Tag: Candlelight Dinner Playhouse
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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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Local actor Eli Stewart, 34, was a father for all seasons
Local actor Eli Stewart was a remarkably quiet person, says one of his many area stage directors, Robert Michael Sanders – “until it was time to be funny.” Then, it was go-time. Stewart had the year of his life as a local actor in 2018, but then he stepped away from the spotlight for the best…
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In Boulder, it’s all over but the demolishing | John Moore
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Saturday’s performance of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ ended venerable dinner theater’s 47-year run
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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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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…