Tag: Curious Theatre
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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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Denver Center will make history by staging Jake Brasch’s ‘The Reservoir’
Jake Brasch has a message for the military: “Colorado artists are on the verge of taking over the world!” (If only that were not hyperbole.) Brasch is a Denver-born playwright and floating on Cloud 99 this week with the announcement that the homegrown Denver Center Theatre Company will produce his play “The Reservoir” as part…
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What every kid should know about Martin Luther King Jr. | John Moore
Last week, I was hanging out with some of my favorite people: Kids, all 10 or 11. The only people in my life who are never mad at me. It was a birthday party. Speaking of birthdays, one casually asked the others what they would be doing with their day off from school Monday for…
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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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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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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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Curious was counting ‘The Minutes’ in 2023 | John Moore
In theater, as in life, you are the company you keep. Two of the biggest happenings of the 2023 Colorado theater year were centered around the concept of company. Curious Theatre Company, long-known as the local troupe with its professional pulse on the best of what is coming out of New York, entered its historically…
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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…