Tag: Phamaly Theatre Company
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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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Curious Theatre Company in financial fight for its life | John Moore
Marquee local company must raise $250,000 by July to address critical needs
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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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Denver actor will be a big wheel in historic Broadway musical
Denver actor Jenna Bainbridge poses outside the Music Box Theatre in New York City, where on on April 18, 2024, she made her Broadway debut in the musical ‘Suffs.’ Courtesy Jenna Bainbridge It happened. And it is happening. What happened on Wednesday was the announcement that Jenna Bainbridge, once a longtime performer with Denver’s disability-affirmative…
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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…
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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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Playwright Judy GeBauer is off in the direction she’s going | Arts news
Town Hall Arts Center’s life-affirming ‘The Last Session’ is heading to Littleton stage for limited engagement
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Disability-affirmative Phamaly Theater Company comes home to Denver Center
A look back at five signature stage moments that only Phamaly, which next tackles Shakespeare, could ever deliver