Stage
The year of empty theaters
Everyone has a last-thing-I-did-before-the-pandemic-started memory. For me, it was seeing SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical at the Buell Theater. The coronavirus panic was starting to...
Local Theater Company gears up for season 10 with a new...
The pandemic isn’t always a destructive fire; sometimes it’s regenerative, like a wildfire clearing out debris on the forest floor.
For Local Theater Company, disaster...
Reinventing the wheel
The Catamounts had just wrapped up its largest production to-date, an immersive staging of the musical Shockheaded Peter, when the pandemic shut down Colorado in...
More than a simple sponge
Currently on stage at the Buell Theatre is a show that isn’t afraid to talk about the real issues: racism, climate change, science deniers,...
ABBAcadabra
Calling something that’s as awesomely desirable as it is difficult to find a “unicorn” is currently in vogue. Wall Street types call low-risk, high-reward...
No humbug here
Maybe it’s the lack of snow in the metro area? Or the dearth of Christmas lights throughout great swathes of Boulder (I’m looking at...
The first rule of entertainment
Like Fight Club, entertainment has rules, and the first one is so fundamentally important it deserves to be the first two. The first rule...
Anomie of the state
When it comes to orgies, swap meets and many of life’s other adventures, what one brings to the experience often determines what one gets...
The Cats make death a laughing matter with ‘Everybody’
In an interview with the New York Times in 2014, playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins divulged that his father had “been obsessed with his death for...
Love is a battlefield
Improv can be tough for the introverted theatergoer. The lights come up and a group of actors break the fourth wall, looking hungrily at...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
"Come with me, and you'll be in a world of pure imagination." With this simple phrase Willy Wonka invites us into his chocolate factory...
