Tag: True West Awards
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Meet the new gatekeeper: Kenny Moten | John Moore
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Kenny Moten is not “The Change.” More like “The Change-Maker.” Moten was the most in-demand director in Colorado theater in 2023, and he not only made the most of it – he brought an awful lot of people along for the ride. Everywhere he went, the…
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Final curtain call for BDT Stage | John Moore
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The irony hangs as heavily as the tears that are now falling freely as BDT Stage’s Jan. 13 closing date looms ever closer. “We couldn’t have asked for a more successful year,” said Artistic Director Seamus McDonough. 2023 will go down as one of the…
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For Kelly Van Oosbree’s women: No pain, no gain | John Moore
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s hard to imagine any local stage director taking on a slate of shows that are as hard on women as the ones Kelly Van Oosbree tackled in 2023. In particular, three warhorse Broadway musicals that once seemed safe, but, through a more enlightened contemporary…
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This is the sound of a superhero | John Moore
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Max Silverman was late meeting up with his parents at their hotel in New York City a few weeks ago, but he had a pretty good excuse. He was saving someone’s life. “Max was on a subway platform and saw that a middle-aged man was…
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Meet two scenic designers who ‘set’ the bar | John Moore
Not all of our best storytellers tell their tales with words and voices. Some do it with sound, with light and, in the cases of Kevin Nelson and Tina Anderson, with the physical worlds they build for actors to play in. Anderson is believed to be the most prolific Colorado theater scenic designer of the…
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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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Peak musical performances of 2023 | John Moore
Now, for the fun part. The Denver Gazette’s annual True West Awards recall 30 good stories of the theater year without categories or nominations. But attention must be paid to a few of the many standout individual performances of the year. And the greatest of 2023 (or pretty much any other year) was when Maiesha…
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Curious was counting ‘The Minutes’ in 2023 | John Moore
In theater, as in life, you are the company you keep. Two of the biggest happenings of the 2023 Colorado theater year were centered around the concept of company. Curious Theatre Company, long-known as the local troupe with its professional pulse on the best of what is coming out of New York, entered its historically…
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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…