Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) is one of Boulder’s best, bar none. From its first production, Antigone, BETC began raising the bar for Front Range theater. With Seminar, BETC gets its eighth season started with the second lively, sly and often humorous Theresa Rebeck play it has produced. If you’ve ever been part of a group project that called for each member to provide feedback to the others, you are the target audience of Seminar. If
“Seminar” review: Short on lasting lessons, good with dark laughs
Vicious parlor gatherings appear to be in vogue. Spring brought Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage,” with its uncorked hostilities between two sets of parents, to the Curious Theatre Company. Tracy Lett’s “August: Osage County” will soon occupy the big screen. Currently the engaging Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company is plunging headlong into the regional premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s “Seminar” for its season opener. Helmed by producing director Stephen Weitz, this nasty, expertly realized bit of
FEMA deploys Ashton on eve of his starring role in ‘Seminar’
Most area actors have day jobs. John Ashton’s happens to be as communications officer with FEMA, the federal disaster response team. His first assignment was Hurricane Katrina back in 2006. Since then, he has been sent to fires, floods and tornadoes across the country to help organize the dissemination of critical public information both to victims and the media. From the moment heavy rain started on Sept. 9, triggering catastrophic
2013 Denver Post Fall Theater Preview: Take a chance on the new, a number of companies are
The bad news: Summer’s coming to a close. The good news: Autumn offers a bountiful harvest of arts and entertainment. Great theater, music, dance, visual art and more. You’ll find our critics’ picks for the best theater of the season in the article below. You’ll find our critics picks for dance, visual art, classical music and those hard-to-categorize arts by following the links here. Critics’ picks: Dance Critics’ picks: Visual Arts Critics’ picks:
Fall Theater Guide: Smaller troupes offering ambitious productions
Whether your taste runs to campy Broadway satire or drama on the “fringe,” you have plenty of theatrical choices in Boulder County and elsewhere on the Front Range this fall. More than 30 stage productions are scheduled to open between this weekend and the end of October. There are re-imaginings of familiar works — “Peter and the Starcatcher” takes us into the world of Peter Pan before he became the