Clyfford Still had, in the words of Denver Film Society’s Keith Garcia, “a lot of playful notions about movement.” Tonight, audiences at the Denver FilmCenter will examine Still’s relationship to an abstract expressionist of a different stripe, Russian avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, in Film/Still: Short Films of Maya Deren. The…

Although the Athena Project Festival, a celebration of the work of female artists, won’t debut until next summer, it’s launching its Plays in Progress series, featuring new works by six female playwrights, at 8 p.m. tonight at the Aurora Fox, 9900 East Colfax Avenue, starting with a reading of Clinnesha…

Among the many avant-garde artists and writers with whom Donald Sutherland was friends were Gertrude Stein and her life partner, Alice B. Toklas. Sutherland’s friendship with Stein began when she praised his 1937 book, Child with a Knife. In 1951, he wrote the first text dedicated to a stylistic study…

There are more medical marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks locations in town — and any number of publications that focus on the state’s booming MMJ business. The Auraria Library has an archive of these publications, as well as more historic materials dealing with cannabis…

Before he restored landmarks like the Molly Brown House, Ninth Street Historic Park and Four Mile House Historic Park, and designed some landmarks of his own, architect Ed White was a student at Columbia, where he met many of the people who would become famous figures of the Beat generation,…

Thomas Hornsby Ferril was the poet laureate of Colorado until his death in 1988. The home where he spent most of his life is a Denver landmark that Colorado Humanities plans to sell. But Ferril left other things to remember him by, including books of poetry that are part of…

In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play, produced by Equinox Theatre and opening tonight at the Bug, is exactly what it sounds like: a play about vibrators. But in this case, the action centers around their use as a treatment for “hysteria,” a commonly diagnosed “affliction” in women at…

It’s an election year, which means most of us are a little irate, and Second City comic duo Frank Caeti and Matt Craig — known together as FrankenMatt — are no exception. So Caeti, formerly of MADTV, and Craig, an alum of Saturday Night Live’s writing team, are taking that…

Based on Amy Tan’s novel of the same name, the on-stage version of The Joy Luck Club tells the story of four Chinese women and their daughters, and how they reconcile their changing relationships and cultural connections. But Craig Bond, artistic director of Vintage Theatre, which is staging the production,…

There are only a few thousand Jewish people left in India; many of them immigrated to Israel decades ago. Siona Benjamin, an artist originally from Bombay, explores the singular experience of being an Indian Jew in her work, which uses both classic and modern imagery and a variety of mediums,…

Wicked opens tonight at the Buell Theatre, making Denver the first market to host the award-winning musical for a fourth time. It’s a distinction that makes Randy Weeks, president of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, proud. “The team diligently works to maintain the quality of Wicked…. Hopefully, I’ll…

“When you’re only renting a theater for one night and only need one good-sized audience to pay for rent, you can be more creative in your choices,” says Jim O’Leary, artistic director of One Night Stand Theater, explaining why he chose to mount the one-night-only Death by Radio, made up…