Joan Osborne, John Mayer, and Brent Morin!
Are you ready hours of fun this weekend? You can enjoy all kinds of world-class entertainment from world class musicians and artists, to amateurs competing for top awards in the Boulder’s Got Talent. Pick your pleasure with various locations in Erie and nearby Boulder, Louisville, Denver, Lafayette and Longmont.
TODAY/TONIGHT, Thursday, March 23
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, the infamous British street artist Banksy has resisted all attempts to be captured on film. This is the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shopkeeper turned documentary maker attempts to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. Featuring footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work.
Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Rd., Longmont
7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5-$10
Info: 303-651-8374
ART & SIP: WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUES
Learn how to use watercolor to interpret the world around you. Coy Ink will teach you the methods she uses in her watercolor artwork, including tools and supplies, blending colors, painting on the go, and fun ways to practice at home. Grab a drink and get creative: beer, wine and snacks will be available for purchase in the Atrium Bar. These classes are designed to guide beginners as well as bring new skills to experienced artists and crafters. Register online or by calling 303-651-8374.
Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Rd., Longmont
7:00 p.m.
General Admission: $40
Info: 303-651-8374
Thursday-Saturday, March 23-25
FROM L.A.: BRENT MORIN
Los Angeles-based comedian Brent Morin is also an actor and writer and can be seen in the Netflix half-hour comedy special series, The Stand Ups. Additionally, his one-hour stand-up special, I’m Brent Morin, is currently streaming on Netflix.
Brent starred in the NBC sitcom Undateable, as well as Netflix and Kapital Entertainment’s holiday series Merry Happy Whatever opposite Dennis Quaid. He can also be seen in David Haskell’s feature film, The Outdoorsman, which made its world premiere at the 2017 Austin Film Festival. He has appeared on Chelsea Lately, CONAN, Comedy Central, Brooklyn 99, The McCarthys and Ground Floor and regularly performs at comedy clubs throughout the U.S.
Comedy Works Downtown, 1226 15th St., Denver
Thurs., 8:00 p.m.; Fri. 7:30 p.m.; Fri./Sat. 9:45 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$28
Phone: 720-274-6800
Thursday-Sunday, March 23-26
FRENCH CINEMA: FULL TIME
Julie (Laure Calamy) can’t catch a break. For a single mother raising two children in the suburbs of Paris but working in the city, the commuter train is a lifeline–and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike. Without the train, Julie can’t get to her job as the head maid at a five-star hotel–or to the interview for a better job she has lined up. Out of desperation, Julie turns to neighbors and her own gutsy resourcefulness to commute into the city for work, barely making it back in time to pick up her kids before dinner. Worse yet: it’s only Monday.
Julie is at her breaking point and soon finds herself bending the rules to stay afloat in a ruthless society as her responsibilities pile up. Anchored by Calamy’s powerful performance, Full Time is an impossible race against time and a kinetic thriller assembled from the everyday obstacles faced by working parents everywhere.
Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Afternoon/Evening Showings
Admission: $12
Info: 303-440-7826
1776 NOW SHOWING!
The Tony Award-winning Best Musical 1776 catapults to blazing new life in a thrillingly new production from directors Jeffrey L. Page (Violet) and Diane Paulus (Waitress). New York Magazine/Vulture says, “it’s an absolute blast!” Suddenly, the songs, humor, and passion of this musical masterpiece soar as never before. A glorious cast that reflects multiple representations of race, gender, and ethnicity portrays the fiery founders of this country, putting history in the hands of the humans who were left out the first time around—and the result is an epic show of passion, debate, and roof-raising musical fireworks. Experience “a 1776 worth celebrating!” (Variety) “It pulsates with energy and snaps with attitude.” You may never think about our country—who we are and why—the same way again.
Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver
Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat./Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $35-$135
INFO: 720-865-4220
THE 25th PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
THE HEAVYWEIGHTS Present –The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee! When will Audrey be a big girl? Why can’t The Phantom be 250lbs? THE HEAVYWEIGHTS premiere their madcap, BODY POSITIVE, rambunctious, Three Man production which is a celebration of storytelling, no matter what size or shape you are! These comedic and vocal powerhouses will show you that it doesn’t matter what you look like take the final bow!
