Piper Lindsey Arpan is Feeling Glorious! Piper Lindsey Arpan has been dancing for as long as she can remember. Her mom would even say it started in the womb. Raised in South Carolina where she studied every dance style available, Arpan’s passion was evident early on, from performing in local parades to pursuing rigorous technical training […]
Meet the five improvisers who make a new Shakespearean masterpiece each night. Founded in Chicago in 2005, The Improvised Shakespeare Company® has become one of the most acclaimed improv troupes in the world. Based on a single audience suggestion — the title of a play that has never been written — the company creates a […]
When Thomas Beeker walked across the Ellie Caulkins Opera House stage as a 2022 Bobby G Award winner, Denver audiences knew they would see him again. And just four years later, he is part of the North American tour of Les Misérables. “Every time I think about it, I can’t imagine doing anything else,” Thomas […]
Local musicians are tapped to step into the orchestra pits of Broadway shows as they tour across the country. A Denver Orchestra With Deep Roots Most national Broadway tours travel with only a small core of musicians; the remaining artists are hired locally. It is a model built on trust — trust that a city will […]
From the archives: this article was originally published on November 17, 2022 Forbidden Broadway returns to the Garner Galleria Theatre with Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song, roasting more than 30 Broadway hits. A New York sensation for over 35 years, the talented quintet of comic chameleons throws out pointed parodies at a dizzying […]
More and more often, Colorado is producing top notch talent headed to Broadway. Case in point, Overland High School (Class of 2020) graduate Gabriella Shead who we caught between shows as she transitioned from Company Management Production Assistant on THE WIZ tour launch to Assistant Company Manager on THE BOOK OF MORMON tour. “Truly, my […]
Coloradan Christy Oberndorf is proudly touring the country with Hairspray, and it all started when her elementary school took a trip to the former Country Dinner Playhouse to see Frosty the Snowman. Christy grew up in Aurora, Colorado and did not come from a family of performers, so it really was a student matinee that […]
The title of the show is Annie, but it is no secret that the dogs that play Sandy have their own spotlight. Since 1976 Bill Berloni has been training the rescue dogs playing Sandy. The dog, according to the script by Charles Strouse, Thomas Meehan and Martin Charnin, is described as medium-sized, sandy color of […]
From May 6 through October 22 (extended by popular demand) the company of the world premiere Miss Rhythm – The Legend of Ruth Brown by Sheryl McCallum and David Nehls rocked The Garner Galleria Theatre for 141 fantastic performances. The intimate cabaret experience, based on the book Miss Rhythm by Ruth Brown with Andrew Yule, […]
Cydney Kutcipal (They/Them), from Loveland, Colorado, is making their professional debut in Jagged Little Pill appearing in the ensemble and understudying the role of Jo, a debut they landed at the end of their junior year of college at Shenandoah University. For the past year Cydney has been performing in the show eight times a […]