Tag: Nina Miller
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Nina Miller: She didn’t just break a leg – she broke even
It’s a big deal when a local playwright both self-produces and earns back her costs on an unknown new play. How did she do it? Producing live theater has always required the moxie of a Vegas gambler. Only 20% of Broadway plays ever recoup their initial investments. The risk producers assume is just baked into…
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Forty years later, Yates Theatre to reopen as funky cinema
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Arts news: The star of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s upcoming musical is from Colorado Springs; Arvada Center announces season Decades of efforts to reopen the historic Yates Theater in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood have taken a major step forward. On Monday, Denver’s Board of Adjustment approved a critical zoning adjustment that will allow the long-vacant…
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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…