Stage
Shakespeare’s here
People are born and live their entire lives in Manhattan and never ride the ferry to the Statue of Liberty, visit the Empire State...
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
They just don’t make ’em like they used to, eh Keats? Built in obsolescence means that $1,000 (or more) smartphones have scratched up screens...
A curious night at the theater
Half of a geodesic dome fills most of the Grace Gamm Theatre stage at the Dairy Arts Center. The dome is built of thin,...
Musically appealing, educationally valuable
The University of Colorado Eklund Opera Program is doing something it has never done before: performing a full opera in Russian, with English surtitles.
The...
Wheels in motion
Not to be the bearer of bad news, but… 1980 was nearly 40 years ago. Yes, it’s true. 1980 is one of those markers...
Radical truth
Every audience member experiences every play — or movie, or performance art piece, or symphony, or puppet show — through their unique lens. A...
The bluest sky you’ve ever seen
When head flight attendant Jan Brown told her crew on United flight 232 what was about to happen, she said it clearly and calmly:...
CU Theatre and Dance Department presents Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’
"Anything can happen in the woods,” Stephen Sondheim wrote.
That lyric tells one premise of Sondheim’s modern fairy-tale musical Into the Woods, which will be...
Pride and prejudice and Christmas
As Billy Squier so sweetly sang, “Christmas is the time to say ‘I love you.’” As Christmas is coming up on us faster than...
You definitely won’t shoot your eye out
It doesn’t matter whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it isn’t, by the by, from Bruce Willis’ own lips during the only funny...
Still, we’ll proceed
In the name of efficiency and progress in today’s digital world, we’ve all but lost the library due date ink stamper, innocuous an object...
‘Breathe like you are giving birth’
Paper Cut, the new play by Andrew Rosendorf, produced by Boulder’s Local Theater Company, ends with two men on a beach, one fallen into...