Try not to blink…these three play every role and switch characters in almost EVERY scene! This is the Spelling Bee you know and love but turned on its head! Featuring “Magic Foot”, “The I Love You Song” and “My Unfortunate Erection”! Music and Lyrics by William Finn, from the book by Rachel Sheinken. This frivolous evening will determine this year’s SPELLING BEE champ! Come find out who wins in this never before seen version of THE HEAVYWEIGHTS’ The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Garner Galleria Theater, DCPA Complex, 14th and Curtis St., Denver
Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat./Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$42
Friday-Saturday, March 24-25
ROGUE CO. DANCE COMPANY
Rogue Co. Dance Company presents its newest evening-length work, un/becoming. This body of work aims to evoke thought about the process in which we become our true selves. The transformations and evolution we undergo within a lifetime are often viewed as a sum of the experiences that build who we are. What if, instead, we approached this process, often uncomfortable and unflattering, as a shedding of unnecessary and inauthentic layers to reveal who we truly are?
Under the Artistic Direction of Meghan Lawitz, Rogue Co. is a contemporary dance company based out of Denver. Rogue Co. “is here to inspire and influence the world of dance through powerful movement and rich storytelling.”
Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Thurs., 7:00 p.m.; Fri., 4:00 p.m.; Sat., 5:30 p.m.; Sun., 11:00 a.m.
Tickets: $12
Info: 303-440-7826
BOULDER MAGIC SHOW
Direct from Las Vegas, comedy magician Ben Young, who has appeared on the hit CW TV show Penn and Teller: Fool Us and thrills audiences worldwide, brings his interactive and absolutely hilarious magic show to the Dairy Arts Center! He’s toured internationally, thrilling U.S. troops and their families at over 70 military bases, and performs regularly in major Las Vegas casinos.
The best part about the Boulder Magic Show is that it appeals to all ages. The humor is family-friendly and the magic is universally awe-inspiring. You will be thinking about that big finale long after you leave the theater. This show is filled with inspiring music, magic, and hilarious comedy. Get your tickets now to see the funniest magic show you will ever experience.
Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$25
Info: 303-440-7826
Friday-Saturday, March 24-25
SOMETHING ROTTEN
Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz. Hailed by Time Out New York as “the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years.”
Boulder Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, CO
Sat., 6:00 p.m., Sun., 12:00 p.m.
Tickets: $70
Info: 303-449-6000, ext. 4
Saturday, March 25
JOAN OSBORNE IN BOULDER
Joan Osborne is an eight-time Grammy nominee and multi-platinum selling recording artist. A native of Kentucky, she moved to New York City to attend NYU Film School, but dropped out after becoming involved in New York’s downtown music scene. Her 1995 album Relish was a critical and commercial success and spawned the international hit single and video “One Of Us.” She directed the video for Relish’s second single “St. Teresa” and created the artwork for the album’s physical package. She has traveled the U.S. and the world for over 25 years performing in clubs, theaters, arenas and stadiums, with her own band and as a featured vocalist.
Osborne founded her own independent label, Womanly Hips Records, in 1991 and has performed duets with Luciano Pavarotti, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Patti Smith, Emmylou Harris, Isaac Hayes and many others. She toured with the post-Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead and with Motown’s Funk Brothers, as well as with Gospel diva Mavis Staples.
Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder
6:00 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $74
Phone: 303-786-7030
Sunday, March 26
LOUIS COLE BIG BAND
Louis Cole is a Los Angeles based singer songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Celebrated as one of the world’s most future-sonic-funk drummers and co-founder of KNOWER, his mission is “to create deep feelings through music.” Cole has proudly been DIY to date, amassing millions of views with his viral videos like “Bank Account,” and arrives with his third album Time, out now on Brainfeeder. Time is a casual but addictive blend of quickfire, hook-laden electrofunk bullets and wistful, soft-focus balladry—and it’s compelling. Known for presenting a show that you will never forget, witness Louis Cole’s tour featuring a blazing line up of special guests.
Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder
6:00 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $60
Phone: 303-786-7030
Next Week: Thursday, March 30
WALKING TOUR MUSEUM SECRETS
Museums are only able to display a small fraction of their total historic collection at any one time. On this special behind-the-scenes tour with Curator of History Erik Mason, see the thousands of objects that the Museum has collected over the last 80+ years and learn some of the stories they can tell us. Pre-registration is required; this event will sell out. Instructions on how to get to the Collections Center will be sent to registrants.
Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Rd., Longmont
1:00 p.m.
General Admission: $12
Info: 303-651-8374
HERMANOS GUTIERREZ
Brothers Alejandro and Stephan (nee Estevan) Gutiérrez-Holtz are Hermanos Gutiérrez. Using traditional guitar, lap steel, and organic percussion (bongo and maracas), their instrumental music evokes impressions of remote spaces and untamed wild places, from the Ecuadorian beaches and coastlines to the deserts of Mexico and the American Southwest. The duo also draw primary inspiration from the spaghetti western soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and Stelvio Cipriani, vintage psychedelia, and classic Latin and South American music from the 1950s through the ’70s. 8 Anos, their debut album, appeared in 2017, evoking symbolic soundscapes haunted by the ghosts of outlaws, vaqueros, pilgrims, rootless wanderers, and devastated lovers.
Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder
6:00 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $63
Phone: 303-786-7030
Thursday-Saturday, March 30-April 1
DUSTY SLAY LIVE
Dusty Slay talks about universal truths and their absurdity. “I looked at everything as experience,” he says. “Let’s not get mad about it, let’s enjoy it.” At 36, Slay has become the youngest comedian to ever perform on the legendary Grand Ole Opry stage in his adopted hometown of Nashville. To date he’s logged a dozen appearances in front of “his people” on the historic stage in the last couple years and has been asked by the CMA to host their festival’s Forever Country Stage to keep fans laughing between appearances of the biggest stars in country music.
The breakout comedian has appeared on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up Featuring and is set for a third appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. In 2019 he joined Comedy Central’s Clusterfest and has previously performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Comic Standing, I Laughs on Fox in addition to regular stints on The Bob & Tom Radio Show and a host of live appearances across the country. Slay is one of a handful of comedians to appear on Season 3 of Netflix’s popular The Standups.
Comedy Works Downtown, 1226 15th St., Denver
Thurs., 8:00 p.m.; Fri. 7:30 p.m.; Fri./Sat. 9:45 p.m.
Tickets: $16-$24
Phone: 720-274-6800
Thursday-Sunday, March 30-April 2
FACING MONSTERS
Facing Monsters digs deep into the psyche of West Australian surfer Kerby Brown, a man whose connection with the ocean runs as deep as his love for his family. Far more than just a surfing story, it’s an unapologetic musing into the essence of Kerby and his family as we join them on his quest to ride a ferocious slab wave in the deep Southern Ocean that no one on the planet has surfed before.
Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Afternoon/Evening Showings
Admission: $12
Info: 303-440-7826
Friday, March 31
BOULDER’S GOT TALENT
Are you ready to ZING? Then you won’t want to miss Zing for Zonta: Boulder’s Got Talent a showcase of local performers sharing their talents to support The Zonta Foothills Foundation. Musicians… Comedians…Dancers…Jugglers…Performing dogs? You can see it all during this night of fun and entertainment. And it’s for a great cause; all proceeds support Zonta Foothills programs that help to Build a Better World for Women and Girls. Since 2011, Zing has raised funds to support education, health, economic stability, and safety.
This year the Zonta Foothills Club of Boulder County celebrates 40 years as a chapter of Zonta International. Together with the Zonta Foothills Foundation, it has improved the lives of women and girls in our local community and internationally.
Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $65
Info: 303-440-7826
COLORADO’S OWN: FY5
Colorado’s FY5 proudly swim in the deep currents of American music, playing new songs, well-informed of country and bluegrass traditions, but not bound to them. Featuring thoughtful arrangements, strong singing and musicianship, the band strives to connect to listeners with stories of common struggles and big ideas. While their sound evokes timelessness, it is decidedly contemporary, well-traveled 21st century sensibility that informs their songwriting.
Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20
Info: 303-665-0599
Friday-Sunday, March 31-April 2
THE COLOR PURPLE
A Pulitzer Prize. A National Book Award. Eleven Academy Award nominations. Four Golden Globe Nominations. And…Three Tony Awards. Few stories have had the cultural significance and lasting power of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.
Beloved by audiences worldwide, The Color Purple traces one woman’s fraught journey towards freedom and self-love. It begins with 14-year-old Celie Harris, pregnant with her second child and the victim of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of her male family members. As she comes of age, her babies are taken from her, she is married off to an abusive husband, and her sister runs away, leaving Celie gut-wrenchingly alone, spirit broken.
