Film
Colorado Film School students strut their stuff
THURSDAY. First, The Hollywood Reporter named the Colorado Film School among the world’s top 25 film schools. Then Gov. John Hickenlooper trusted the school’s students with his close-up — with a nudge from film commish Donald Zuckerman — when he agreed to star in a couple of public-service announcements for online driver’s license registration. (They began airing last week.) Thursday night, see for yourself what the Lowry-based school’s aspiring filmmakers are up to at the Fall 2011 Student Show. Free. 7 p.m. Harkins Theatre Northfield, 8300 E. 49th Ave. Lisa Kennedy
Theater
LIDA play series looks at health care, mortality
through Dec. 17. LIDA Project’s original epic, “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep,” is a series of six plays examining health care, mortality and dying in the United States. It is created and devised through a unique collaboration between the LIDA Project, community leaders and six guest directors. The result is a broad and diverse theatrical examination of one of today’s most-debated social issues. The work will be performed for public audiences, but in private residences, each part on a separate evening. 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays. 720-221-3821 for locations; . John Moore
“It’s a Wonderful Life” as a radio broadcast
through Dec. 24. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” re-creates Frank Capra’s classic film as a live radio broadcast. The story is, of course, about an ordinary man named George Bailey, who is at the end of his rope one lonely Christmas Eve. But the arrival of an unexpected visitor teaches George why his life truly matters. This staging is replete with commercial breaks, sound effects and applause signs. 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays; 7 p.m. Thursdays Dec. 1, 15 and 22; 7 p.m. Dec. 20-21. Note: The only Christmas Eve performance is at 2 p.m. At the University Mainstage, CU-Boulder campus, 303-492-0554 or . John Moore
Country music
Kinky Freidman’s “Hanukkah Tour”
thURSDAY. Kinky Friedman is the type of showman who regularly rolled through these parts in decades past — part artist, part huckster, all entertainer. The proud Texan is a country musician, prolific author, failed politician (he garnered about 13 percent of the popular vote for governor in 2006) and self-styled satirist in the tradition of Mark Twain. He’ll bring the fruits of his longest and best-known profession — as a musician — to the Oriental Theater on Thursday as part of his “Hanukkah Tour,” which includes such titles as “Ride ‘Em Jewboy” and “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore.” You have been warned. 8 p.m. $35. 4335 W. 44th Ave. 720-420-0030 or . John Wenzel
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