Tag: Arvada Center
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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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‘Frozen’ is melting Arvada Center box-office records
Disney musical will set all-time revenue mark even before it opens on Friday Performing-arts organizations are entering the most critical time of the year for revenue, and the Arvada Center, for one, is ready to meet the moment – and rub its feet. Arts nonprofits live on the tiniest of margins, and any formula for sustainability…
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Pride in Place: Arvada holds its first Americana Pride Month concert
Situated smack dab in the middle of Pride Month is a twangy concert reverberating the importance of counterculture throughout art. The Jefferson County Library and the Arvada Center will be holding its first “Pride in Place” concert on Thursday at the Arvada Center’s Mainstage Theater, highlighting local country, Americana and bluegrass artists that identify within…
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Guns and hoses: Cops take on firefighters in inaugural Arvada charity softball tourney
First responders relish opportunity to interact with community ‘with their families, kids, and having fun.’
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Actor Penny Dwyer taught her daughter to laugh at sadness
When my friend Penny Dwyer started losing her hair to chemotherapy, she did not despair. She let her 17-year-old daughter cut off what was left of it and turn it into a silly Tik-Tok video. “I gave her the worst haircut of her life,” Becca Dwyer said of a trendy look that left the back…
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Arvada Center to serve up slice of popular musical ‘Waitress’ next season
The Arvada Center’s 2024-25 theater season has five titles on it. But to many musical theater fans, it begins and ends with “Waitress,” a beloved story of female camaraderie – and pie. The Arvada Center will become the first local company to stage its own version of the popular musical about a pregnant, unhappily married waitress…
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Arvada Center’s ‘The Great Comet’ a celebration of home-grown high school talent
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Unusual Tolstoy musical reunites Bobby G Awards nominees Bella Hathorne and Elleon Dobias
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Meet the new gatekeeper: Kenny Moten | John Moore
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Kenny Moten is not “The Change.” More like “The Change-Maker.” Moten was the most in-demand director in Colorado theater in 2023, and he not only made the most of it – he brought an awful lot of people along for the ride. Everywhere he went, the…
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Banner year for these local actors | John Moore
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Actor Lavour Addison toyed with us in 2023 like a heavyweight prize fighter who floats like a butterfly and delivers knockout punches at his pleasure. He ended 2022 with an award-winning performance of a boxing play called “The Royale,” playing a character based on the…