Shadows in Bloom. And in 2008, 52 Pick Up was named Best…
Native Denverite, dancer and quintessential performance artist Judith Ren-Lay long ago left these parts for New York, but she did return periodically to perform here in `80s and `90s, all the while wowing the critics in the places where it mattered most: The L.A. Times called her an “urban griot,”…
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That old reefer madness has us in its spell: The time is ripe in Denver for a revival of Reefer Madness (aka Tell Your Children), the 1938 anti-pot propaganda film directed by Louis Gasnier. The subject of various revivals over the years, now as a work of comedy, Reefer Madness…
Since most of us cherish the romantic idea that true artists exist outside the mainstream, we’re intrigued by projects like the Boulder Fringe Festival, a no-vetting proposition with performances selected on a first-come, first-served basis or by lottery. I was so intrigued that at first I contemplated devoting a couple…
Garage Sale Loud: This Is It. Almost every summer, the folks at Heritage Square stage what is essentially a musical review with a thin sustaining plot line and the word “loud” in the title. The conceit is that T.J. Mullin and Annie Dwyer are siblings, and they’re reliving their youth:…
What’s hot, and what’s not? Check here everyday for a random look at Fringe haps. Find out what’s going on after the jump…
What’s hot, and what’s not? Check here everyday for a random look at Fringe haps. Find out what’s going on after the jump…
What’s hot, and what’s not? Check here everyday for a random look at Fringe haps. Find out what’s going on after the jump…
Sometimes the simplest things give us the most pleasure. Tomfoolery isn’t a big, complicated show: just four charming performers with a few props and costume changes, accompanied by a pianist and singing the brilliantly savage songs of Tom Lehrer. Written in the 1950s and ’60s by the Harvard-educated mathematician, many…
Watching the king on parade, Louise Maske reached up to get a better view and accidentally dropped her drawers. As The Underpants opens, her husband, Theo, a stuffy conventional German bureaucrat, is deeply worried. He fears the incident will lose him both his job and his reputation. But what he…
Garage Sale Loud: This Is It. Almost every summer, the folks at Heritage Square stage what is essentially a musical review with a thin sustaining plot line and the word “loud” in the title. The conceit is that T.J. Mullin and Annie Dwyer are siblings, and they’re reliving their youth:…
There’s nothing unlucky about this thirteenth season: The always-adventurous Curious Theatre Company, led by artistic director Chip Walton, will follow in its own footsteps by producing another vanguard season of newer works and premieres…
Over the last nine years, Buntport Theater has produced 29 different original plays in Denver that are simply like no other we’ve every actually seen anywhere. They’ve all sprung from a miasmic six-headed Gestalt monster called Brian Colonna, Hannah Duggan, Erik Edborg, Erin Rollman, Samantha Schmitz and Evan Weissman, and…
Two worthwhile local theater productions end their runs this weekend: Paragon Theatre’s The Real Thing and Picasso at the Lapin Agile, presented as a benefit for Senior Housing Options in the lobby of the Barth Hotel in LoDo. Paragon’s version of Tom Stoppard’s comedy begins at 7:30 p.m. nightly through…
To date, Reyna Von Vett — whose alter ego, Cora Vette, emcees burlesque shows under the Burlycute umbrella — has put together more ass-and-titty-shaking shows than you can shake a … well, you know … at. The woman knows her burlesque. So take it from her: You should be excited…
Beauty and the Beast. Though it’s backed by expert musicians and technicians, the real miracle is the Phamaly company itself. The leads are as good as — and often better than — anyone you’ll see anywhere. Jenna Bainbridge is the sweetest Belle imaginable, with a clear, strong soprano and, paradoxically,…
The toughest thing about fringing — attending a fringe festival, that is — is choosing what to see. It all happens so fast — wham bam, six performances in six days — and there’s no real chance for a buzz to really form about a particular performance until it’s already…
And we thought Bob Saget goofing on molesting Kimmy Gibler from Full House was troubling. That’s nothing, apparently. In a bizarre email addressed to “Tracy Morgan ticket buyers,” Comedy Works went so far as to warn show-goers that the performance is “the most extreme in nature that we can possibly…
