Tag: Melissa Lucero Mccarl
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Denver playwright Edith Weiss: Short and sweet
The beloved local playwright, actor and director is having her moment at age 74 with an evening of ‘fierce’ short plays How good of a humanoid is Edith Weiss? “She feels bad killing Japanese beetles,” said Christy Montour-Larson, her friend and co-host of their award-winning gardening podcast “Upside Down Tulips.” That good. It’s true: Weiss…
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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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An ‘Ocean’ of new plays and musicals about to open in Colorado
Live theater in Colorado never has a down season. But every once in a while, a vortex of new shows opens all at the same time. Take this impressive array of titles – all but two opening within a 24-hour span next weekend: • Curious Theatre’s “Cost of Living”: Martyna Majok’s play made history last year as…
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Local playwrights delivered the write stuff in 2023 | John Moore
Jake Brasch put the Colorado in the 2023 Colorado New Play Summit in February. The feel-good story of the 2023 Summit was the Denver-born playwright coming home from New York to tell his own brutally honest addiction-recovery story that, in the end, felt pretty darned good. The Colorado New Play Summit is the DCPA Theatre…
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Denver playwright Jeffrey Neuman hits the trifecta | John Moore
When Denver’s Jeffrey Neuman began to lose his hearing, he found his voice as a playwright. Both journeys go back about 15 years. That’s when Neuman’s diminishing hearing started to become debilitating – not only for him, but for his husband, Mark Reidel. “Because it’s really hard being a spouse to somebody who cannot hear anything…