Tag: Miners Alley Playhouse
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This winter, treat yourself to theater with music, mirth or meat on its bones
The top 2026 trend in local theater: Companies are moving their plays from city to city staged for your enjoyment and convenience There is an embarrassment of riches on Colorado theater stages this winter. And, to a growing degree, you don’t even have to go all the way to the theater to see it all.…
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Banging the drum loudly for unsung heroes of the invisible stage arts
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 25 Victoria Holloway is ready to be her own princess, while musicians Sean Case and Leslie Kahler have struck a sweet chord through cancer Victoria Holloway’s friends talk as if the young actor and director should have a lifetime achievement award just about wrapped up by the time…
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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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Take a bow: Local playwright scores a double-daring feat
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 15 Luke Sorge wrote two new plays that premiered on different metro stages at the same time – a playwright’s quiniela Lovable Luke Sorge is a typical young father who gets up early to do all the necessary family business with his wife and impossibly adorable 3-year-old daughter…
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Father and son actors are shooting for the stars | John Moore
Dwayne and Judy Carrington meaningfully named their only child Orion for the constellation that immortalizes the handsome hunter of Greek mythology. Literally, it means “shining star.” Which, at 42, is exactly what he is. Orion, an actor, model and former junior Olympian, is enjoying his breakout moment as an FBI agent in the searing new…
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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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Banner year for these local actors | John Moore
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Actor Lavour Addison toyed with us in 2023 like a heavyweight prize fighter who floats like a butterfly and delivers knockout punches at his pleasure. He ended 2022 with an award-winning performance of a boxing play called “The Royale,” playing a character based on the…
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Peak musical performances of 2023 | John Moore
Now, for the fun part. The Denver Gazette’s annual True West Awards recall 30 good stories of the theater year without categories or nominations. But attention must be paid to a few of the many standout individual performances of the year. And the greatest of 2023 (or pretty much any other year) was when Maiesha…
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Curious was counting ‘The Minutes’ in 2023 | John Moore
In theater, as in life, you are the company you keep. Two of the biggest happenings of the 2023 Colorado theater year were centered around the concept of company. Curious Theatre Company, long-known as the local troupe with its professional pulse on the best of what is coming out of New York, entered its historically…
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Damn (Yankees)! Check out these fresh faces of 2023 | John Moore
Ellie Plenk is a preternaturally talented sixth-grader who is currently starring in a fully sold-out run of “Matilda the Musical” at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center – and it’s only the second theater production of her life. But she’s not some 11-year-old rookie, OK? Her first role was starring in “Matilda Jr.” at the…