Tag: Colorado Shakespeare Festival
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Boulder theater company lands rights to newest Tony Award-winning best play
Arts news: BETC has its ‘Liberation’; Murray leaves Florida post; Sandoes keep Shakespeare tradition going in Boulder; People’s Building adds second space The Tony Awards crowned Bess Wohl’s Pulitzer-winning “Liberation” as best new play of the year on Sunday – and Denver audiences will get to see it sooner than they have perhaps ever seen a…
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The Shakespearean double life of CU heroine Mary Rippon
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As festival returns to improved amphitheater, a fresh look at its stage’s namesake Shakespeare would have loved Mary Rippon. She was a headstrong woman who rode sidesaddle. On her horse, Fanny – and throughout her unconventional double life. • Like Rosalind, she survived exile and meticulously engineered the ending of her own story. • Like Portia, she…
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Xfinity pulls the plug on local ABC affiliate
Arts news: Denver Alamo set to strike; historic Bright Eyes concert; what’s next for City Park Jazz?; dog days at Colorado Shakespeare Festival Viewers who tuned in for Denver7 News around 6 p.m. Tuesday night were in for a rude surprise when the feed went dark, soon replaced by an ominous message that the entire…
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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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Husbands and wives keep the home fire burning on stage
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 11 Married couple Marco and Adriane Robinson were romantically paired three times in 2025, while Shakespeare duo’s love was in full Boulder bloom Is there anything more irresistible than for a romantic leading man to be paired with a romantic leading lady who happens to be his romantic…
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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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This is the sound of a superhero | John Moore
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…