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One small step
Playwright and traveler Mat Smart has been to all 50 states, and there’s one thing he’s noticed: We don’t talk to each other anymore....
‘A shared nest’
Pushing boundaries is nothing new for the team behind Grapefruit Lab. What’s rarer for the Denver-based production company are those moments when the thrill...
Seventeen-seventy snooze
Hot off last year’s revival production at the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, the national tour of 1776 is set to wrap its...
He said, she said
An eerie sense of dejá vu gripped the country during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation, as again the world watched another white man rise...
Alone together
The journey from Celebration, Florida to Boulder, Colorado, began across the pond. Emily K. Harrison, producing artistic director for the local Square Product Theatre,...
Heavy hitter
Despite being the first woman to play professional baseball as a regular on a men’s league team in the United States, Toni Stone’s place...
Dead ringer
If you’re looking for top-tier theatrical entertainment, Louisville’s Coal Creek Theater makes a compelling case for skipping the trip to Denver and attending a...
Curtain raiser
New work has always been the backbone of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA). The company has produced hundreds of world premieres...
Before and after
For the 27th rendition of FEED, an avant-garde, multi-sensory theatrical food experience, Amanda Berg Wilson, artistic director and co-founder of Boulder’s experimental theater group...
‘The Harlem of the West’
When Jeff Campbell, founder and executive director of Emancipation Theater Company, was approached by Denver City Councilmember Candi CdeBaca in 2021 about creating a...
Dream team
Immigration may just be a political talking point for some Americans, but for others, it’s a tangible reality. That much is evident in Benjamin...
Funny in a ‘foreign’ language
It’s no great secret that being a woman in a leadership position comes with many unfair challenges — and for women of color, those...
