Tag: Dairy Arts Center
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CBCA salutes those who combine arts and business innovation
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Tech entrepreneur and investor Dan Caruso was presented the 2026 John Madden Jr. Leadership Award on Tuesday by the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) for his work in establishing meaningful local partnerships with the Roots Music Project and Sundance Film Festival. “The arts and culture is more important now than perhaps ever,” said…
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Nina Miller: She didn’t just break a leg – she broke even
It’s a big deal when a local playwright both self-produces and earns back her costs on an unknown new play. How did she do it? Producing live theater has always required the moxie of a Vegas gambler. Only 20% of Broadway plays ever recoup their initial investments. The risk producers assume is just baked into…
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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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Colorado muralist Kendall Kippley succeeds by being true to herself
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Kendall Kippley’s world is large, vibrant and full of color. She lives in landscapes, cascades and concepts with lots and lots of water that she seeks to bring to life. More often than not, Kippley…
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The call for a ceasefire, from a mother’s point of view | John Moore
There’s one basic human truth that bipartisan supporters of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza want befuddled politicians in Denver and across the United States to know: “There are mothers on the other side of the fence as well.” They want them to make the fighting and the suffering stop. Now. Several U.S. cities have signed…
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National theater attendance has fallen a staggering 59 percent since 2018 | Arts news
Also: Former Rocky Mountain News theater critic joins cast of humanist play about Gaza and Israel
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Change at the top: Dazzle toots its own horn | Arts news
The club’s new co-owner and president is noted trombonist Chad Schneider
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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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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…