Silence isn’t always golden
The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) has proven itself to be one of the best theatre companies in Boulder or, truly, anywhere. It consistently produces lively, entertaining, thought-provoking...
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If you’ve never seen the sadly short-lived British TV series Father Ted (R.I.P. Dermot Morgan), you owe it to yourself to give it a look. It’s a screamingly funny show set on the fictitious Craggy...
View ArticleMalt shop memories
Next to the olfactory sense, the sense of sound is generally considered the most closely tied to memory. The smell of chocolate chip cookies can whisk you back to being a kid in grandma’s kitchen, and...
View ArticleA portrait of the artist as a young transplant
More than a lot of other locales, Boulder is peopled by transplants. Almost everyone you meet is from somewhere else. In all my years living in our fair city, I’d estimate only a miniscule percentage...
View ArticleOld Testament 101
Based on my recent visit to Jesters Dinner Theatre in Longmont, one thing is abundantly clear: Jesters has recommitted itself to being the best darn dinner theatre it can be. When I last ventured in to...
View ArticleThe kids are all right
Reinvention is as American as Edison appropriating Tesla’s work or Donald Trump cloaking himself in the mantle of legitimate presidential candidacy. Hollywood’s current remake/reboot craze illustrates...
View ArticleLove, Irish style
The Political Correctness Police seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the Irish. Racial slurs against African Americans, Asians, etc. are obviously right out. Heaven forbid you should question...
View ArticleNot fade away
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think there are two kinds of people in the world and those who know better. Life is more shades of grey than black and white, so investigation and...
View ArticleMothertrucker
Loneliness, one of the most elemental of emotions and an inextricable part of the human experience, serves as the basis for, or at least informs, much great art. Think of the solitary figure in Edvard...
View ArticleThis fish is foul
As the renowned inventor Charles F. Kettering said, “One fails forward toward success.” Louis C.K. expressed a similar sentiment in more modern parlance when he opined, “Whenever you leave behind...
View ArticleLBJ and MLK post-JFK in ‘All the Way’
Boulder boasts some outstanding theater. Led by stalwarts like the Boulder Ensemble Theater Company (BETC) and BDT Stage, the Boulder theater scene is both varied and vibrant. As with dining and art,...
View ArticleBETC synergizes a new paradigm
Isn’t language marvelous? The interplay between words and meaning, denotation and connotation, is ever evolving, its fluidity influenced by cultural, temporal and psychological factors. A single...
View ArticleThis silence is golden
Any theater purists out there who weep into their chamomile about the stage being corrupted by more and more adaptations of (gasp!) films, need to bear two things in mind or else run the very real risk...
View ArticleUnreal reality: ‘The Realish Housewives of Cherry Creek’
Is the idea of a reality TV parody an inherent redundancy? Whether it’s The Real World, Duck Dynasty, The Jersey Shore or Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, the most popular reality TV shows exist in a dusky...
View ArticleGet your Bard on
The BolderBoulder has already bounded by. Cottonwood tufts blanket the ground like allergy-nightmare snow. Thermometers regularly top out in the 90s and with University of Colorado’s students on break,...
View ArticleRemember, remember…
For more than 400 years, every Bonfire Night Britons have recited the following verses in remembrance of the foiled plot to assassinate their king and fundamentally change the course of their history....
View ArticleWar is Helen
You’ve probably heard the old saw about sex being like pizza: “Even when it’s not that great it’s still pretty good.” The same may be said of the works of Señor El Grande Jefe del Teatro, William...
View ArticleThe Abaire-able lightness of being
Despite all of its affluence, education and aspirations to cultural relevance, Boulder sometimes struggles with maintaining a vibrant theater scene. The Dairy Arts Center, which is Boulder’s analog to...
View ArticleThe second American Revolution
Beyond the inability of many hardworking, taxpaying citizens who have health insurance to obtain necessary medical care at a reasonable cost; beyond a legislature too busy back-stabbing and...
View ArticleThe exception that proves the rule
In terms of all-time great chestnuts, right up there with, “A stitch in time saves nine,” and, “Never get involved in a land war in Asia,” is, “It is the exception that proves the rule.” On dozens of...
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