By Beki Pineda THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)(REVISED). Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield; directed by Nanci Van Fleet. Produced by Longmont Theatre Company (513 Main St., Longmont) through Nov. 22. Tickets available at 303-772-5200 or www.longmonttheatre.org. Note that added last word “Revised” in the title of this show. Not only
By Beki Pineda HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE. Written by Paula Vogel; directed by Liza Williams. Co-produced by square product theatre and Goddess Here Productions (Diary Center for the Arts at 2590 Walnut St., Boulder) and Buntport Theater at 717 Lipan St., Denver) through Nov. 14. Tickets available at 303-444-7328 or thediary.org through Nov. 7,
By Beki Pineda Photo Credit: BDT Stage BUDDY: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY. Written by Alan Janes; directed by Wayne Kennedy. Produced by BDT Stage (5500 Arapahoe Road) through Nov. 14. Tickets available at 303-449-6000 or www.bdtstage.com. If you lived in the late ’50s anywhere in America, you knew the music of Buddy Holly. In three
By Beki Pineda Photo Credit: Lone Tree Arts Center THE EXPLORERS CLUB. Written by Nell Benjamin; directed by Randal Myler. Produced by the Lone Tree Arts Center (10075 Commons St., Lone Tree) through Oct. 24. Tickets available at 720-509-1000 or www.lonetreeartscenter.org. While understanding the economic reasons for them, I hate two-week runs. Even if a
By Beki Pineda Photo Credit: BETC OUTSIDE MULLINGAR. Written by John Patrick Shanley; directed by Rebecca Remaly. Produced by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company at the Dairy Center for the Arts (2590 Walnut St.) through Oct. 11. The final four performances (7:30pm Friday, 2pm and 7:30 pm Saturday, 4pm Sunday) are sold out, but a wait
Touch a cloud, tangle with a tornado, create a little chaos—NCAR’s science exhibits help kids learn about weather, climate and other earth-science topics. Free. (See listing below for Super Science Saturday). Open 8am-5pm weekdays at 1850 Table Mesa Drive. scied.ucar.edu/exhibits.
I saw my first Colorado calendar while growing up in California. Replete with fantastic images of mountains, rivers, animals, columbines, aspens and the bluest of skies, the calendar made me wonder, “Does such a gorgeous place really exist?” I discovered it does after moving here 36 years ago. Since then, I’ve hiked a lot of terrain
Like many families, the Weinrauchs visit Costco each month to load up on necessities. But in their case, the necessities aren’t for them. “We give the homeless all this stuff,” says 9-year-old Torre Weinrauch. She and Zyree, her feisty 7-year-old sister, accompany their parents on Costco runs to handpick things like crackers, Band-Aids, water bottles,
For pet owners who prefer to manage their pets’ end-of-life care in their own homes, the growing national trend of pet hospice programs provides support and care. These programs work with animals who have terminal diagnoses and less than three months to live, and also generally offer in-home euthanasia services, owner emotional support and, occasionally,
If you’ve ever seen a sign like this at Lucky’s Market in Boulder, you might have asked yourself, “Who is this Connie, anyway, and why is her produce so famous?” Connie is Connie Zweck, who owns and operates Zweck’s Farm in Longmont with her husband, Tom, the great-grandson of George, who began farming the land
For most of the calendar year, the sounds in Ricardo Peña’s ears are musical: Cuban son, rock ’n’ roll, blues, bolero. The consonance of rhyming instrumentation, Spanish paeans to love and loss from a bygone era, familiar anthems and party songs from Norteamérica. When he’s leading the Ricardo Peña Band, some of the music is
Bike When You Like On a recent Tuesday at the BreakAway Cycle & Strength Studio in Longmont, a nearly full class of riders worked strategically to push their legs at the right speed and resistance to exert the exact number of watts of power needed at that moment to reach their peak performance. In a different
By Charmaine Ortega Getz “Drive the brothels out of town,” the Boulder County Herald editorialized in June 1886. “The first thing a person sees upon alighting from the cars in Boulder and the last seen on getting on the train are these institutions of infamy.” Indeed, despite an 1873 ordinance that outlawed any “bawdy house,
By Beki Pineda THE ODD COUPLE (The Female Version). Written by Neil Simon; directed by Edith Weiss. Produced by Senior Housing Options, Inc (Barth Hotel , 1514 17th St., Denver) through Aug. 22. Tickets available at 303-595-4646 X 10 or www.seniorhousingoptions.org. To develop a successful show into a franchise, some playwrights write sequels—as in the cases
By Beki Pineda; Images: Evergreen Players FORBIDDEN BROADWAY’S GREATEST HITS. Written by Gerard Alessandrini; directed by Kelly Van Oosbree; musical direction by Eric Weinstein. Produced by Evergreen Players (Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen) through Aug. 2. Tickets available at 303-674-4934 or www.evergreenplayers.org. The FORBIDDEN BROADWAY franchise began in 1982, sprung from the fertile imagination
By Beki Pineda; Image: Vintage Theatre Productions THE SPITFIRE GRILL. Written by James Valcq and Fred Alley; directed by Bev Newcomb-Madden; musical direction by Trent Hines. Produced by Vintage Theatre Productions (1468 Dayton St., Aurora) through Aug. 16. Tickets available at 303-856-7830 or vintagetheatre.org. THE SPITFIRE GRILL is based loosely on a film by Lee
By Beki Pineda; Image: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 2015 Othello Rehearsal OTHELLO. Written by William Shakespeare; directed by Lisa Wolpe. Produced by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre on the University of Colorado campus) through Aug. 8. Tickets available at 303-492-8008 or www.coloradoshakes.org. Shakespeare’s tale of jealousy and deception is given a fine telling
By Beki Pineda, Image credit: Colorado Shakespeare Festival, J. Koskinen MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Written by William Shakespeare; directed by Jim Helsinger. Produced by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre on the University of Colorado campus) through Aug. 9. Tickets available at 303-492-8008 or www.coloradoshakes.org. Between film and live performances, I’ve probably seen 20 or
By Beki Pineda; Image: Performance Now Theatre Company GUYS AND DOLLS. Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows; directed by Kelly Van Oosbree. Produced by Performance Now Theatre Company (presented at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 South Allison Parkway, Lakewood) through June 28. Tickets available at 303/987-7845 or www.performancenow.org. There
By Beki Pineda; Image: Colorado Shakespeare Festival WITTENBERG. Written by David Davalos; directed by Timothy Orr. Produced by Colorado Shakespeare Festival (at the indoor University Theatre on campus) through Aug. 8. Tickets available at 303-492-8008 or coloradoshakes.org. We find Prince Hamlet back at college after a visit to his parents in the family castle. Two of his
