Tag: Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company
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This winter, treat yourself to theater with music, mirth or meat on its bones
The top 2026 trend in local theater: Companies are moving their plays from city to city staged for your enjoyment and convenience There is an embarrassment of riches on Colorado theater stages this winter. And, to a growing degree, you don’t even have to go all the way to the theater to see it all.…
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Power Plays: 2025 was a big year for meaningful storytelling
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 23 Three companies in particular were knocking out one great show after the other: Curious, BETC and Firehouse It was an extraordinary year for meaningful storytelling on Colorado theater stages. Three times I walked out of the tiny John Hand Theatre on the Colorado Free University campus saying…
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Matt Zambrano: Last by letter, first by feats
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 1 Here’s every brilliant thing busy and beloved actor and director did this year Matt Zambrano is such a nice guy, he will give you the shirt off his back – and the words off his page. True story. I was unsteadily attempting to write my first real play…
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How ‘Raganomics’ is shaking up the arts in Boulder and Golden | John Moore
Anyone who runs any arts organization anywhere is on the constant lookout for that elusive, big-time benefactor who can solve all your financial challenges with one fat check. Almost never is that fat-checker one and the same person – both the administrator and the giver. And in no universe would that benefactor also share the wealth…
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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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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…
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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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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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Leslie Crispelle: He put his money where the magic was
Every time Les Crispelle and Glenn Tiedt celebrated Thanksgiving, they would go around the table saying what they were thankful for. And the couple never once varied in their 25 Thanksgivings together. Every year, Tiedt said he was grateful for Crispelle. And every year, Crispelle said he was thankful for Alcoholics Anonymous and his eventual…