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Three local theater productions to catch or skip: Arvada Center, Phamaly Theatre Company and Vintage Theatre. Toni Tresca. Boulder Weekly.

Local Theater Company Will Introduce 10 New American Plays in 2021 The 2020 Local Lab was canceled due to COVID-19, but the Boulder theater company is planning for a larger, more inclusive slate of new playwrights to feature in the new year. Corinne Anderson •   December 16, 2020 Just 24 hours before the Local Theater Company’s annual three-day festival, Local Lab, was to kick off in Boulder this year, it was canceled due to COVID-19. More than 20 artists, including playwrights, dramatur...

In honor of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the Boulder Chamber Players commissioned an intriguing theatrical-musical event: Incessant Hum: Beethoven 2020, featuring the later works, which were composed after Beethoven became deaf. Artistic director Barbara Hamilton enlisted the aid of award-winning actor-director Mare Trevathan and playwright Jeffrey Neuman, himself profoundly hearing impaired, to create the piece. The task was daunting, Neuman says, “because I wanted to serve Beethoven well...