Tag: Creede Repertory Theatre
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Gus Van Sant brings ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ back home to Denver
DISPATCH FROM THE DENVER FILM FESTIVAL • DAY 7 Denver both rightfully and a bit speciously claims many film stars for having spent at least slivers of their childhoods here. We talk a lot about itinerant Coloradans Amy Adams, Don Cheadle, Keri Russell, Tim Allen, Hattie McDaniel and Billie Eilish’s mom, among others. Just the other…
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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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This is the sound of a superhero | John Moore
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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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Brandt and Brownie: Creede’s 50-year gold standards | John Moore
Youth, says Creede Repertory Theatre lifer John Gary Brown, “seemed like a permanent condition in the endless summer of 1974.” He was brand new to the magical seductions of the La Garita Mountains 250 miles southwest of Denver. His perpetual sunshine and wife-to-be, Christy Brandt, was playing a 14-year-old in “The Philadelphia Story.” They were…
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18 hours, 500 miles, 2 plays and a heart filled by magic of Creede | John Moore
CREEDE – On paper, it was a foolish plan. In execution, it was as magical as the destination itself: Start the day with an 8 a.m. drive to Creede, a tiny town 250 miles southwest of Denver in the remote San Juan Mountains. Arrive 10 minutes before the 1 p.m. start of a world-premiere play being…
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A poet’s dream in historic Creede | Main Street Colorado
The man known as the poet laureate of the Rockies found inspiration in a nook of southwest Colorado. Cy Warman was moved to write a poem that would be memorized by local school kids generations later. “It’s day all day in the daytime,” goes the famous line. “And there is no night in Creede.” For…