Veronica Straight-Lingo speaks with BETC Managing Director Rebecca Remaly about Annapurna, premiering this weekend. Dave Ashton explores Spraycan Calligraphy: Graffiti Art from the Middle East. Plus, Booktalk, Hotshots and the Metro Arts Calendar. Click here to listen to the interview
Broadway playwright Sharr White tackles love, loss in Paonia
Listen to the interview by clicking here. Take two characters who love each other fiercely (and who hate each almost as much), put them in a small, dilapidated trailer together after 20 years apart and watch the unrelenting intensity unfold. That describes Sharr White’s latest play “Annapurna.” The play is a piece of theater evocative of Tennessee Williams now playing at the Boulder Ensemble Theater Company in a
“Annapurna”: Acting shines amid the squalor (review)
Thanks goodness for actor Chris Kendall. So went my thinking as I drove home in silence after watching the Super Bowl with a very superstitious — and demoralized — football-loving quintet. Art can be a balm. In its own way, the Sunday matinee of Sharr White’s “Annapurna” built a cushion before the dismantling. Which is a funny thing, given the tense mountain minuet taking place between Ulysses
Peak performances in new play from BETC
Color me a hopeless romantic, but I say fuck Valentine’s Day. Sure, the holiday has its liturgical and secular historical bases, but as it exists today it is nothing more than a crass, commercialized cash grab that mocks relationships and commitment while purporting to celebrate them. In the vast majority of cases, Valentine’s Day has as much to do with pure love as St. Patrick’s Day does with the banishment
Theatre Colorado reviews: Annapurna
You may wonder about the title. Who or what is an Annapurna? Annapurna a Himalayan mountain in Nepal. It was the first peak over 8,000 meters high to be summited. Frenchman Maurice Herzog led the 1950 climbing expedition, and recounted the entire experience in his book “Annapurna.” Herzog’s tremendous accomplishment, and his literary narrative, slowly devolved into a mountain of controversy that ultimately questioned whether they even made the
Meet the man who is helping put spotlight on Boulder theater
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
Boulder Ensemble Theatre makes the scene bolder
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
Here are your 2013 True West Award Winners: Spread out … or spread thin?
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
2014 theater preview: Bold choice seeking adventerous audiences
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
2013 True West Award nominations: Town Hall leads balanced field with 14 nods
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