Tag: Springs Ensemble Theatre
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Army combat veteran on theater as therapy for trauma
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 21 Retired Staff Sergeant, actor and Springs Ensemble Theatre president found out the long way that his father had his back all along As an actor, director and president of Springs Ensemble Theatre, retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matt Radcliffe has a ready rejoinder whenever he’s confronted with…
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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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Peak performances in 2023 plays | John Moore
When Bob Moore said his final goodbye to his wife of 49 years, she made him honor a simple promise: To have fun. The veteran Colorado actor followed Wendy Moore’s marching orders by marching straight into a play whose own marching orders are, yes, to have fun. Moore played Grandpa Vanderhof, a tax-evading eccentric whose…
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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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Lotus returns to stage for benefit concerts to honor percussionist Chuck Morris | Arts news
The bereaved Colorado-based instrumental jam band Lotus will return to the stage on April 21-22 as a way of both honoring and helping the devastated family of a fallen member. The bodies of percussionist Chuck Morris, 47, and his 20-year-old son, Charley, were found in Beaver Lake in Rogers, Ark., on April 9, nearly a…