Playbill: Three New Shows in Metro Denver March 18-20

This week on stages in metro Denver, moments in American history will be recounted and reimagined, while opera singers and Shakespearean actors throw their lots together for a fun night of poetry and song. Here’s how to play along. Black Elk Speaks Aurora Fox Arts Center March 18 through April…

Review: Missy Moore Worth Seeing in Edge Theater’s Getting Out

Marsha Norman’s Getting Out, first produced in 1979, portrays the grim dilemma of a woman just released from prison. Arlene has been driven to her bare-bones Louisville, Kentucky, apartment by a prison guard, Benny, who actually retired from his job for the chance to be with her — though his…

Lewis Black on Bernie Sanders, Voting Rights and The Root of All Evil

Lewis Black is a thoroughly astute political satirist. Assuaging righteous outrage with laughter is every comedian’s noble goal, but Black rises above the majority of his peers (at least those without their own eponymous television programs) with his keen analysis of social ills. Star and co-creator of Comedy Central’s dearly missed…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Tim Roberts

#92: Tim Roberts Writer, editor, thinker: Tim Roberts is all of these things in his capacity as the day-to-day mover and shaker at Counterpath, the nonprofit literary press and event space that he runs with partner Julie Carr, earning a Westword MasterMind award along the way. As Counterpath starts a new…

Photos: Watch Sparks Fly at the Iron Art Festival VI

Glowing, molten metal and the primal genesis of art-in-the-making kept crowds spellbound over the weekend at the Iron Art Festival VI Iron Pour, presented by the University of Colorado Denver’s College of Arts and Media Sculpture Program on the Auraria campus. All photos by Brandon Marshall. Now see the full…

Samuel Prudden Teaches History Through His Art

You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Samuel Prudden wrapped up his debut Denver exhibition at La Cour Art Bar on March 3;…

Denver Literary Calendar: Three Book and Poetry Events March 14-20

This week on the literary scene, you can cheer on youth competitors as they step up to the mike for dramatic poetry readings, learn to look at “different” kids with new eyes, or learn a thing or two about writing fiction from contemporary master Michael Ondaatje. Get out your datebook…

Three Things to Do for Free in Denver, March 14-17

It’s mid-March and the bargain fun just don’t stop. This week you can watch comedians play video games, meet a local legend and experience a whole new adventure. Let us now of any bargains we missed, and check out the Westword calendar for even more to do.  Sexpot Comedy Presents…

Smash Brings Ping Pong and Bar Games Back to Exdo

Smash returned to Denver last Wednesday with a can’t-miss combination of ping pong, Jenga, giant cornhole and vintage video games on a wall-sized screen at the Exdo Event Center.  The game-oriented club night, which features spins by DJ YoHuckleberry, will be featured every second Wednesday of the month at Exdo…

Five Can’t-Miss Flicks at the Women + Film Festival

The Denver Film Society’s Women + Film Festival has set its course for another memorable trip into cinema that starts Tuesday, March 15 at the Sie FilmCenter.  The festival’s focus on films “by, for, and about women” will bring everything from narrative features about women at various stages of life…

Gallery Sketches: Three Second Saturday Shows in Denver March 12

Do you like to go against the grain? First Friday is already old news, so here are three Second Saturday openings to keep your March art agenda rolling. Escapism: Works on ePaper by Tim Schwartz Leon Gallery March 12 through April 24 Opening reception: 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, March…

Brian Vogt on the Denver Arts Scene and How His Gardens Grow

Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…

Playbill: New Theater in Denver and Boulder March 10-13

This weekend on local stages, Su Teatro transforms a Chicano literary classic through drama and dance, LOCAL Theater Company gets the public involved in play-making, and Vintage Theatre turns on the tear machine with a story about the breakdown of intimacy in the face of tragedy. Bless Me, Ultima Su…