Tag: Arvada Center
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For Kelly Van Oosbree’s women: No pain, no gain | John Moore
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s hard to imagine any local stage director taking on a slate of shows that are as hard on women as the ones Kelly Van Oosbree tackled in 2023. In particular, three warhorse Broadway musicals that once seemed safe, but, through a more enlightened contemporary…
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This is the sound of a superhero | John Moore
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Max Silverman was late meeting up with his parents at their hotel in New York City a few weeks ago, but he had a pretty good excuse. He was saving someone’s life. “Max was on a subway platform and saw that a middle-aged man was…
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Meet two scenic designers who ‘set’ the bar | John Moore
Not all of our best storytellers tell their tales with words and voices. Some do it with sound, with light and, in the cases of Kevin Nelson and Tina Anderson, with the physical worlds they build for actors to play in. Anderson is believed to be the most prolific Colorado theater scenic designer of the…
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Peak performances in 2023 plays | John Moore
When Bob Moore said his final goodbye to his wife of 49 years, she made him honor a simple promise: To have fun. The veteran Colorado actor followed Wendy Moore’s marching orders by marching straight into a play whose own marching orders are, yes, to have fun. Moore played Grandpa Vanderhof, a tax-evading eccentric whose…
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Peak musical performances of 2023 | John Moore
Now, for the fun part. The Denver Gazette’s annual True West Awards recall 30 good stories of the theater year without categories or nominations. But attention must be paid to a few of the many standout individual performances of the year. And the greatest of 2023 (or pretty much any other year) was when Maiesha…
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Damn (Yankees)! Check out these fresh faces of 2023 | John Moore
Ellie Plenk is a preternaturally talented sixth-grader who is currently starring in a fully sold-out run of “Matilda the Musical” at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center – and it’s only the second theater production of her life. But she’s not some 11-year-old rookie, OK? Her first role was starring in “Matilda Jr.” at the…
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Singing the praises of the unsung heroes | John Moore
Sylvia Gregory has a pretty good life. As a casting director, she gets to spend much of it employing and celebrating local artists in television, film and live theater. Matthew Kepler has a pretty good life. As the Town Hall Arts Center’s director of programming, he has the opportunity to expand audiences’ horizons beyond the…
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25 years later, there is still work to be done | John Moore
October marked the 25th anniversary of a crime that hit close to home in Colorado and shook the world at large. Attention to that anniversary was paid throughout the month in Arvada, in Laramie, around the globe and in this newspaper. And I can’t recall any recent story topic that has drawn as much vitriolic…
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Laramie confronts and comforts its past on 25th anniversary of Shepard murder
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New York’s Tectonic Theater Project returns to Wyoming to share somber and celebratory reading of ‘The Laramie Project’
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Colorado’s can’t-miss kid is making her Denver Center debut | John Moore
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‘Wherever Sophia (Dotson) wants to go, Sophia is going to get there’