Once in a lifetime

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Ghostly gardens

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"Does everyone who dies become a ghost?” It’s a complicated question posed by Mary Lennox to her uncle Archibald Craven. Mary recently lost her parents...

Laugh

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Thursday, June 26: Maria Bamford with Jackie Kashian. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theatre, 2032 14th Street, Boulder, 303-786-7030...

Opposites attract

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During the mid-1960s when his soon-to-be-legendary career as a playwright was just taking off, Neil Simon decided to tweak the longstanding trope of the mismatched companions. Stretching back at least to the Mutt and Jeff comic strip in the early 1900s, this storied ...

Fighters in the ring

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How best do we whittle ourselves into instruments for change? Is it by sharpening our tongues, hardening our fists or sweetening our songs? That’s the question at the heart of One Night in Miami..., which posits the conversations that might have unfolded while boxer ...

Paula Poundstone on comedy, motherhood and confidence

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Comedian Paula Poundstone has been in the comedy game for more than 30 years now. She’s known for her stand-up, work on NPR’s weekly...

Barrie’s back

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Just to make sure we’re all on the same page, the title of this review in no way implies that Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s Peter Pan somehow manages to incorporate references to the medical marijuana dispensaries that have cropped up (heh, heh) on seemingly every other...

You say you want a revolution?

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The Revolutionists will not be televised. You’ll have to put down the remote, tablet, laptop or phone and get your unplugged self to the...

Lovers and madmen

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The Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) opened its 56th season last weekend with one of the Bard’s most beloved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in addition to The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Macbeth, Richard II and a two-night reprise of Women...

Sight, sound, mind and mirth

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Halloween is but a few scant days away, and whether you celebrate it as Samhain, All- Hallows-Eve or the Feast of Heedless Inebriation, it’s time to get ghouly, ghostly and ghastly once again...

The ones with the thin, bright faces

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Everyone knows of Neverland and Peter Pan, but far fewer people know Scottish playwright James Matthew Barrie’s other magical worlds and characters. Produced by...

Keeping the heart alive

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"When you grow up, your heart dies,” Allison “Basketcase” Reynolds sadly theorizes in The Breakfast Club. It serves as a forewarning, one that teenagers...

It’s time to get real

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A date takes a wrong turn and ends up in an orgy; someone spontaneously kisses a cab driver with irresistible eyes; McDonald’s serves as the backdrop for a break up; a guy decides he’d rather stay single than fall in love with a girl named Aphrodite...