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The selection-by-lottery format of the Boulder International Fringe Festival ensures a healthy diversity of performers each year, but there are still repeat artists from year to year...

The words “Thank Jerry Bruckheimer” are not often strung together, but without his inspired decision to turn a Disney theme park ride into a big-budget summer tent pole movie nearly 10 years ago, I’m guessing that pirates would not be enjoying their current ...

Perusing the list of plays at this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF), a purist might be a bit nonplussed. Out of five total plays, the bard penned only two, Twelfth Night and Richard III, putting Shakespeare’s work firmly in the minority at his own festival...

It’s a testament to the playwright, cast and director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s Noises Off that something as subtle as a missed stage direction can become a hilarious running joke in a play...

You would not expect to meet Aunt Eller and Curly, two of the homespun characters of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic American musical Oklahoma!, at the opera house...

Say what you will about Tybalt or Iago, Edmund (the bastard!) or Lady Macbeth. For my money, the greatest Shakespearean villain is Richard. He opens Richard III as the Duke of Gloucester and ends it as the King of England. He is, by his own hand or through his ...

Plenty of comics know that tragedy can make for some great comedy, but few have mastered it the way Christopher Titus has. After all, he’s got plenty of great material to work with: a dead, crazy mom; a dead, alcoholic dad; a dead marriage; and a dead television show...

The Bard is back, baby...

After months of deliberation, the final plays have been chosen for this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival, bringing together top theater directors to put on shows that will last throughout the summer months...

Comedy’s one of the world’s great equal opportunity employers. It doesn’t matter what you look like, your age, socio-economic status or background. Gay, redneck, Asian, woman (or all four!) — humor not only reaches across the boundaries that separate us, it pulls...

It’s not often that one has the opportunity to see psychological horror played out on stage. Pratfalls and buffoonery abound. Studies in tragedy crop up weekly. Musical theater is so prevalent that it has become its own sub-genre. But plays devoted to the terrors ...

You don’t have to look much beyond the title of comedian Kate Clinton’s latest show to get her take on the state of the world. In “All Fracked Up,” Clinton cranks through woes of the modern world like fracking (of course), global weirding and Republicans...