NEW CASTLE, Colorado ” For the last nine months, the brand new band, Shaking the Tree, has been shaking up the valley. Drummer Carl Koontz explained that they do everything from fast-paced originals ...

Kayla Hanson (left) and Kai Hynes (right) in "We Wrote This With You in Mind" Credit: photo by rick liu How you react to the set of We Wrote This With You in Mind, a new play at Shaking the Tree ...

There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve separate beds, all in one room, and each night the doors were securely locked. Yet every morning, their shoes were found worn ...

If you never want to sleep again – or to enjoy digging into a nice steak dinner – I highly recommend reading the fairy tale “The Juniper Tree,” which makes every list of “creepiest fairy tales” a ...

Watching Shaking the Tree Theatre’s darkly playful The Brother and the Bird, directed by Samantha Van Der Merwe, demands a spirit of adventure and a strong stomach. The boundary-breaking company ...

There's a reason fairy tales have been plumbed for art's sake so deeply: they're bottomless. Murky with our fears, desires and other shadowy drives, the stories of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian ...

Shaking the Tree uncovers the ugliness of a familiar fairy tale in this inventive take on "Little Red Riding Hood." ...