Arvada Center art curator Collin Parson is pumped, and here’s why: Unbound: Sculpture in the Field, a show one might say he’s been training for all his life, debuts tonight in the center’s south field, featuring an installation of 27 works by Colorado sculptors. A sculptor himself, Parson, who grew…

In Colorado Springs artist Matt Barton’s world, a place where foxes talk and treehouses sprout up indoors, viewers are asked to suspend their disbelief — even if just for a moment, says MCA Denver’s Adam Lerner. He knows that’s difficult in a modern society too often driven by cynicism and…

When Martin Moran’s The Tricky Part, an Obie-winning, autobiographical one-man show about his brush with sexual abuse as a boy, played at Curious Theatre ten years ago, it left Westword theater critic Juliet Wittman feeling uncomfortable — not because of the subject matter, but because there was no subterfuge or…

Denver’s Chicano cultural-arts group El Centro Su Teatro is just a year shy of celebrating a silver anniversary as a cohesive center, and while artistic director Tony Garcia is planning new work for that big occasion, he’s decided to celebrate the past first, by bringing back a whole season’s worth…

Professional actors take their work seriously; in turn, they hope to have that work respected by their audiences. But once in a while, even the best of the best like to let their hair down and have a little fun. In the case of Miscast — a local tradition that…

The annual Taste of Iceland tour is best known for promoting the food, drink and music of Iceland, but when the 2014 version comes to town, it will also tout a favorite pastime of certain Denver crafters: yarn bombing — or “yarn storming,” as Icelandic yarn graffitist Linda Björk Eiríksdóttir…

Improv veteran Sarah Kirwin thought the time was ripe for an LGBT troupe in Denver, so she hooked up with fellow improv artists Jon Jon Lannen, Michelle Marlowe, Ashley Scroggins and Chris Parente (the KDVR/KWGN celebrity, who also happens to have trained with Chicago’s Second City) to form the Queerbots…

It’s a good year in Colorado for lovers of artist Dale Chihuly’s large-scale glass works, with two major exhibits opening along the Front Range for the summer. One, an outdoor exhibition of site-specific installations, opens in June at the Denver Botanic Gardens, sending up tendrils in and among the gardens…

In only its second season, Theatre Esprit Asia is on the rise; as TEA co-director Tria Xiong notes, the pan-Asian company was the toast of last month’s Colorado Theatre Festival, winning six of nine categories for which it was nominated and getting a standing ovation for its repeat performance of…

Perhaps it started decades ago with Toshiro Mifune and Seven Samurai, but who knows? Whatever the case, Americans have an ongoing love affair with samurai lore. It also could have something to do with our love of costumery and big swords, but samurai gear, though beautifully crafted in the Japanese…

One of Denver’s smallest but hippest galleries, DATELINE, continues its run of eclectic shows with a summer-ending, mostly local group effort, You Look Like How I Used To, which showcases work riffing on the elusive quality of self-definition and rendered in a variety of mediums by four artists. Personal in…

In May, the inaugural Denver Flea drew thousands for a flea-market shopping spree in City Park. But for today’s fall installment, the event’s organizers are trying something a little different by teaming up with TheBigWonderful outdoor food market for a shared experience in Curtis Park’s Sustainability Park. “The first Denver…