Author: John Moore
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Denver School of the Arts theater students: These kids are all right
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 12 One high school has generated about $58,000 since 2014 to help the Denver Actors Fund pay down Colorado theater artists’ medical bills Everyone had a potentially traumatic first day of school. The kind that can go either way: Either some older kid smells your fear, seizes on…
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Husbands and wives keep the home fire burning on stage
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 11 Married couple Marco and Adriane Robinson were romantically paired three times in 2025, while Shakespeare duo’s love was in full Boulder bloom Is there anything more irresistible than for a romantic leading man to be paired with a romantic leading lady who happens to be his romantic…
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Denver comic’s memoir comes to life at 2026 Sundance Film Festival
“See You When I See You,” a new film adaptation of Denver standup comedian Adam Cayton-Holland’s deeply personal memoir “Tragedy Plus Time,” will have its world-premiere screening the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, running Jan. 22–Feb. 1, 2026, in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. An at-home program will be made available for online viewers…
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DU’s tech interns: If you want it built, they will come
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 10 Innovative program gives future theater professionals paid, real-life experience building sets for area plays and musicals One: Technical theater students need practical, real-world experience before graduating, same as plumbers, electricians and accountants. Two: The cost of staging live theater has surged across-the-board since the pandemic. Inflation, labor,…
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Nicole Harrison will give you the shirt on your back
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 9 Prolific costume designer had a hand in the making of 60 theatrical endeavors in 2025, surely the most of anyone in Colorado I’m pretty sure I first met Nikki Harrison in 1995 while mutually fanboy/girling a popular Denver funk ‘n punk band called the Psychodelic Zombiez. Tom…
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Ed Reinhardt’s magical 27-year run on the stage ends
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 8 University of Colorado football star found a new home and purpose with Magic Moments after devastating brain injury Every time Ed Reinhardt walks into a room, he will look you straight in the eye and introduce himself. That is, if you also happen to be nearly 7…
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Philip Sneed takes the high road out after Arvada Center’s 50th season ends
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 7 After leading the company back from the existential crisis of the shutdown, retiring president and CEO is enjoying a record-breaking year. Philip Sneed sure knows how to make an exit. After insistently building the Arvada Center back from the pandemic with dogged positivity, the genial but resolute…
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Full ‘swing’: Daughter steps into mom’s iconic Mrs. Fezziwig role
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 6 Talk about mirror images! Denver Center replacement actor Olivia Wilson steps into ‘A Christmas Carol’ role mom Leslie O’Carroll made iconic It was only the first act of the third preview performance of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s latest seasonal production of “A Christmas Carol,” and Steve…
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High flying, adored: Cleo Parker Robinson is dancing on air at 77
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 5 Denver dance trailblazer’s historic year included first solo dance performance in four decades Cleo Parker Robinson is a trailblazer – and the fire that fuels her was smoking hot throughout her historic 77th rotation around the sun. Just today, the Association of Performing Arts Professionals announced that Parker…
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The next Nickelson? Your new white knight just might be a Black Cowboy
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 4 The founder of Emancipation Theatre ‘is a prophet,’ says Denver blues legend Erica Brown I asked “the” Erica Brown how she would introduce formidable independent Denver theater practitioner Jeff Campbell to a stranger. Brown had stepped away from her busy itinerary as Denver’s Queen of the Blues…