Tag: Disability Theater
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Phamaly flips the script with a ‘Pericles’ for the neurodivergent
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 18 Remarkable traveling production not only welcomed audience members on the spectrum, it put them in the show Over the past 25 years, I have seen about 4,000 live theater productions in my capacity as a Colorado arts journalist. And OK, I admit it: I am so, so…
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Ed Reinhardt’s magical 27-year run on the stage ends
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 8 University of Colorado football star found a new home and purpose with Magic Moments after devastating brain injury Every time Ed Reinhardt walks into a room, he will look you straight in the eye and introduce himself. That is, if you also happen to be nearly 7…
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Phamaly, ‘Spring Awakening’ and boundaries of disability and stage intimacy
It takes some real soul-searching and courage for any theater company to stage “Spring Awakening.” The raucous, rocking, revolutionary 2006 Broadway musical is an adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s tragic 1891 banned novel about hormonally charged German teens discovering the often frightening urges of adolescence that no adults in their strict religious community will simply explain…