Tag: Jessica Robblee
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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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Twelve new stage openings to warm your January chill | John Moore
Much of the local performing arts community takes a collective breath around the holidays, which means they tend to come back each January like a synchronized Arctic blast of drama. And one look at the upcoming calendar makes one thing perfectly plain: They are coming back leaner – yet still loaded for (dramatic) bear. We are…
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Meet two scenic designers who ‘set’ the bar | John Moore
Not all of our best storytellers tell their tales with words and voices. Some do it with sound, with light and, in the cases of Kevin Nelson and Tina Anderson, with the physical worlds they build for actors to play in. Anderson is believed to be the most prolific Colorado theater scenic designer of the…
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Where there is a Will, there is a woman | John Moore
It’s been a rough, oh, four centuries for Shakespeare’s women. But local stage directors flipped the script in 2023, making it a remarkable year – if not for the Bard’s characters, then certainly for the women performing them. It began with Local Theater Company culminating a three-year creative project that imagined Lady Macbeth in the…
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