Tag: Denver School Of The Arts
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Justine Lupe comes home: Everybody wants this
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2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 19 A remarkably large class of Coloradans excelled in 2025 on screens large and small, and on stages near and far Justine Lupe started to get famous around 2018 because she was versatile, she was deeply relatable, she was quirky, and she was completely authentic – on camera and…
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Denver School of the Arts theater students: These kids are all right
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 12 One high school has generated about $58,000 since 2014 to help the Denver Actors Fund pay down Colorado theater artists’ medical bills Everyone had a potentially traumatic first day of school. The kind that can go either way: Either some older kid smells your fear, seizes on…
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Nora Garrett’s Hollywood screenwriting debut: Fierce
Denver School of the Arts grad’s combustible tale, starring Julia Roberts, has been called the most provocative film of 2025 There is a one-word playbook for how to effectively play the simmering, sexually frustrated Maggie the Cat in Tennessee Williams’ classic play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and it says this: “Fierce.” Funny, when…
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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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Local playwrights delivered the write stuff in 2023 | John Moore
Jake Brasch put the Colorado in the 2023 Colorado New Play Summit in February. The feel-good story of the 2023 Summit was the Denver-born playwright coming home from New York to tell his own brutally honest addiction-recovery story that, in the end, felt pretty darned good. The Colorado New Play Summit is the DCPA Theatre…
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Denver dancer: From brain surgery to Broadway | John Moore
A Denver actor is going from brain surgery to Broadway. Much of Denver – and pretty much the whole “Tiny Pretty Things” TV universe – has been on edge since Denver-born actor and classically trained ballet dancer Barton Cowperthwaite, 31, announced five weeks ago that doctors had discovered a tumor in his brain the size…
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Denver Public Schools will lose bus routes during the 2023-24 school year
Nearly 50 bus routes will be eliminated at the start of the 2023-24 academic year because of Denver Public Schools’ new start times. Four schools — Denison Montessori School, Denver Language School, Polaris Elementary School and STRIVE Prep – Sunnyside — will lose full transportation service. Denver School of the Arts will lose transportation…