In Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the unprincipled seducer tries his wiles on the virtuous and beautiful Dona Ana, whose father challenges him to a duel and is killed — only to reappear in the final moments of the opera as a towering moving statue and drag the unrepentant Don Juan down…
Update: Congratulations to Lee Shuck, Kate Honas and Linoleum Blownaparte! You have each won tickets to Comedy Works. Stay tuned to your Facebook inbox for more information on how to claim them. Original post: Let it be known that Denver has an unfair, absolutely rib-cracking wealth of comedy opportunities –…
Over the past two years, Kevin O’Brien’s weekly comedy event, Arguments and Grievances, has showcased some of Denver’s finest comedic talent in a setting designed for maximum hysteria and controversy. Taking the the age-old format of binary debate performance, O’Brien hosts an evening of hilarious bickering over arbitrary topics like…
For the past month Westword has been profiling the winners of the 2012 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Since 1986 these awards have honored creative individuals and organizations that make artful impact in the community — but this year they were split into three new categories: Youth Arts,…
Before forming LadyFace with friends Melanie Karnopp, Kristin Rand, Timmi Lasley and Mara Wiles, Chella Negro had never done comedy. The musician had clocked thousands of hours on stage as a singer-songwriter, though, and after hanging around the comedy crowd and hosting Denver’s Ladies Laugh-In stand-up night, she was ready…
Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Dixie is a booze- and sex-addicted, trash-talking, child-neglecting ex-con from Alabama who holds Tupperware parties in her trailer, and she’s invited you to this one. Dixie’s Tupperware Party, at the Galleria, really is a Tupperware party — you get a name tag and raffle number when you…
What better time to contemplate the beginning of the world, or, as playwright Catherine Trieschmann puts it in How the World Began, “the leap from non-life to life,” than now, with the East Coast still struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy? As the evening begins, we hear terrifying winds,…
Every year since 1986, Denver has recognized creative individuals and organizations that make an artful impact on the community with the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. The 2012 winners were recently announced, split into three new categories: Youth Arts, Entrepreneurial Arts and Impact Arts. The winners will be…
The Cirque du Soleil model seems calculatedly designed to turn you around by the time the show ends, no matter how cynical you thought you were when it started: Its startling spectacle — from the beautiful costumes and lighting to the way it celebrates the incredible strength of the human…
Beliefs are funny things. From aliens to talking snakes, people believe in some pretty ludicrous stuff, and the rationalist comedians of The Evolution of Comedy tour are here to have fun with that. This Sunday, November 11, Ian Harris, Jason Resler and Maurice Northup will be at Comedy Works to…
From November 7-11, Cirque du Soleil’s roving band of international artists and acrobats is taking over the 1STBANK Center for the multi-dimensional show Quidam. Show and Tell was lucky enough to catch opening night, and we’ll share more about that soon. In the meantime, go backstage with the troupe as…
This Saturday afternoon the Romero Theater Troupe will perform Auraria Custodians Tell Their Story, a play which seeks to air the recent grievances Auraria custodians have had with campus management. “The theme of [the play] revolves around dignity and respect,” says James Walsh, event organizer and UCD History Professor. “We’re…
Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Dixie is a booze- and sex-addicted, trash-talking, child-neglecting ex-con from Alabama who holds Tupperware parties in her trailer, and she’s invited you to this one. Dixie’s Tupperware Partyat the Galleria really isa Tupperware party — you get a name tag and raffle number when you come in,…
“Look out, Haskell. It’s real.” — From Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool, 1969 For all but a small sliver of U.S. society, wars are just a distant rumbling. But for those who have experienced them — soldiers, journalists, refugees — they are devastating. The images engrave themselves indelibly on the brain…
While we wait for Drag Machine, people start handing out freshly spun cotton candy to a line that snakes around the Jones Theatre. Inside, we find that the Drag Queen bathroom (there’s one for Drag Kings, too) sports a glittering tinsel curtain; decorated top hats are taped to stalls for…
Over the past three decades, Paula Poundstone has worked as a standup comedian, political correspondent, television-show creator, cartoon-voice actor and columnist. And during that time, Poundstone has decided that the best place to be is the stage — alone with a microphone and no one else on the bill. The…
Young Americans have lots of experience with war, right? I mean, we’ve lived (very remotely) through wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and we’ve got hard-hitting blockbusters like Battleship and Red Tails to learn from. We can even step into a soldier’s shoes with video games like Call of Duty,…
The Tupperware will be real, all real, when the participatory tour-de-force Dixie’s Tupperware Party returns to the Garner Galleria Theatre tonight for another hi-larious repeat run, just in time for the holidays. And like the contents kept in Tupperware, Dixie Longate, the larger-than-life, big-haired, trailer-trash star who struts out on…
I can’t imagine that I was the only one who felt trapped by the mania of Katt Williams as I sat inside the less-than-half-full Wells Fargo Theatre last night.The first of two Denver shows on his Ghetto National Convention Tour, this was a car wreck from the start. From the…
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. The opening moments are pulse-poundingly exciting — music, live wrestling, flashing lights, tons of adrenaline from an already hyped-up audience. But the actual scripted beginning of the play is quiet, as a Puerto Rican kid called Mace describes his lifelong fascination with pro wrestling…
The opening scene of Sweet Tooth is mesmerizing: a bare stage, a woman in a fur coat standing in front of a white sheet and singing “It’s cold.” A hand appears from behind the sheet offering a glass, sprinkling water on the woman, and then the sheet is removed to…
Molly Ivins was a familiar figure in Colorado. For a while, she was the Rocky Mountain bureau chief for the New York Times. The staid gray lady had hired her away from the Texas Observer to spice up its pages, but the editors decided fairly rapidly that they didn’t want…
