Tag: Colorado Theater
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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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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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Banging the drum loudly for unsung heroes of the invisible stage arts
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 25 Victoria Holloway is ready to be her own princess, while musicians Sean Case and Leslie Kahler have struck a sweet chord through cancer Victoria Holloway’s friends talk as if the young actor and director should have a lifetime achievement award just about wrapped up by the time…
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Farewell, Farwell: True gentleman of the Fort Collins stage has died at 93
A Colorado Life: Actor Jonathan Farwell leaves a stage legacy of more than 60 years Jonathan Farwell is really gone. There’s no understudy for a man like him. Farwell, a true gentleman of the American theater, performed a remarkable array of award-winning roles over 60 rock-steady years as an actor – Salieri in “Amadeus,” Sir…
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Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson and the death of disco
Wait, so, if Michael Jackson were still alive, he’d be 65 years old? Beat it! With Wednesday’s Denver opening performance of “MJ,” a touring Broadway musical about the life and times of perhaps the most peculiar and impactful recording artist of the 20th century, I thought I’d revisit one of the most “thrilling” interviews of…
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Father and son actors are shooting for the stars | John Moore
Dwayne and Judy Carrington meaningfully named their only child Orion for the constellation that immortalizes the handsome hunter of Greek mythology. Literally, it means “shining star.” Which, at 42, is exactly what he is. Orion, an actor, model and former junior Olympian, is enjoying his breakout moment as an FBI agent in the searing new…
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Arvada Center to serve up slice of popular musical ‘Waitress’ next season
The Arvada Center’s 2024-25 theater season has five titles on it. But to many musical theater fans, it begins and ends with “Waitress,” a beloved story of female camaraderie – and pie. The Arvada Center will become the first local company to stage its own version of the popular musical about a pregnant, unhappily married waitress…
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An ‘Ocean’ of new plays and musicals about to open in Colorado
Live theater in Colorado never has a down season. But every once in a while, a vortex of new shows opens all at the same time. Take this impressive array of titles – all but two opening within a 24-hour span next weekend: • Curious Theatre’s “Cost of Living”: Martyna Majok’s play made history last year as…
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Chorale legend Eichenberger to be honored with two weekend concerts | Arts news
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Richard B. Eichenberger, co-founder of the Colorado Choir in 1978 and founder of the Columbine Chorale in 1987, will be remembered this weekend with two meaningfully prepared memorial concerts. Eichenberger, a legendary teacher at four Denver public high schools from 1951-81, died Sept. 25 at the age of 99 years and 59 days. He was…
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Sprinkler system drenches first two ‘Hairspray’ performances in Denver
It’s not often you can say that an indoor theater performance has been rained out. But what has happened to the national touring production of “Hairspray” in Denver this week is the baseball equivalent of a double-header washout. The first two performances of the popular Broadway musical’s week-long visit to Denver on Tuesday and Wednesday…