Stoppage, now in the main space at Pirate: a contemporary art oasis (3659 Navajo Street, 303-458-6058) is the latest in a long-running series of installation exhibits by Pirate member Richard Colvin and his partner, Katherine Temple. The piece is unexpectedly spare, considering the pair’s typical everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach. Suspended from the…
digital.movement.04. Tracy Weil, owner of the weilworks gallery has a passion for computer-aided art. That’s why he organized digital.movement.04: Installations in video, sound & digital animation, the first in a planned series of annuals that will feature art that employs digital technologies in its creation. Weil began by putting out…
At the beginning of Three Ways Home, currently being produced by the Shadow Theatre Company, Sharon, a white career woman, has volunteered at a social-services agency. She’s assigned to visit Dawn, an African-American welfare recipient suspected of abusing her four children. Sharon’s opening monologues are wittily incisive as she introduces…
Dalton Trumbo was a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of writers whose careers were ruined during the McCarthy era because they stood up to the House Un-American Activities Committee. After his bluntly hilarious non-cooperative session with the committee — re-enacted in Trumbo: Red, White & Blacklisted — Trumbo…
Cabaret. Cabaret is grim and distressing, and there’s not a hint of redemption anywhere in it. Quite the contrary. But this is a bloody good production, the kind of production that could attract all kinds of people who might never think of setting foot in a conventional dinner theater. Anyone,…
In this hour of enmity and bitterness, we Americans appear to be totally fed up with each other. Post-9/11 and mid-Iraq, the national political debate has been reduced to a nasty civil war that ruins friendships, stops casual dinner chats cold and, if I don’t miss my guess, gladdens the…
The most crucial piece of equipment in Hollywood is obviously not the movie camera. It’s not the casting couch. Not even the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud or the personal trainer. It’s the Xerox machine — which was preceded by carbon paper. That’s why, over the years, we have had three Mrs…
The future is almost here. At least it is according to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (Pandaemonium) and director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People), two cinematic visionaries whose combined vision in Code 46 sparks tremendous intrigue — and unrest. At once a weirdly familiar sci-fi trip, a bleak romance, a…
The first of the University of Colorado Film Studies program’s Goldfarb and Grillo Awards — students will win $12,000 this academic year — will be presented this week at the fall Student Awards Showcase. The prizes, in the words of the presenters, “are designed to encourage excellence in filmmaking and…
“We come back to Denver in triumph,” says Maggie Renzi, the producer of Silver City, John Sayles’s new movie that premieres here on September 10. “We pulled off something pretty miraculous. We started to shoot a movie last September, and we’re coming back with it in September.” Not only that,…
Thursday, September 9 Remember the torch-lighting ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, in 1998? Then you no doubt saw and heard the city’s thundering Matsukawa Kyougaku Taiko Drummers, a hometown ensemble dedicated to preserving an art that’s been around for hundreds of years. And although some say the…
I know that September 11 belongs to the entire country, that everyone in some way has a connection to the events: a brother, an aunt, a friend who was there, who saw it, who died in it. But I still somehow feel very personal about it — possessive, in fact…
FRI, 9/10 Kids love to journey back to that colorful age when mummies, animal gods and pyramids were part of a kingdom along the Nile — and for many, the appeal of those ancient times doesn’t fade away with adulthood. With today’s arrival of The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of…
SAT, 9/11 Fifteen-year-old Coloradan Zipei Feng is The Bride of the Go world, slaying twenty competitors at a time in the 4,000-year-old Eastern board game. It’s a complex, mentally challenging match — though certainly not as bloody as the encounters in Kill Bill Vol. 1. In China, promising Go players…
FRI, 9/10 Denver artist Tracy Weil is a fun-loving guy, and his River North neighborhood gallery/studio/house, weilworks, is just the place to have fun. “It’s my Barbie Dream House,” Weil says without irony. Sure — if Barbie’s house was a quirky, neo-modern space with an exhibition tower and a see-through…
SAT, 9/11 It’s a time-proven formula: Pop plus dumb equals ka-ching. So how did Burt Bacharach, one of the most successful pop composers of the twentieth century, end up with a body of sophisticated, intelligent hits? Maybe it’s because his songs — including dozens of classics such as “Walk on…
The adage about too many artists spoiling the installation is exemplified by a collaborative piece — done by several of the co-op’s members and by faculty from Metro — on view in the front space at Edge Gallery (3658 Navajo Street, 303-477-7173). Thank goodness John Davenport’s compelling solo, 1+1=1: More…
Dots, Blobs and Angels. Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting an enormous solo that is dedicated to the late David Rigsby, an artist who played a big part in the local art scene in the ’70s and ’80s. The exhibit was organized by director Cydney Payton, who installed it…
For its 2nd Annual Summer One-Act Festival, Miners Alley has put together two one-acts about the dramatic process itself. They’re witty, playful and fun to watch, and they work well with each other. The first, Hidden in This Picture, is by Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter for such movies as The American…
OpenStage Theatre & Company in Fort Collins always walks a thin line between professional and community theater, and this production of The Play’s the Thing falls definitively on the community side. The script is by Ferenc Molnar, a Hungarian author best known for the bittersweet Liliom, which, in the hands…
Cabaret. Cabaret is grim and distressing, and there’s not a hint of redemption anywhere in it. Quite the contrary. But this is a bloody good production, the kind of production that could — and should — attract all kinds of people who might never think of setting foot in a…
In Victorian England, thousands of novels were published every year. Of the few that have endured, perhaps none is more worthy of a film adaptation than Vanity Fair, if for no other reason than this: It’s a chore to read. Clocking in at 850 pages, with frequent excursions into unrelated…
