Juliet Wittman raved about Miss Julie, Paragon Theatre’s opening production in its brand-new home, a specially constructed black-box theater. As it turns out, this will also be Paragon’s last production…ever…
Want to see The Book of Mormon? The touring show’s Denver dates in August are officially sold out, with tickets going for astronomical amounts on the web. At this point, your best bet might be to fly to New York (Jet Blue has a one-day sale today), then get in…
Skiers competing at the Red Bull Cold Rush this week at Silverton Mountain got their first reminder of just how hardcore the venue is yesterday when an early morning avalanche wiped out a third of the planned course for the Day 1 Big Mountain portion of the three-day freeskiing event…
I am the product of weird parents. Okay, “weird” probably isn’t the best word, considering it can describe everything from hairstyles to movies to that guy on the bus who always smells like day-old Whopper Jr.’s and mothballs. But my parents were definitely weirdos. My dad made Tang and Spam…
Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day managed to knock the socks off more than a few listeners when they released the song cycle American Idiot on CD in 2004. But at the time, no one could have imagined the ruckus a stage version would eventually make on Broadway. A fabulous…
Talk about painting the town! Every weekend, Denver is overflowing with activities and events. But Mythica von Griffyn’s live body-painting performance at Xcentricity Gallery Friday could have topped them all…
Denver was one of Chinese art’s first foreign outposts. Back in the ’90s, Robischon became one of the first galleries in the United States to feature contemporary Chinese pieces, while MCA Denver presented one of the first exhibits of Chinese contemporary photography anywhere in the country. The curator of the…
AB EX. Several Denver art venues are presenting shows to salute the opening this past fall of the Clyfford Still Museum, with most featuring displays anchored by abstracts. A stunningly beautiful example of this is AB EX: Positions and Dispositions, at the capacious Robischon Gallery. The exhibit comprises five discrete…
Director-screenwriter Tran Anh Hung crams Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood into two and a half hours that offer barely a hint of the beloved 1987 cult novel’s true flavor. Not completely surprising given its elusive, ostensibly soap-operatic narrative: Toru Watanabe (Ken’ichi Matsuyama), a teenage college student in 1967 Tokyo, struggles with…
The Oscar-nominated animated musical Chico & Rita opens with a jaw-dropping swoop over modern-day Cuba, a well-grimed and bustling island of densely packed buildings that, here, is immaculately detailed and tinted just so as to make it beam even in squalor. Chico & Rita deserves credit for being the rare…
As Southern Baptist Sissies begins, a preacher is delivering a sermon while a young man comments on it: “What a crock of shit,” Mark exclaims. Having silenced the preacher, who exists only in his memory, he tells the story of four choir members — himself included — who grew up…
The foundations of Silent House are laid atop La Casa Muda, a nil-budget 2010 Uruguayan horror film that enjoyed an afterlife in international film festivals. It is not surprising that La Casa Muda was hastily snapped up for an English-language remake, for the concept is the sort of low-overhead, trend-conscious…
In the opening scene of Friends With Kids, a conspicuously placed copy of Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion on the bedside table of Jason (Adam Scott) marks him as a non-believer. His doubt also extends to conjugal matters, for he is unconvinced that married parents could ever be happy. Sharing…
The ecologically minded SustainAbility hosted Recycled Runway, a fashion show Friday night at the Sherman Events Center that attracted an unpretentious collection of hippies, fashionistas, press, parents and those who aren’t a typical presence in the fashion world, creating an “awesome mix” of people and fashion, in the words of…
Mythica von Griffyn says her connection to the person she paints goes deeper than some people may think. “It’s a spiritual process,” she explains. “I follow the same principals of Dr. Emato, who found that by writing words on jars of water, the water would form different crystallized compounds at…
When Laura Bauer took over the Prom Dress Exchange from its previous organizer, she hoped to make the 2011 event a big success. And although only eighteen girls walked out of her makeshift door outfitted with gently used gowns, she was happy with the results. In contrast, this year’s edition…
At Big Time, there are big chances taken. There are also live commercials for some of the freshest performances in the region, charming emcees, and a sense of something happening, really happening. Just like its parent organization, the Boulder International Fringe Festival, Big Time is dedicated to the extraordinary –…
People had a lot to say about Shit Girls in Denver Say, a video created by 25-year-old Erin Streets, a local designer and stylist. And we’ll give the last word on the three-minute video to her:…
Adam Lerner, billed as “Director and Chief Animator, Department of Fabrications” on his business cards, and his creative crew at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver rate a rave in the New York Times this week. The March 1 piece titled “Puppies, Paintings and Philosophers” focuses on the Mixed Taste programs…
Vintage Theatre Productions has found a new home: In April, it will move into the Dayton Street Theatre at 1468 Dayton Street in Aurora, which will be renamed Vintage Theatre. “This is an extremely exciting move for us in our tenth anniversary season,” says executive producer Debbie Laureta. “Our new…
Last night’s episode of Project Runway All Stars was brought to you by a Deadhead near you. Or it might as well have been. The challenge asked the designers to create a look that would pop under a black light and impress guest judge Pharrell Williams…
Curious Theatre Company just announced its fifteenth season, which includes five regional premieres as well as Yasmina Reza’s Tony award-winning God of Carnage. Artistic director Chip Walton says he uses two criteria in making his selections: “I need to be moved intellectually and not just emotionally, provoked as well as…
