Tag: Deaths
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Germinal founder Ed Baierlein takes his final, provocative curtain call
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A COLORADO LIFE: 1943-2026 After taking a buyout from The Denver Post, I was still jonesing to cover the local theater community. So I asked Germinal Stage-Denver founder Ed Baierlein if I could be a fly on the wall to chronicle the 2013 making of “Offending the Audience,” which he had just announced would be…
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Judi Wolf: Denver’s leading lady of the arts makes her final entrance
Judi Wolf was a woman for all costumes. “What is theatre without costumes?” she was fond of saying. “It’s radio!” Wolf, a longtime philanthropist and trustee for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, is the namesake of the Wolf Theatre, the largest performing space in the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex. It was a gift…
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Colorado arts community mourns three
Ken Walker, Debra Faber and Janelle Orsborn remembered fondly To Dazzle Denver, bassist Ken Walker was family. For more than two decades — we’re talking 250 consecutive months of final Fridays — Walker and his sextet commanded the Dazzle stage. He performed at Dazzle last August for KUVO Radio’s 40th anniversary celebration, and again in…
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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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Actor Penny Dwyer taught her daughter to laugh at sadness
When my friend Penny Dwyer started losing her hair to chemotherapy, she did not despair. She let her 17-year-old daughter cut off what was left of it and turn it into a silly Tik-Tok video. “I gave her the worst haircut of her life,” Becca Dwyer said of a trendy look that left the back…
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Jim Havey, lovingly known as Colorado’s Ken Burns
Jim Havey, who came to be known as the Ken Burns of Colorado with his many films documenting the history of the Rocky Mountain West, died Jan. 19. He was 74. His films – notably “Colfax Avenue,” “Broomfield,” “Centennial Statehouse,” “The Great Divide” and “The Five States of Colorado” – have educated Coloradans for decades and have…
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Local actor Eli Stewart, 34, was a father for all seasons
Local actor Eli Stewart was a remarkably quiet person, says one of his many area stage directors, Robert Michael Sanders – “until it was time to be funny.” Then, it was go-time. Stewart had the year of his life as a local actor in 2018, but then he stepped away from the spotlight for the best…
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4 Denver deaths potentially due to drug overdoses, officials say
5th outdoor death that occurred on Tuesday but has yet to be investigated
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A year after Club Q: Events around Colorado Springs commemorate deadly attack
One year after an armed assailant unleashed a hail of bullets inside Club Q, killing five people and injuring 17 others, more than 200 people gathered outside the building to commemorate the lives lost and support the scores of people who still bear scars, physical and emotional, from the attack on what was considered an…