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Twelve new stage openings to warm your January chill | John Moore
Much of the local performing arts community takes a collective breath around the holidays, which means they tend to come back each January like a synchronized Arctic blast of drama. And one look at the upcoming calendar makes one thing perfectly plain: They are coming back leaner – yet still loaded for (dramatic) bear. We are…
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Meet the new gatekeeper: Kenny Moten | John Moore
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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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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Swifties are losing their minds over Coloradan Mandy Moore’s choreography
Of all the many talents that have propelled Taylor Swift to her widely recognized status as perhaps the biggest female pop star on the planet, her dancing skills have not been among them. Then came the Eras Tour. And ever since what is now the largest concert tour in music history launched on March 17,…
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Historic nonbinary award nominee grapples with gendered categories
eden, a single-named and intentionally lower-cased Denver actor, recently became the first openly nonbinary performer to be nominated for the Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Awards, which celebrate the year in live theater statewide. eden is nominated as an outstanding supporting actress for playing a confidante to the first female Negro Leagues baseball player in the…
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How to fairly eliminate gendered awards categories? | Arts news
Most forward-thinking people have come to see the inherent problem with “gendered awards” like Best Actor and Best Actress. It’s just how everyone has always done it, from the Oscars to the Emmys to the Tonys to local awards programs like the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Awards and the Denver Center’s Bobby G Awards, which…
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Westword puts long-running music festival on hold for 2023 | Arts news
I remember happening upon a band called Slim Cessna’s Auto Club at the very first Westword Music Showcase in 1995 and thinking I had found my new church. One I have regularly attended since. (Both the band … and the festival.) Looking back on the lineup for that first-ever local music celebration in LoDo now…