Tag: Phamaly
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Mission possible: Phamaly alumni made national impact in ’25
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2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 3 From film to Broadway, Denver disability artists ‘are living proof that anything is possible’ When five students created Denver’s first disability theater company back in 1989, it was to create performance opportunities they were never going to get at a dumping ground first called – I kid you…
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How to fairly eliminate gendered awards categories? | Arts news
Most forward-thinking people have come to see the inherent problem with “gendered awards” like Best Actor and Best Actress. It’s just how everyone has always done it, from the Oscars to the Emmys to the Tonys to local awards programs like the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Awards and the Denver Center’s Bobby G Awards, which…
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Phamaly, ‘Spring Awakening’ and boundaries of disability and stage intimacy
It takes some real soul-searching and courage for any theater company to stage “Spring Awakening.” The raucous, rocking, revolutionary 2006 Broadway musical is an adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s tragic 1891 banned novel about hormonally charged German teens discovering the often frightening urges of adolescence that no adults in their strict religious community will simply explain…