Tag: Arvada Center
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‘Nice Work,’ Lone Tree: 17 Henry Award nominations
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Denver Center, Firehouse, Arvada Center lead Colorado companies in a wildly unpredictable year celebrating Colorado theater The Colorado Theatre Guild’s wildly unpredictable Henry Awards promise to be even more wild and unpredictable than ever when the advocacy group’s 20th annual celebration of achievements in the Colorado theater year are doled out on July 20 at…
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Pay to play: Parents’ many summer options for budding high school thespians
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Our recommendations for programs that provide training and performance opportunities for area teenagers It started with a straightforward question from my boss: Can you recommend an enjoyable summer theater-camp experience for a 15-year-old boy in the Denver metro area? The thing about summer camps is that there are enough of them out there to fill…
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From brain surgery to finding a home on stage
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‘Come From Away’ tells the story of radical hospitality – which is exactly what the Arvada Center showed in standing by an actor with epilepsy After two dormant years, it happened: A nightmare ending to Elizabeth Harlen’s fairy-tale comeback. This was, literally – a fairy tale. The cast and crew of the Arvada Center’s “Once Upon…
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Rocky Flats: Art from the atomic ashes
Jeff Gipe’s ‘Half-Life of Memory’ brings our own public health disaster back home to the Arvada Center Growing up, when my dad took the family to the company picnic, it meant roller coasters and miniature golf at Elitch Gardens. Then again, my dad worked for The Denver Post. Here’s what happened when Jeff Gipe’s dad…
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‘Come From Away’ pilots: After the unthinkable, the unforgettable
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Beverley Bass and Kelsey Crismon: One navigated the plane on 9/11, the other now steers the story on the Arvada Center stage When you hear about the celebrated Broadway musical “Come From Away,” you might naturally assume it is the story of 9/11. Well, this is your captain speaking: “It is the story of 9/12,”…
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Forty years later, Yates Theatre to reopen as funky cinema
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Arts news: The star of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s upcoming musical is from Colorado Springs; Arvada Center announces season Decades of efforts to reopen the historic Yates Theater in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood have taken a major step forward. On Monday, Denver’s Board of Adjustment approved a critical zoning adjustment that will allow the long-vacant…
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New Arvada Center CEO is Zoo’s Noelle DeLage
The Arvada Center has named Noelle DeLage, chief communications and philanthropy officer of the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance, as its next president & CEO. DeLage succeeds the retiring Philip Sneed effective July 1, just as the Arvada Center begins its 50th theater season. In a news release, the Arvada Center said DeLage has a passion…
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Arrive in ’25: Take a look at the year’s emerging class
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2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 28 Here is a representative look at some of the many breakout performances on Colorado stages this year Sure, it’s cheating to suggest that a man who has been directing and performing with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for the past seven seasons had a “breakout” anything in the…
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‘Assassins’ tops list of ’25 musicals that were ‘worthy of your love’
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 24 From a Sondheim musical about presidential killers in Golden to a new Disney classic in Arvada, Colorado musicals showed their range in 2025 When the Miners Alley Performing Arts Center decided to include the controversial Stephen Sondheim musical “Assassins” on its current season, it was more than…
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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…