Franz Kafka

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Apocalypse? How! writer Nancy Hightower on the Grotesque

Nancy Hightower​There's a lot of buzz about Plus Gallery's current show, Apocalypse? How! It's grotesque, it's freaky, and it draws on the hysteria about the end of the world! Nancy Hightower, whose written narrative ties together the work of the four artists (or the four horsemen) featured ... More >>

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Kafka on Ice redux: Tonight at Buntport Theater

Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice -- created by the company in 2004 -- combines events from the author's life with incidents in his famous novella Metamorphosis (you know, the one that begins, "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic ... More >>

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Kafka on Ice succeeds in this slick go-around by Buntport

The Buntport Theater was looking good at Kafka on Ice's reopening

​More than once during the Buntport Theater's Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. "It's inappropriate!" he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another ch ... More >>

Ice Slick

Not so happy: Life During Wartime is full of apologies, sincere and otherwise

Play Fair at Starz

Buntport channels its inner O'Neill in The World Is Mine

The White Ribbon

The verdict is in: The Trial inspires a worthy play in Joseph K

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Imaginative Art

Westword Music Showcase 2007

Saturday, June 16

2005 MasterMind Awards

HIDDEN NARRATIVE

Space Gallery

Flick Pick

Office Space

Best Experimental Play

Kafka on Ice

Encore

Encore

Encore

Encore

Cutting-Edge Comedy

Buntport's Kafka on Ice slices up the melancholy author's life.

Can You Dig?

A bang-up way to celebrate an earthy Fourth.

Well Grounded

The Terminal is Spielberg's satiric take on our post-9/11 world.

The Beatdown

A brokenhearted savior revs up Monsters Inc. at Herman’s for old time’s sake.

Dictator's Folly

The 30th of Baydak needs to swim in deeper waters.

Flick Pick

The Fly

Toothy Smile

Columbine and a love of film give birth to a bucktoothed vampire.

Off Limits

Dead air

Reefer Gladness

Brenda Blethyn goes to pot in Saving Grace.

Smiley Smiles

Highbrow author gaits into the realm of horse sense.

Road Warriors

Boon or boondoggle, Bill Owens's highway plan has to get past Douglas Bruce before it goes anywhere.

The Ultimate Illusion

Broadcast Noose

Tiny Terror

Attracted by Its Own Gravity

Letters

KIDS SEE THE DARNEDEST THINGS

FUTURE TENSE

HOW SWELL IT IS

DENVER'S LOUNGE LIZARDS WERE ALL DRESSED UP WITH NO PLACE TO GO. ENTER THE KIT KAT CLUB.LET'S DO LOUNGE SINATRA SONGS, COCKTAIL PARTY CLOTHES AND CHAT GALORE--THEY'LL DRINK TO THAT.

PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 12

AS OTHER PBS STATIONS WORRY, KBDI TRIES STAYING UP ALL NIGHT.

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