When Stephen Weitz was a young boy growing up in Pennsylvania, he dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player. Then life threw him a curveball and he discovered the theater.   Today, as producing director of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC), he still deals with competition, lineups and the occasional metaphorical home run. He also still lives to hit one out of the park and leave the crowds clamoring

Though it’s known as a home to artists, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, scientists and other creative types, Boulder was pretty much a theatrical wasteland in 2006 when husband and wife Stephen Weitz and Rebecca Remaly decided to start the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. By then, Nomad, the Quonset hut that had housed community theater for decades, was being used for performances by a local high school. The town saw an occasional one-off

The Curious Theatre Company, a whopping seven-time winner of the prestigious “best year by a company” Ovation/True West Award, wasn’t even a finalist in that category this year. That’s largely because Denver’s most vital artery to the pulse of the New York theater got mired in a redundant pattern of stories about unpleasant family squabbles.   But one of them stood starkly apart: “The Brothers Size” took the ordinary premise

With risk comes rewards. That adage will hold true for theatergoers in the upcoming months as some of the area’s finest theaters mount premieres of new plays and take on other heady productions.   January   “Painted Bread (The Story of Frida Kahlo).” The artist had a gift for painting (herself, often) and a flair for the dramatic. Reason enough for the Aurora Fox to take on this vivid exploration

The prestigious 2013 True West Theater Person of the Year Award will be considered among John Ashton, Ed Baierlein, Shelly Bordas, Brian Freeland, Linda Morken, Erin Rollman, Edith Weiss, Stephen Weitz, Christopher Willard and Rick Yaconis. Weitz, winner of the 2012 award, is the rare winner to be up for consideration two years running.   A prolific and creatively surprising year in Colorado theater is reflected in the 2013 True