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A song of hope and sorrow
A songwriter pens words aching to be sung to someone who will understand them. A listener puts on a record hoping to hear words they...
Unreal reality: ‘The Realish Housewives of Cherry Creek’
Is the idea of a reality TV parody an inherent redundancy? Whether it’s The Real World, Duck Dynasty, The Jersey Shore or Here Comes...
DeVotchka translates Sondheim
Denver-based, indie rock band, DeVotchKa is no stranger to unconventional projects. With multiple original albums, the band has also scored movies including Little Miss...
Keeping the heart alive
"When you grow up, your heart dies,” Allison “Basketcase” Reynolds sadly theorizes in The Breakfast Club. It serves as a forewarning, one that teenagers...
This silence is golden
Any theater purists out there who weep into their chamomile about the stage being corrupted by more and more adaptations of (gasp!) films, need...
‘The Tender Land’ hits close to home
Fiery gypsy smugglers, humpbacked court jesters, cruel tyrants, Japanese geishas and French nuns facing the guillotine — it’s a good bet that most operatic...
‘Newsies’ reminds us that change is possible
"Just because we only make pennies don’t give anyone the right to up and rub our noses in it,” says a frustrated newsboy in...
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...
BETC synergizes a new paradigm
Isn’t language marvelous? The interplay between words and meaning, denotation and connotation, is ever evolving, its fluidity influenced by cultural, temporal and psychological factors....
Phamaly sets a new standard for theater
Live theater requires a suspension of belief. The audience must take the real actor they see, and believe that he or she is the...
‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ is fun
There’s a special place in hell reserved for musicals with long titles. Hardly do they roll off the tongue, but instead tumble awkwardly out...
‘The Wizard of Oz’ dazzles the Buell Theater
Certain locations can capture the imagination. Some wish to travel to a galaxy far, far away, others yearn to pass through the barricade of...
