Tag: Kenny Moten
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Boulder theater company lands rights to newest Tony Award-winning best play
Arts news: BETC has its ‘Liberation’; Murray leaves Florida post; Sandoes keep Shakespeare tradition going in Boulder; People’s Building adds second space The Tony Awards crowned Bess Wohl’s Pulitzer-winning “Liberation” as best new play of the year on Sunday – and Denver audiences will get to see it sooner than they have perhaps ever seen a…
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‘Come From Away’ pilots: After the unthinkable, the unforgettable
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Beverley Bass and Kelsey Crismon: One navigated the plane on 9/11, the other now steers the story on the Arvada Center stage When you hear about the celebrated Broadway musical “Come From Away,” you might naturally assume it is the story of 9/11. Well, this is your captain speaking: “It is the story of 9/12,”…
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‘Assassins’ tops list of ’25 musicals that were ‘worthy of your love’
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 24 From a Sondheim musical about presidential killers in Golden to a new Disney classic in Arvada, Colorado musicals showed their range in 2025 When the Miners Alley Performing Arts Center decided to include the controversial Stephen Sondheim musical “Assassins” on its current season, it was more than…
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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 the new gatekeeper: Kenny Moten | John Moore
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Kenny Moten is not “The Change.” More like “The Change-Maker.” Moten was the most in-demand director in Colorado theater in 2023, and he not only made the most of it – he brought an awful lot of people along for the ride. Everywhere he went, the…
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Singing the praises of the unsung heroes | John Moore
Sylvia Gregory has a pretty good life. As a casting director, she gets to spend much of it employing and celebrating local artists in television, film and live theater. Matthew Kepler has a pretty good life. As the Town Hall Arts Center’s director of programming, he has the opportunity to expand audiences’ horizons beyond the…
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Lone Tree Arts Center dares to Dream (Girls)
Broadway-scale musical opening Thursday is center’s first locally staged theater production in four years