Using poetry, gospel music and long-distance running to burn through pain, this powerful story follows a young Black girl who runs for her life from Brooklyn to Harlem in Local Theater Company’s production of “A Case for Black Girls Setting Central Park on Fire,” produced at 7:30 p.m.Thursdays through Saturdays, and 2 p.m. matinees Sundays, Friday through Oct. 25, at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $11-$57; thedairy.org.

A young woman befriends a psychic and learns she may be the one with the unusual abilities in the ghost story “The Thin Place,” staged by the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, Friday through Oct. 26, at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $17-$48; thedairy.org.

Drawing from folk and gospel musi

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