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Punching out
It was a labor dispute that first sparked the idea for the award-winning new play from Denver-based writer Matt Wexler. While he was attending...
‘The Vow’ Earns a Record $11.6 Mil on Valentine’s Day
The Rachel McAdams-Channing Tatum romantic drama easily posts the best midweek gross ever for the sweetheart holiday...
Boulder Philharmonic pairs ‘complementary’ composers Beethoven and Elgar
Michael Butterman, music director of the Boulder Philharmonic, thinks that Beethoven and the English composer Sir Edward Elgar go well together, but he’s not...
Making whatever music you can
Start with a gritty New Orleans street-band influence — all fun, all music, all party. Throw in more musical influences than you can count, from Eastern European gypsy grass to George Clinton funk to Bugs Bunny cartoons, and you’re getting close. Add a sizable ...
CMF ends 2019 season Aug. 3 with Mahler’s Third Symphony
Music Director Peter Oundjian will conduct the final two weeks of the Colorado Music Festival 2019 season, with four orchestral concerts July 25–Aug. 3.
Oundjian’s...
Beyond parody
Alert the Broadway divas. The touring production of Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation! is back in Denver with a new era of blockbuster productions...
Holy sheet
After having visited Bloodshed / The 13th Floor, and Zombieland / Asylum, my Halloween Haunted House Tour had immediately gone from happy-go-lucky, and "phew, my pants are still on," to "I will never be able to sleep with the lights off again, and my goodness how is ...
Friendly skies ‘Up In The Air’
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) has a job that keeps him flying 200 days/ year in Up In The Air — he’s a corporate downsizer brought in to fire excess employees. It’s a tough job and Bingham has made a career out of detaching, disassociating from anything that could ...
Extracting stories from the industries of the American West
In the ruins of the sugar mill on Madison Avenue in Loveland, one of the buildings has a message painted on the roof: “IT...
Preach, Spike. Preach.
Spike Lee is many things; subtle is not one of them. In 1989 — with three movies under his belt — the Brooklyn-based producer/director exploded on to a grand stage with Do the Right Thing. The movie stirred the pot and caused a fair amount of controversy, but what ...
The church basement ladies are back
Where Hollywood can’t get enough of reboots, reimaginings and sequels — why else Jaws: The Revenge or The Expendables 3? — in live theatre, sequels are the exception rather than the rule. Perhaps in recognition of the law of diminishing returns, even when a play or ...
