Tag: Henry Awards
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Hedwig vs. Mary Poppins: Historic gender change for 2025 Henry Awards
Actors will be considered in gender-neutral categories; Denver Center leads with 29 noms
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Colorado Theatre Guild rolls out historic gender change with 2025 Henry Awards nominations
The more things change, the more they do not stay the same for the Colorado Theatre Guild. For years, gender-equality advocates have been asking organizers of all major awards shows to reconsider how they categorize nominees at a time of change when most nonbinary performers do not define themselves as either male actors or female…
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2024 Henry Awards honor best theater from Denver to Carbondale
The 18th annual Henry Awards were a predictably unpredictable affair Monday night as the Colorado Theatre Guild defied its recent history by sending its trophies celebrating the best in Colorado theater in every direction. The CTG is historically known for crowning its winners in landslide fashion, but on Monday it delivered perhaps its most evenly…
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Boulder’s ‘The Royale’ delivers knockout punch with nine Henry Awards
Butterfly Effect, DCPA Theatre Company lead all others with nine awards each
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Historic nonbinary award nominee grapples with gendered categories
eden, a single-named and intentionally lower-cased Denver actor, recently became the first openly nonbinary performer to be nominated for the Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Awards, which celebrate the year in live theater statewide. eden is nominated as an outstanding supporting actress for playing a confidante to the first female Negro Leagues baseball player in the…
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Henry Awards give the Denver Center a home-field advantage
The Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Awards are going home to the Denver Center, where its homegrown theater company once again has hauled in a lion-sized share of the nominations. The DCPA Theatre Company received a robust 37 nominations Thursday, but that’s actually down from the record 47 it hauled in last year. The 17th annual…