2020 Colorado New Play Summit criss-crosses cultures like never before
Annual celebration of new plays had its storytelling feet planted in all sorts of different worlds
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.
Annual celebration of new plays had its storytelling feet planted in all sorts of different worlds
The groundbreaking, Denver-born play’s legacy, 20 years later: Art matters
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 […]
‘I’m grateful to young people everywhere who still believe in the power of theatre to change hearts and minds’
Lineup includes world premiere of ‘Rattlesnake Kate’ by Neyla Pekarek in the newly renovated Marvin and Judi Wolf Theatre
Playwright’s goal is to incorporate American Sign Language ‘in really beautiful and complicated theatrical ways’
A mother, a daughter and the thread of an American Dream
The mission to put an end to racist sports mascots moves into a Denver Center theatre
Homegrown project sheds light on a hidden heritage in southern Colorado
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