Step by tiny step — and with the help of two courageous Black women — our hero rises up, gains her independence, and rebuilds her life from scratch. The musical adaptation of The Color Purple features awe-inspiring soul, gospel, jazz, and blues vocals underpinned by raw dialogue and a masterful plot. It is a triumphant, uplifting piece of art that reaffirms some fundamental truths. This weekend’s preview performances will be slightly discounted!
Wolf Theater, DCPA Complex, 13th and Arapahoe St., Denver
Fri./Sat., 7:00 p.m.; Sun., 1:30 p.m.
Tickets: $35-$76
THE FOREIGNER
The Foreigner is a fun, two-act comedy by American playwright Larry Shue. The story takes place in a fishing lodge in rural Tilghman County, Georgia where two Englishmen, Froggy and Charlie, arrive as guests. The shy Charlie agreed to accompany Froggy on the trip after his sick wife begged him to go. When people at the lodge try to talk to Charlie, however, he remains silent: he is terribly shy, depressed about his wife’s illness, and cannot find the words to reply. Froggy claims that Charlie cannot talk because he is a “foreigner” from an exotic country and does not understand English. Taking the explanation that he’s a non-English speaker as fact, the lodge’s guests quickly begin revealing their secrets, and Charlie soon discovers scandals amongst some of the residents of the lodge.
Jesters Theater, 224 Main St., Longmont
Fri./Sat., 7:30 p.m., Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $22-$50
Saturday, April 1
COVENHOVEN LIVE
Covenhoven is nationally recognized indie artist Joel Van Horne, a multi-instrumental singer-songwriter whose rich harmonies, reedy baritone and commanding falsetto have found a home with critics and fans since 2013. Through four full-length albums and 2 EPs Covenhoven has forged a signature style; layered acoustic arrangements that roll with momentum into orchestral peaks, accompanied by lyrics that contrast hard-won wisdom with the inherent hope of the natural world—from Big Sur to his native Colorado.
Regularly touring the United States, Covenhoven has shared the stage with Grammy winners and nominees S.Carey (Bon Iver), Jose Gonzalez, Gregory Alan Isakov, and John Paul White (Civil Wars). Covenhoven has also performed with genre bending artists Leif Vollebekk, Lord Huron, Joshua James, Blind Pilot, Esme Patterson, John Craigie, Daniel Rodriguez (Elephant Revival), Shook Twins, Reed Foehl, Rainbow Girls, Joan Shelley and a host of others.
Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20
Info: 303-665-0599
Monday, April 3
JOHN MAYER SOLO TOUR
American singer-songwriter and guitarist John Clayton Mayer grew up in Fairfield County, CT, spent two years at Berklee College of Music in Boston, then quit school and moved to Atlanta in 1997 with Clay Cook. Together, they formed a short-lived two-man band named Lo-Fi Masters. Today, the popular singer-songwriter (and sometimes actor) is on tour exploring old favorites and new creations with an uber expensive Martin custom double-neck guitar.
Adult pop-rock is his bread and butter, and in his own words, “I don’t make music for the club. I make music for the omelette on the Sunday after the club” — a time when we’re all 
the most honest with ourselves. The essence of John Mayer’s music is honest, nostalgic and raw. It is metaphorical yet direct. John Mayer makes music that describes what you’re going through, even if you don’t realize you’re going through something. He finds the metaphors and analogies that help life make sense, even when it doesn’t.
You’ll likely hear some of his top 10 hits including Stop This Train, Half of My Heart, his Grammy-winning single Daughters and Tom Petty’s 1989 classic Free Fallin’. The soft guitar rocker with a raspy-smooth voice can enchant just about anyone.
Ball Arena, Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $99
Tuesday, April 4
ZAKIR HUSSAIN PERCUSSIONIST
“If there is such a thing as a tabla superstar, Indian virtuoso Zakir Hussain is it.” – Chicago Tribune
Vibrant, illustrious, phenomenal. Zakir Hussain, classical tabla virtuoso, has established himself as one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians, renowned for his genre-defying collaborations. “Masters of Percussion,” an offshoot of Hussain’s memorable tours with his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, has enjoyed successful tours for decades. Featuring uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity, the ensemble includes great percussionists from many world traditions, including jazz, as well as the occasional stringed instrument.
Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $23-$90
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