About John Moore, Senior Arts Journalist

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.

Entries by John Moore, Senior Arts Journalist

March in Colorado theatre: New plays, new looks at timeless classics

March 1, 2020 in Other Theatres /by John Moore, Senior Arts Journalist

In Boulder, BDT Stage revisits its triumphant staging of Ragtime

2020 Colorado New Play Summit criss-crosses cultures like never before

February 28, 2020 in New Play Summit, Theatre Company /by John Moore, Senior Arts Journalist

Annual celebration of new plays had its storytelling feet planted in all sorts of different worlds

How ‘The Laramie Project’ changed theatre – and the world

February 25, 2020 in Theatre Company /by John Moore, Senior Arts Journalist

The groundbreaking, Denver-born play’s legacy, 20 years later: Art matters

Moisés Kaufman on ‘The Laramie Project’ from process to production

February 25, 2020 in Theatre Company /by John Moore, Senior Arts Journalist

Video above: Moisés Kaufman and Donovan Marley announce the partnership that would bring the world-premiere staging of ‘The Laramie Project’ to Denver in 2000. ‘As this incident had taken place in the West, it became important to us to premiere our piece in the West’ Note: The following is an essay written by Tectonic Theater […]