Tag: Firehouse Theater Company
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Power Plays: 2025 was a big year for meaningful storytelling
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 23 Three companies in particular were knocking out one great show after the other: Curious, BETC and Firehouse It was an extraordinary year for meaningful storytelling on Colorado theater stages. Three times I walked out of the tiny John Hand Theatre on the Colorado Free University campus saying…
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For Firehouse, ‘Charity’ begins at Debra Gallegos | John Moore
There’s a reason veteran actor and director Debra Gallegos did not graduate from Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she was a student in the early 1970s. Gallegos, who is about to begin her 50th year as a bedrock member of Denver’s Su Teatro (“Your Theatre”), was taking theater classes at Metro in 1974 while…
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Helen Hand to brother’s murderer, Amber Torrez: ‘I need for you to be well’ | John Moore
Helen Hand has seen the face of Amber Torrez a hundred times. In courtrooms. In news coverage. On the maudlin “Murderperdia” web site she came across on the web. But when Hand came face-to-face with Torrez on March 24 in Denver’s Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse, she didn’t recognize the woman who stabbed her brother 30 times back…