Making bad movies good
Mile High Sci-Fi provides the wit you only wish you had How many times have you and your friends found yourselves watching some random, awful movie? Faster than you can say “Zardoz” you’re all chiming...
View ArticleClassical music and classic musical madness
For years now, the Curious Theatre Company has impressed me. Always serious but never pretentious, Curious pushes envelopes while never forgetting that the first rule of theater is — and no, it’s...
View ArticleA mannered manor
It`s not often that I reach for the Bible when trying to wrap my mind around a theatrical experience. Sports metaphors? Sure. Pop culture references? Naturally. But the Bible, not so much. Yet after...
View ArticleBarrie’s back
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...
View ArticleConcrete Blonde tours for the fun of it
Concrete Blonde are that rare animal, an alt-rock band with staying power. The group’s first, self-titled album got the band’s career rolling in 1986, but it wasn’t until 1990’s Bloodletting,...
View ArticleThis is your grandmother on drugs
Not unlike a stoner confronted with the choice between a fresh bag of crunchy, nacho-cheesy Doritos and a plate of warm, gooey, fresh-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies, I am completely and...
View ArticleThere will be couplets
In this age of MTV’s Jersey Shore — or for that matter an age in which Pauly Shore still gets work in direct-to-video dreck like Adopted — a mockumentary about Shore trying to follow in Angelina...
View ArticleFrom sedition to submission
More than any other of his works, The Taming of the Shrew is a testament to Shakespeare’s genius and unbelievable staying power. It is easy to understand why plays like Hamlet, with its intrigue,...
View ArticleSinners and saints
You may not consider yourself a “theater person.” You may be one of the many who feel a twinge of actual fear when contemplating reading — or even just seeing — a work by William Shakespeare....
View ArticleIn the middle of Main Street
Though I’ve been a theatre lover since I was a child and a theatre critic for the better part of a decade, there remain some seminal productions I have never seen. It’s not that I’ve avoided them in...
View ArticleThrough the charnel glass
The dog days of summer have clamped their jaws around our quiet, little, white-bread, mountain-adjacent town, and that means it’s time once again for the Boulder International Fringe Festival, a...
View ArticleSuper spoofers
After seeing The 39 Steps at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, I tried to recall all of the Hitchcock references the show contained. I counted no fewer than seven, and I’m almost certain I...
View ArticleWhat has four legs and rocks?
John Elway walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “Why the long face?” No wait. I mean, a horse walks into a bar, and the bartender asks, “What’ll you have, Mr. Elway?” Nope, that’s still not it. Let’s...
View ArticleAn anything but silent night
The Denver Center Theatre Company kicks off the holiday season with a subversive bit of Christmastime counter-programming. Reckless, by Craig Lucas, is a snow-covered fever dream full of manic energy...
View ArticleSwansea song
It’s been 10 months since I last reviewed a show at the Miners Alley Playhouse in downtown Golden. Unlike Courtney Love or the majority of the Baldwin brothers, time has been kind to Miners Alley. A...
View ArticleGood golly, Miss Dolly
Mere weeks ago candles glowed warmly in menorahs. Christmas lights twinkled on eaves and living room trees. The riotous colors of Kwanzaa accompanied the celebration of Umoja and Kuumba. Children from...
View ArticleSocial Distortion’s latest will anger mal-adjusted fogies, please...
Social Distortion’s latest, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, is a maturity test of sorts. After all, Social D has been playing its unique brand of hard luck punk rock since the early 1980s. Give any band...
View ArticlePeanuts, Cracker Jacks, perfidy and laughs
Do you enjoy plays or musicals (Sure, we all do!) but can never convince your husband, wife, lover, son, daughter, friend, co-worker or mail delivery person to join you for a show? Well, if that...
View ArticleJust a kiss
Putting on a play is one complicated proposition. Think about how difficult it is to coordinate with a small handful of your friends for a Saturday night jaunt to Pearl Street or (gasp!) Denver and you...
View ArticleDropkick Murphys still going strong with latest album
Dropkick Murphys (DKM) are back, and their timing couldn’t be better. Their new album, Going Out In Style, dropped on March 1. As one of America’s most talented and popular Celtic-rock bands — one of...
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