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Preview by Betsy Schwarm Spoken words, stage action, live music, an engaging story of an imaginative child and her personal superhero:  what more could one desire of a theatrical experience, especially one for the entire family? It’s playwright Josh Hartwell‘s new work, Music of Flight: The Falcon. Hartwell attests that the musical element came first.  […]

A review by Lisa Bornstein Twenty years after “Reality Bites” comes “This,” Melissa James Gibson’s popular Gen-X take on middle age. In the current production by Boulder Ensemble Theater Company, the play incisively sizes up truths both timely and timeless, while also settling into some all-too-familiar dramatic ruts. In their late 30s, Gibson’s urban, middle-class […]

By Marc Shulgold It’s hard to explain our fondness for complete sets of things, but it is an inescapable craving: possessing all of the Beatles LPs (or the glorious CD box), Beethoven’s nine Symphonies, Shakespeare’s plays, the full set of “Star Wars” characters pictured on Pepsi cans (don’t laugh — my son proudly displayed them […]