Amid stiff competition, Colorado arts groups will receive nearly $300,000 in funding for various nonprofit arts programs from the National Endowment for the Arts, the organization announced this week. Sixteen Colorado organizations have been recommended to receive between $10,000 and $55,000 each to support programs as diverse as music education, community theater, literature, film festivals and rural artist-in-residence programs. The $291,000 for Colorado arts organizations is part of
BETC Receives NEA Art Works Grant
Boulder, CO— National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced yesterday that the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company received an NEA Art Works grant. BETC is recommended for a $10,000 grant to support the March 2014 world premiere production of Dava Sobel’s play And The Sun Stood Still. The publication of Copernicus’ masterpiece, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, transformed the history of science and man’s understanding of
Reviews: “Santaland Diaries,”
The SantaLand Diaries (* * * stars out of 4, Satire) Move over, Ebenezer, a sharp-tongued Elf named Crumpet’s got you beat when it comes to tart holiday observations. “Bah, humbug” isn’t exactly his riff. Indeed, a fair amount of his dialogue can’t be repeated in a newspaper. But as embodied (very much so) by Matt Zambrano in “The SantaLand Diaries,” he’s got things to say about the
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, Fiske Planetarium to join forces
Boulder arts fans can anticipate a feast of the senses in fall 2015. That’s when the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company and Fiske Planetarium hope to unveil their collaboration under a grant the BETC recently received from the Boulder Arts Commission’s Arts and Business Collaborative. BETC received the $25,000 grant to create a “Star Power Series” of events incorporating live performance with planetarium projection technology in the Fiske Planetarium Theater. BETC,
Matt Zambrano on playing David Sedaris in The SantaLand Diaries
We all love Christmas. And we all hate Christmas. For the side of us that bitterly embraces the latter, David Sedaris’s The SantaLand Diaries essay is the ideal method for steeping in your own Scroogeness. Chronicling the true story of Sedaris’s move to New York, where he becomes depressed and sadistic while working at Macy’s SantaLand during the Christmas season, this tale of working-class cynicism has struck a chord with
Boulder Arts Commission backs BETC’s integrated theatre project
Boulder Co. — The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) was awarded the Boulder Arts Commission’s Arts and Business Collaborative Grant on Wednesday evening, November 21, 2013. The $25,000 award was received for a proposed collaboration with Fiske Planetarium. These partnering organizations will create a “Star Power Series” of immersive events incorporating state-of-the-art planetarium projection technology with live performance. BETC is regionally recognized for its world and regional premiere productions, and
‘Seminar’ a tutorial in exquisite theater
Great theater isn’t just about entertainment, it’s about making us think — whether through laughter, tears or the vitriolic excesses of a play such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” “Seminar” doesn’t quite reach those bombastic heights, but when it hits its stride, this searing deconstruction of the literary establishment packs a considerable punch. Presented by the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company at The Dairy Center, this regional premiere of Theresa
Successful writers, like most notable artists…
Successful writers, like most notable artists, carry a reverential and romantic aura. Those who aspire to such a life are desperate to learn how to manifest this magic on their own account. In Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, we eavesdrop on four aspiring writers who have paid $5,000 each to have their work analyzed by a name author. As with any profession, writing has its touchstones that enable philanthropists, award committees, and
SEMINAR has the write stuff
Anyone who has ever attended a writers’ workshop (guilty!) will recognize the characters in Click|keyword[Stephen+Weitz]” href=”http://www.westword.com/related/to/Stephen+Weitz/” title=”Stephen Weitz”>Stephen Weitz, Click|keyword[John+Ashton]” href=”http://www.westword.com/related/to/John+Ashton/” title=”John Ashton”>John Ashton (a Westword staff writer decades ago) is a suitably foul-mouthed and morally ambiguous Leonard, and Click|keyword[Devon+James]” href=”http://www.westword.com/related/to/Devon+James/” title=”Devon James”>Devon James makes Kate pleasantly disheveled, accomplishing an interesting transformation toward the end, and as Izzie, Click|keyword[Sean+Scrutchins]” href=”http://www.westword.com/related/to/Sean+Scrutchins/” title=”Sean Scrutchins”>Sean Scrutchins, he becomes almost incoherently so. The blacker the humor, the more interesting the action, so
There is a simple elegance about BETC…
Reviewer Beki Pineda is a 30-year veteran of the Denver theater scene as a former teacher and director. She has owned and operated All Propped Out, a theatrical prop rental house, and for 14 years reviewed theater for the former publication Time Out for Entertainment. She is a both professional theatergoer with a true love for the art and an unabashed theater groupie. The WOW Factor for each production