Shakespeare’s famously bloody play Macbeth will get a shot of estrogen starting tonight in the Betsy Stage’s original new adaptation. Beth takes the classic tragedy and places it in 1920s Paris, imagining the title character as a female painter toiling in the male-dominated art scene. “It’s about the struggle to…
“Harvey Milk inspired people, and still does, today,” says Denver Gay Men’s Chorus artistic director James Knapp. And he should know: Knapp will conduct ninety singers and a twenty-piece chamber orchestra tonight in I Am Harvey Milk, an emotionally driven oratorio celebrating the life of California’s first openly gay politician…
For Clyfford Still Museum director Dean Sobel, curating Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons From the Albright-Knox Art Gallery for the Denver Art Museum was a bit like raiding the candy store: Since the DAM doesn’t have much in its collection from the classic modern period on which the exhibit focuses,…
Everyone loves the summer celebration that is Film on the Rocks, and here’s why: It’s got comedy, local bands, cult-favorite movies and a party atmosphere, all under the stars at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the most beautiful outdoor venue in the world. This year’s new host, Sam Tallent, will keep spirits…
Gender inequality plagues the theater world, and “women are fully misrepresented as far as getting our work up on stages goes,” says Susan Lyles, founder and director of the And Toto Too Theater Company, an organization that showcases new works by women playwrights. Tonight, for the troupe’s fourth annual Play…
A new collaboration will take three Denver artists far from Tank, the south Denver studio they share with several others, for a two-part exhibit that opens tonight at Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center and the Boulder mixed venue Madelife. When Joel Swanson, just coming off the high point of a solo…
Mirrored tiles, wood branded with politically charged symbols, LPs, books, chairs, rugs and mounds of slowly melting shea butter are just a few of the materials that New York-based artist Rashid Johnson layers into his complex sculptural works. Some hang on walls; others, like the installation called “The Shea Butter…
For our second annual Comics issue and contest, we asked cartoonists (and would-be cartoonists) to send us comics depicting life in Colorado. The winning entries tackled a variety of subjects, from overcrowding to the nightlife of Colorado’s casino mountain towns. Here, we present the cream of the crop. Having trouble…
For this year’s edition of Fantasia 2014, Colin Ward says he was moved to action by the urban environment he experiences every day. “For years I’ve been diehard passionate about the world kind of waking up — I believe that there are so many bad decisions being made with the…
Though Molly Brown’s fame lies with the sinking of the Titanic, the Molly Brown House Museum’s summer exhibit, “A Call to Arms,” aims to show her place in history beyond the boat by focusing on her involvement in World War I. Some of the artifacts include several original Red Cross…
Jeff Raphael was once the drummer of early San Francisco punk band The Nuns. Along with The Avengers, that band opened the infamous last show that the Sex Pistols in its first run played at Winterland in February 1978. Since then, Raphael has gone on to play with several of…
Why is the dance company whose “Welcome to the Madhouse” plays in Longmont this weekend called Point Your Damn Toes? Founder-director Julia Kay laughs. “We first started dancing together two or three years ago, and when we decided to become a company, I was bouncing back and forth among names,”…
Before gamers had the option to kill each other anonymously via the Internet, they had to gather in real-world arcades to do it. In that arena, friendships were made, rivalries were born and a good time was had by all. Those days are long gone, but this summer OhHeckYeah is…
Founded in 2006 by former fabric retailer Dianne Denholm, the TACtile Textile Arts Center was envisioned as a nonprofit center where regional practitioners in all disciplines of the fiber arts could meet, teach classes and display their work. Conceived as a local version of the Textile Center in Minneapolis, which…
Larimer Square was jammed over the weekend with spectators watching an asphalt canvas come alive with color during the annual Denver Chalk Art Festival, a favorite summer kickoff for fest-goers of all ages. Scott Lentz was there to capture the crowd, the artists and the masterpieces-in-progress. See also: Hoodlab will…
The last time I saw a laser show at the the Gates Planetarium, it was during a time when everything I did centered around where I could smoke cigarettes. That time was the early ’90s and I was fourteen or fifteen. I wasn’t old enough to drive, meaning I ended…
When Jeremy Barber was a young kid growing up in Milwaukee, tattoo shops were illegal in the city. That didn’t deter him from pursuing his passion for art and becoming a tattoo artist. He’s been tattooing for almost 20 years and has been living in Denver for the past five…
#77: Kim Olson Dancer/choreographer Kim Olson founded SWEET EDGE ten years ago in Boulder as an interdisciplinary vision built on a foundation of collaboration and trust. “The name derives from a state of being — where change is constant and movement fundamental. We shift, merge, adapt, step out of the…
So, you’ve got a kid, huh? Whether it’s your own rambunctious preschooler or the bratty nephew you’ve been charged with keeping alive for the next five hours, the most important thing is leaving your house where valuables are liable to be destroyed and seeking refuge on somebody else’s property. In…
Hoodlab will be leaving its home in RiNo next month. The owners of the HoodLamb clothing line, which celebrates hemp and got its start in Amsterdam, moved their business into the building at 33rd and Larimer streets almost two years ago, and quickly turned it into a gathering place known…
Scott Takeda’s first time in front of a camera was as a TV journalist. Today he’s often in front of a camera as an actor, with roles in Hollywood films like the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club as well as Halt & Catch Fire , a new series that premiered June…
“You don’t have to tell me about masochism, I’m in the theater,” says Vanda von Dunayev, one of the characters in Curious Theater’s current production, Venus in Fur, by David Ives, which tells the story of a playwright-director attempting to adapt Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s novel Venus in Fur into a…
