Movements for women’s equality and opportunity reach throughout history, culminating in this country with the women’s suffrage movement, which marked its own beginnings with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights event in U.S. history. Today, groups throughout Colorado continue to carry the banner for equality and empowerment: Colorado Black Women for Political […]
This much they knew: the DeLorean would have to fly. As screenwriters Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis contemplated bringing their beloved 1985 film, Back to the Future, to the stage, they were aware that not everything would transfer. Audiences in 2024 wouldn’t have the same appetite for the terrorists pursuing Doc, for example, and the […]
Tartans, pine needles and bows have filled three decades in the memories of families who make A Christmas Carol part of their annual holiday tradition. Prominent in those memories is the sight and sound of the young children who have stepped onstage as Tiny Tim in the Denver Center Theatre Company production. As the company […]
In September of 1877, Susan B. Anthony, accustomed to packing auditoriums in her drive for women’s suffrage, held court outdoors under the pines of Lake City in Hinsdale County, Colorado – the crowd was too large for any indoor venues. She was mustering support for a referendum on women’s suffrage, but even her formidable presence […]
“I’m one of the few people who won’t say, ‘Well, I grew up in a haunted house. I didn’t grow up in a haunted house,” says ghost hunter Bryan Bonner. Bonner is explaining how he ended up working on the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society, which investigates claims of ghosts and other unexplained activity across […]
Former Rocky Mountain News Theatre Critic Lisa Bornstein and current fourth grade math teacher at Polaris Elementary School gives her first-hand account of her school’s participation in the 40th annual DPS Shakespeare Festival. It was 10am on Friday, April 26 when downtown Denver’s Skyline Park came alive with Roman senators, harlequins, a living brick wall […]
The Lehman Trilogy, the Tony Award-winning play by Italian playwright Stefano Massini, is a wholly American tale. A German-Jewish immigrant arrives in America, opens a dry goods store in Alabama, and by 1850 has brought along his two brothers in the founding of a trading firm that will become the fourth-largest investment bank in the […]
It seems that Lex Liang does everything: Not only the costumes and sets for Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Emma, but through his company, LDC Design, environments for theater, restaurants, boutiques and special events. “I don’t know about everything,” Liang says from his home in New York. “I would not put me on an organized sports […]
It takes something extra to adapt a 200-year-old classic novel that has already been adapted multiple times for stage and screen. Call it guts – call it ovaries – but actor/playwright Kate Hamill has now adapted five novels of Jane Austen, with her latest, Emma, staged at Denver Center Theatre Company. “Jane Austen was a […]
That buzz you heard the last weekend of February was the sound of creation at Denver Center Theatre Company, where the Colorado New Play Summit sold 2,000 tickets to audiences of playwrights, industry professionals and theater fans. Audiences were treated to staged readings of four new works: Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley and […]