Tag: Denver School Of The Arts
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Conference on World Affairs is about to get folksy
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Arts news: High-level annual summit has a chill vibe; SeriesFest taps ‘Four Seasons,’ Rateliff teams with Symphony; Opera Colorado and more The 78th annual Conference on World Affairs returns to CU Boulder from April 13-16, and it’s being billed as a kickoff to the university’s upcoming 150th anniversary celebration. Since 1948, this free gathering has…
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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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Kunsmiller students walkout out of class over teacher cuts, again
For the second time in less than two weeks, Denver Public School students marched out of class with placards to protest teacher cuts. Last week, more than 100 students at the Denver School of the Arts, or DSA, walked out of class over a $482,000 budget shortfall next year prompted school leaders to cut social…
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Two Colorado high schools advance to international thespian festival
Now, all they have to do is raise $100,000 to get there this summer
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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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A father, a son, and a moment more powerful than any story | John Moore
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2023 TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 10