PHAMALY announces its next season

PHAMALY is an amazing asset to the Colorado arts scene, a theater company composed entirely of performers facing a wide variety of physical challenges. The group’s goal is to provide professional theater opportunities and artistic development for performers with disabilities and to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in…

Seth Lepore on his one-man show, the happiness movement and infomercials

Naropa grad Seth Lepore will bring his newest one-man show, SuperHappyMelancholyexpialidocious, to Boulder this weekend. The new show targets the happiness movement, humorously critiquing everything from Oprah Winfrey to those Texas megachurches that all insist we need to be constantly chipper. We recently spoke with Lepore about the happiness movement,…

Stories on Stage shakes things up with Distant Voices on Sunday

The root of theater is storytelling, and Stories on Stage has made a practice of matching expressive words with talented actors for many years. The March 11 offering, Distant Voices, features Sherman Alexie’s short story “War Dances,” about a young man afflicted with a mysterious partial deafness who’s visiting his…

Denver Center Theatre Company announces 2012-13 schedule

Denver Center Theatre Company Artistic Director Kent Thompson has chosen his 2012-13 lineup. It contains some safe choices, some doubtless designed to appeal to high schoolers, the requisite Christmas show (not A Christmas Carol this time, but White Christmas), two scripts selected from this year’s New Play Summit — and…

Southern Baptist Sissies suffers from a didactic script

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…

Vintage Theatre finds a new home…in Aurora

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…

Q&A with Charlie Murphy – March 1, 2012

Charlie Murphy is returning to Denver with Charlie Murphy’s Acid Trip Tour for a three day stint at the Comedy Works in Larimer Square. Westword recently spoke with Murphy to see what he enjoys most about comedy…

Hot Lunch Apostles, a play by Boulder’ Sidney Goldfarb, hits New York

Hot Lunch Apostles, a play by Boulder poet and playwright Sidney Goldfarb, will open at New York’s La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre on March 1 as part of the fabled Off-off-Broadway theater’s fifty-year celebration. Produced by the Talking Band, a collaborative group that spins evocative tapestries of words, imagery and…