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boulderweekly.com | Toni Tresca
Courtesy: Rabbit Hole Recreation Services In China, it’s bigger than Dungeons & Dragons and easier to find than a McDonald’s. But in the U.S., Jubensha — a character-driven mystery game that began taking off just a decade ago — has flown almost entirely under the radar. That’s beginning to change, thanks to Rabbit Hole Recreation Services, a Louisville-based entertainment company launched in 2018.
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1 week ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
That’s what makes Pericles: An Adaptive Performance for People with Cognitive Disabilities so revolutionary. "There is so much language around theater companies being 'safe spaces' at the moment but this work actually is a safe place," says Pericles assistant director Natasha Haward. "It’s a space where it doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve been through.
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1 week ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
Immersive creator James Lopez has long been drawn to places where history runs just beneath the surface, and few places hold more untold stories than Denver’s Auraria Campus. Growing up in Greeley, Lopez said he felt disconnected from his cultural roots, a result of generations being encouraged to assimilate for safety. That personal longing for connection led him to Auraria, where cultures once thrived at the confluence of two rivers before being displaced as Denver grew.
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2 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
It began as a small production by the rebellious British Columbia-based theater company, Atomic Vaudeville, in 2008 — a quirky little musical about six dead teenagers stuck in limbo after a roller coaster crash, vying for a second chance at life. With its mix of absurdist humor, heartfelt ballads and genre-hopping songs, Ride the Cyclone quickly snowballed into a cult favorite, propelled by viral TikToks and a fiercely devoted fan base.
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2 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
For HOLDTIGHT, the Denver-based experiential dance theater company, art has never been something you just watch — it spills into the senses, inviting participants to taste, move, listen and feel their way through an experience. Food becomes choreography, storytelling becomes sustenance and audiences are co-creators in the moment.
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2 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
"Listen to Your Mother literally changed my life," says Pam Moore, co-producer of Boulder’s Listen To Your Mother show. In 2013, Moore was a part-time occupational therapist and a new mom adrift in the whirlwind of early motherhood when she stumbled upon an opportunity that would redefine her path. "I was working super part-time and was just going, ‘Who am I since having had a child?’" Moore recalls.
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2 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
What if the emotions from Pixar's Inside Out grew up, got fabulous and hit the stage in heels? That’s exactly what audiences can expect at Inside Drag, a dazzling new show from the House of L’Whor, a local drag family, that brings adult feelings to life through the lens of drag. Happening Thursday, May 1, at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station inside the Perplexiplex, the show reimagines the iconic characters from Pixar’s animated hit, like Joy and Sadness, with a grown-up, glittery makeover.
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2 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
Growing up, Maxwell O’Neill’s childhood home was filled with relics of the past — vinyl records, CDs, VHS tapes —treasures collected by his father and lovingly preserved. "When I was younger, I made a smart-ass joke and started calling it the ‘Museum of Obsolete Technology,’ which my dad loved," O'Neill says.
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2 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
"He was really lonely," his mom, Ava Henrickson, says. "He was really depressed, but we didn't know it because he was traveling, taking all these pictures and posting them. They are beautiful pictures, but a lot of them are also really dark, especially the ones toward the end, right before he died. They're practically dark blue and black pictures of water and rocks. I think for him it was a way to kind of ease his anxiety and his depression and have something to do to get out there and not be alone.
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3 weeks ago | 
westword.com | Toni Tresca
With a name like The Greatest Comedy Show in the World, expectations are sky-high — and that's exactly the point. “The title was a little bit of a first idea, best idea kind of thing,” says core member and performer Angela Davila, laughing. "Yeah, I looked it up, and I was just like, ‘Cool. I don't think there's any other show named this,' so we went with it," adds fellow founding member and performer Zach McHale.
