Where would Denver theater be without Ed Baierlein? He and his talented wife, Sallie Diamond, started Germinal Stage thirty years ago, back when there was very little theater of any kind in town. He has produced a roster of challenging, hilarious and thoughtful plays every year since — and in…
Mare Trevathan brings a combination of subtlety, conviction and luminosity to every role she undertakes. In Harold Pinter’s Old Times for Bas Bleu, she was the mysterious Kate, whose husband and onetime best friend spent the evening vying for her attention. She was also somewhat muted as the wife of…
Jamie Horton, one of the earliest members of the Denver Center Theatre Company, is a local treasure. He proved it again this year with his performance as Dalton Trumbo in Curious’s Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, making the man eccentric, outspoken, wise and wily in that peculiarly evocative American way…
Nagle Jackson is known as a classical kind of guy — an intelligent translator and a witty and incisive playwright. So it wasn’t a surprise when he staged a lucid production of Molire’s The Misanthrope for the Denver Center Theater Company. But who expected him to follow with a wildly…
Okay, so we weren’t knocked out by The Tricky Part, and we found some fault with The Long Christmas Ride Home and Yellowman. But Inventing Van Gogh and The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia? represented theater at its best. And even though some productions are more winning than others, there’s…
The winds of change are blowing through the Denver Center Theatre Company. New artistic director Kent Thompson has announced that the upcoming season will include two more plays than usual and feature female, black and Latino voices. Thompson seems intent on restoring the company’s role in nurturing original plays, and…
El Centro Su Teatro’s Tony Garcia combined with composer Daniel Valdez to turn the saga of the Chicano community into a moving presentation about Denver’s Mexican-American population. But Westside Oratorio wasn’t just about Denver; it chronicled decades of experience throughout the entire Southwest. As Garcia noted in his script, memory…
Drag queens? Please. When it comes to gender-bent entertainment, boys who dress as girls are as worn out as an old pair of pantyhose. Fortunately, Denver is home to the Alterboys, a troupe of six women who love grrrls and look like bois. The Alterboys have a flavor for every…
Joan Jett, Sonia Dada and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe were the major draws of last year’s LoDo Music Festival. But tucked away from the main stage, quarantined in the dirt like some flea-infested sideshow, the funky members of Log held court for late-night stragglers not quite ready to call it…
Although calling Chris Barber a renaissance man may not be fair to Leonardo da Vinci, there’s no question that he’s got plenty on his plate. He leads Spiv, an enjoyable power-pop band, oversees Pop Sweatshop, a label whose catalogue brims with interesting acts, and, in his free time, channels Elvis…
Sara T — aka Sara Thurston — is 100 percent freaky fly. The notorious “No Bullshit” DJ and glamour gal of groove — host of the monthly booty-shaker Danceotron, co-owner of the south Broadway boutique Chielle, and timekeeper for bands Hot House and Clotheshorse — is thumpin’ her rump all…
Bringing the hipster indie-rock set and the dance-music contingent together may seem like an impossible feat, but the DJ duo of Eric Kozak and Clay Meador, otherwise known as White Girl Lust, have done just that. WGL has almost single-handedly fused DJ culture with the rock scene, cleverly reworking songs…
A Sunday-night institution in Denver since the late ’90s, DJ Nutmeg pumps house music in clubs like the Snake Pit, Lime, Rise and ROX with a verve that comes from years of experience and dedication. Turning each club he plays into an essential spot to hit up, Nutmeg has made…
DJ Foxx is one of the key DJs who’ve put Denver house music on the map. From holding down residencies at some of the city’s top clubs to playing throughout the United States to producing tracks and releasing records under the alias “Rhythmcentric,” Foxx lives and breathes the style. During…
DJ Dragon and his crew, the Triad Dragons, are key forces keeping the rave scene alive in Colorado. The Triad’s Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks and the Caffeine Festival are the two biggest electronic-music events to go down each year. Dragon has also become the face of Denver trance…
DJ Idiom could easily be considered the most creative and eclectic DJ In Denver. Typically sticking to mellower, groovier down-tempo and hip-hop beats, Idiom moves around to incorporate tunes by Bjrk, Sigur Ros, and even Guns N’ Roses in a way that actually makes sense. A regular feature at the…
The best MC in Denver isn’t really even from here. In fact, if you ask the Black Pegasus, aka Robert Houston II, he’ll tell you he’s straight outta Colorado Springs. No matter, though. Black P is up here so often warming up stages for everyone from Atmosphere to Tech N9NE,…
Ever wonder what your favorite local musicians are doing during the week? Presumably, the majority of them are working at jobs, like normal people. At least that’s what you’d think until you stopped by the Denver Message Board and sorted through the myriad posts. Musicians and scenesters go to the…
Too late for the mountains? Too early for the bars? Too drunk to drive? Kick back at home and log on to rockdenver.com, where, for the price of a dumb look, you can enjoy live monthly webcasts from Herman’s Hideaway. The shows feature many of Denver’s emerging acts: the Fray,…
Take the computer flirting scene between Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy in Pretty in Pink, multiply it by a few bazillion gigabytes, and you’ve got myspace.com. With millions of profiles of computer-addicted geeks around the world, it’s basically a glorified, digitized singles bar. But the site is more than Friendster’s…
Founded by longtime local-music champions Tommy Nahulu and David Barber, rockoncolorado.com is more than just a collection of snapshots. The site also contains music-related articles and reviews, as well as a calendar and message board. But the primary attraction is the massive searchable database of live photos. From bigger shows…
Although some dyed-in-the-wool vinyl-lovers cling to the romance of crate-digging, more and more jocks are embracing digital technology. They’re also embracing Beatport. Led by lauded DJ Jonas Tempel, the site is helping to revolutionize the way DJs approach their craft. Tempel and his crew have amassed one of the most…
