It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen fans will find a way to experience her work -- and now Denver has another option. After the Stage Theatre at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts sold out the entire run of Sense & Sensibility: The Musical, the troupe has added one more date to the series. The run that began April 5 will now continue through May 26. Tickets for the last date go on sale tomorrow.

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- Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company announces eighth season
- The LIDA Project takes on barriers of class and language in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape

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Mare Trevathan in Eve Ensler's "The Good Body," Aurora Fox.

#70: Mare Trevathan

Mare Trevathan gets around. The theatrical jill-of-all-trades works her chosen field from every angle: as an actor, director, teacher, talking-book reader, collaborator and public-relations expert, going from one spotlight to another as the muse moves her. Trevathan is not only a familiar face on some of the city's best stages, from Curious Theatre and the LIDA Project to the Denver Center Theatre Company, but she also finds space on some of its smaller ones, from Off-Center@The Jones to the Denver Children's Theatre at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center.

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The LIDA Project

Lorenzo Sariñana plays "Yank" in LIDA's production of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape.

The LIDA Project was named for a Soviet device that was supposedly capable of manipulating human brain-waves through the use of low-frequency radio, and for nearly two decades, this innovative theater company has offered productions that often incorporate technology in unusual ways. It latest effort is a modernized version of Eugene O'Neill's expressionist play The Hairy Ape, re-imagined as a one-man show; it opens tonight.

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- Everything adds up as the LIDA Project embarks on its 18th season
- A Critic's View on LIDA

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Dava Sobel.

The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company has just announced its upcoming season, the eighth for this troupe, and it's an intriguing one that includes three regional premieres and one significant capture: And the Sun Stood Still, a play about Copernicus and his struggle to publish On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, will have its world premiere in Boulder next spring, from March 27 through April 19, 2014.

This is the first and -- so far -- only play by eminent science writer Dava Sobel, who has authored several books and reported for both the New York Times and the New Yorker. Sobel originally published And the Sun Stood Still as a centerpiece in a book called A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. On her blog, she noted that the play had been workshopped several times and that she hoped to see it performed someday. And now it will be: in Boulder.

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- Playwright Sharr White returns to Boulder with The Other Place
- Best Actress in a Drama 2013: Laura Norman, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company

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A scene from "The Dating Game," Wildflower's live, interactive spoof on the classic dating show.

Less than four months after it opened inside Loveland's Suede Events Center, Wildflower Cabaret was forced to pack up its programming after a falling-out with the owner of the space. Wildflower founders John Seaberry and Sky Cash walked away with heavy hearts and a serious financial loss.

But the couple didn't give up on their dream. And they recently launched an aggressive Kickstarter campaign to fund a new home for Wildflower, eyeing a space on Loveland's popular Fourth Street. "We're trying to put in a theater that's smaller, more intimate -- somewhere where we can put original work up," says Seaberry. "We have a lot of great playwrights in Loveland and we'd really like a place where we can create."

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- Matthew R. Kerns on Gay Fantasia, his late-night theater immersion project
- Update: Holly Bartges, local theater critic, moves on to her next act

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Brooke C Graczyk

For Gay Fantasia, opening this weekend at Naropa University's Nalanda Campus, the audience has a chance to be direct participants in the production. The piece -- which binds the last days of Harvey Milk together with the beginning of the HIV and AIDS crisis through a personal story -- is presented in an immersive, interactive theater style.

In advance of performances this Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, we talked with Gay Fantasia "inventor" Matthew R. Kerms about the involved play, and where he found inspiration when creating it.

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- Denver PrideFest 2013 announces headliners Taylor Dayne and Martha Wash
- AIDS Adagio: photos by Wes Kennedy and Albert Winn exhibition opens tonight

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P. Switzer 2013

Jeremy Sortore (from left), William Michals and Markus Warren in Man of La Mancha.

Man of La Mancha, based on Miquel de Cervantes's seventeenth-century masterpiece Don Quixote, was an award-gobbling sensation when it was first staged in 1965. The musical has less impact now that it's been through decades of professional and community productions. Still, the Arvada Center has mounted a big, sumptuous show, filled with rich and exciting voices.

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- Phamaly's Man of La Mancha is impossibly good
- Man of La Mancha makes magic at Country Dinner Playhouse

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Michael Ensminger

Rachel Fowler in The Other Place.

Sharr White's plays have been workshopped and mounted around the country over the years, and he has received several awards -- but it was The Other Place, his piece about a brilliant woman scientist's battle with dementia, that brought him to Broadway last year. Laurie Metcalf played the scientist, Juliana; the director was Joe Mantello.

"I think it certainly gave an awareness that you are suddenly in a certain stratosphere of quality," White says. "You're writing more publicly and you need to think twice about these sentences you're putting together. And there's less stress about where the next play's going to. It does open up opportunities."

See also:
-The Other Place has its regional premiere in Boulder
-Laura Norman is back on a Colorado stage in Ghost-Writer
- Say it loud: Noises Off is a resounding success

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Michael Ensminger

Benaiah Anderson and Rachel Fowler in The Other Place.

"This is an old-boy event in which women do not appear unless to provide some kind of illicit service. And when we do appear, we do not wear heels. And when we do wear heels, if we do not immediately prove we are the smartest person in the room we are not taken seriously."

So says Juliana of a pharmaceutical conference in Sharr White's play The Other Place, which won raves in New York where it starred Laurie Metcalf and has its regional premiere in Boulder this weekend. A biophysicist who's developed a drug intended to prevent dementia, Juliana seems to have little to worry about in terms of intellect. But as the play opens, she is encountering inexplicable events and suffering from memory lapses.

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- Laura Norman is back on a Colorado stage in Ghost-Writer
- The absorbing Ghost-Writer will creep into your consciousness
- Say it loud: Noises Off is a resounding success

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Sarah Roshan

Billie McBride and Paul Page in "Pardon My Dust."

Writer, critic and colorful Algonquin Round Table yakker Dorothy Parker was really born to be a character in a play; known in her heyday for her caustic tongue and running witticisms, she left behind a diverse body of work, from comic poems to Hollywood scripts. And her life story was epic, from her beginnings as a brainy literary ingenue to a later life marked by activism and blacklists.

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- All the Street's a Stage
- A Turkey In the White House
- On the Road

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