Community theater puts on hokey “interactive show” about “being in a karaoke bar.” That’s exactly what Sean Mahoney and Michael Emmitt of the new Horse & Cart production company did not have in mind for The Singing Room, an original script they’ll reveal to the public tonight in the basement…
Putting improvisation on two wheels and setting it to music is the concept behind Sweat, the latest production at Off-Center@The Jones. Actress Meridith C. Grundei is the brains behind the long-form improv show, which is based on a similar bicycle-mounted, on-the-spot production she put together in Chicago several years ago…
Elephants are slow, lumbering animals, right? Actually, they’ve been clocked at 25 mph — nearly as fast as the fastest human. During the eighth annual Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon, however, the elephants will be mere spectators as thousands of runners stream through the Denver Zoo. The marathon begins today with…
Denver Urban Gardens outgrew its office a long time ago; much like a root ball squeezing its way out of a clay pot, DUG was confined and finding it more and more difficult to get things done in a packed space where desk-sharing is the norm. But that will change…
For the past eight years, Curious Theatre has been honoring local icons who’ve been key players in shaping Denver’s cultural landscape with short plays about their lives. This year, it’s focusing on music-business luminary and AEG Live Rocky Mountains president/CEO Chuck Morris, the man responsible for bringing such national acts…
The lazy days of summer are almost here, and to usher in the season, Larimer Square boutiques are joining forces to show hot looks to update your wardrobe. Young professionals from groups like the Central City Opera, the Denver Center Theatre Marquee Club and the Reel Social Club will model…
Denver’s made the national news a lot over the past year, whether for last summer’s wildfires, the Aurora theater shootings or the legalization of marijuana. Inspired by these events and looking for a way to process them through art, the Damsels Dance Company created Denver on Fire: A Social Commentary…
A trashy vampire flick in art-film drag, Kiss of the Damned satisfies on neither level. Drawing on a host of Euro-horror influences, including but far from limited to a synth score reminiscent of Dario Argento’s Goblin-performed soundtracks, Xan Cassavetes’s pastiche follows lonely bloodsucker Djuna (Josephine de la Baume) as she…
Mixing contemporary art, politics, mysticism and food through a conversational mash-up, MCA Denver’s Huevos Revueltos lecture series starts tonight with “Nuevos Huevos,” a look at contemporary art in Mexico led by Eduardo Sarabia, the Guadalajara-based artist whose exhibition, Tainted, is on display at the museum through June 9. “It’s a…
“The Cold War is very often believed to be kind of a good war because it was never fought,” explains Rocky Flats Cold War Museum executive director Conny Bogaard. “But the price that we paid for that time of building nuclear weapons on a mass scale is all the anxieties…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen fans will find a way to experience her work — and now Denver has another option. After the Stage Theatre at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts sold out the entire run of Sense & Sensibility: The Musical, the troupe…
For this week’s review, art critic Michael Paglia visits Sandra Phillips Gallery and the Denver Art Museum, where he took in solo shows from two of the state’s best abstract artists, both of whom teach at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. For his thoughts on both exhibits,…
Denver is brimming with talent and style — and sometimes, the two clash perfectly together, as is the case with Kissing Party singer Deirdre Sage. We recently spotted the musician at the Mouth House following one of the band’s performances and questioned her about her fashion choices. Continue reading to…
In just more than forty years, video games have evolved from technological novelty to cultural staple. That transformation is chronicled in the Aurora History Museum’s “Growing Up Gamer”, a look back at the history of video games as home entertainment that documents not just gaming’s origins but its impact on…
You probably remember him as the “grandpa’s old cough medicine,” urine-drinking cop from Dumb & Dumber, or the serial killer hitchhiker spouting “seven chipmunks twirlin’ on a branch, eatin’ lots of sunflowers on my uncle’s ranch” in There’s Something About Mary. But you may not know that Harland Williams improvised…
Ben Roy has some catching up to do: While his mates in the Grawlix — Andrew Orvedahl and Adam Cayton-Holland — are both promoting brand-new solo CDs, Roy is still recording his followup to last year’s I Got Demons. Tonight at 8 p.m., he’ll perform at the second of three…
The official start of summer is over a month away, but the unofficial start is upon us, with the release of the Film on the Rocks 2013 schedule. There’s certain to be some controversy over the selection, but as in years past, the Denver Film Society — led by FOTR…
Overhearing two pop-culturists argue about this comedy series, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for a debate over gun-control or Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Passions can run high when a U.S. Office apologist clashes with a U.K. Office purist, leading to heated exchanges about whether David Brent was…
There have been a handful of standup comics with cerebral palsy over the years, but few have transcended the “inspirational” novelty and gone on to achieve legitimate credibility in their field. Not like Denver’s Josh Blue, who conquered the fourth season of Last Comic Standing and released his own Showtime…
Life can be uncomfortable. It’s supposed to be: If you’re comfortable, it probably means you’ve settled into a job that pays the bills, you’re on a television schedule that rivals the class schedule you had in college, and you eat things that you will eventually resemble (potatoes and boxes of…
After his house was foreclosed on, Baltimore burlesque performer Paco Fish decided to seize the circumstance and pursue his dreams. So the performer took the plunge and moved into his van, then embarked on a 52-week Burlesque Vanguard Tour across the country, taking along a variety of characters and theatrical…
#70: Mare Trevathan Mare Trevathan gets around. The theatrical jill-of-all-trades works her chosen field from every angle: as an actor, director, teacher, talking-book reader, collaborator and public-relations expert, going from one spotlight to another as the muse moves her. Trevathan is not only a familiar face on some of the…
