The 2015 Scenesters, No. 1: Christina Arias
Today we begin our daily countdown of the 10 student playwrights whose works have been selected as semifinalists for our statewide teen playwriting competition. No.…
Award-winning arts journalist John Moore has created a groundbreaking new position as the DCPA’s Senior Arts Journalist. With The Denver Post, he was named one of the 12 most influential theater critics in the US by American Theatre Magazine. He is the founder of the Denver Actors Fund, a nonprofit that raises money for local artists in medical need. John is a native of Arvada and attended Regis Jesuit High School and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Email him at jmoore@dcpa.org. Follow him on Twitter @MooreTheatre.
Today we begin our daily countdown of the 10 student playwrights whose works have been selected as semifinalists for our statewide teen playwriting competition. No.…
No. 29: Our choices for outstanding achievement by a play and musical: Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s ‘Annnapurna,’ and Town Hall Arts Center’s ‘Spring Awakening.’
The start of ‘Benediction’ rehearsals was bittersweet for cast and crew, coming so soon after the Nov. 29 death of novelist Kent Haruf.
No. 28: “Ludlow, 1914” explored the deadliest strike in U.S. history. It was developed by The LIDA Project and Colorado Springs TheatreWorks, and it was…
No. 27: Skipping “Tarzan” at the Arvada Center would have meant missing Shannan Steele as you have never seen her before: As a jungle boy’s…
No. 25: Choreographer and the Boulder native Matthew D. Peters made it plain this year he has also become a director to be reckoned with.
Assistant Stage Manager Paul Behrhorst surprised his longtime girlfriend with a marriage proposal following the Christmas Eve performance of “A Christmas Carol.”
No. 25: Actor Kristen Samu volunteered to chair what has turned out to be the Denver Actors Fund’s busiest team: Meal preparation and delivery.
No. 24: J. Michael Finley played two desperate men on opposite ends of the blue-collar color scale in “Les Miserables” and “Hands on a Hardbody”…
No. 23: Wendy Ishii learned the hard way in 2014 what Joan Didion discovered during her “Year of Magical Thinking”: “Life changes in an instant.…