Tag: Su Teatro
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Conference on World Affairs is about to get folksy
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Arts news: High-level annual summit has a chill vibe; SeriesFest taps ‘Four Seasons,’ Rateliff teams with Symphony; Opera Colorado and more The 78th annual Conference on World Affairs returns to CU Boulder from April 13-16, and it’s being billed as a kickoff to the university’s upcoming 150th anniversary celebration. Since 1948, this free gathering has…
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Be just like them: Teachers choose friendship over friction at the theater
Two Denver teachers reflect on seeing the immigration play ‘Just Like Us’ at Su Teatro from very different life experiences The whole way home from seeing a local theater production on Thursday night, Cynthia Shelden was crying and praying. “It was that emotional for me,” she said. And when she got home, she took to Facebook.…
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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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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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Singing the praises of the unsung heroes | John Moore
Sylvia Gregory has a pretty good life. As a casting director, she gets to spend much of it employing and celebrating local artists in television, film and live theater. Matthew Kepler has a pretty good life. As the Town Hall Arts Center’s director of programming, he has the opportunity to expand audiences’ horizons beyond the…
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For Firehouse, ‘Charity’ begins at Debra Gallegos | John Moore
There’s a reason veteran actor and director Debra Gallegos did not graduate from Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she was a student in the early 1970s. Gallegos, who is about to begin her 50th year as a bedrock member of Denver’s Su Teatro (“Your Theatre”), was taking theater classes at Metro in 1974 while…
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Su Teatro at 50: Born from the birth of a campus and the death of a neighborhood
Tony Garcia can walk across the Auraria campus and point to five different houses he lived in by the time he was 15. Only, the houses aren’t there anymore. In their places are classrooms, parking lots and even a tiny open-air amphitheater where a rowhouse once stood. Perhaps it’s fate’s winking way of recognizing that…