Tag: True West Awards
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Brandt and Brownie: Creede’s 50-year gold standards | John Moore
Youth, says Creede Repertory Theatre lifer John Gary Brown, “seemed like a permanent condition in the endless summer of 1974.” He was brand new to the magical seductions of the La Garita Mountains 250 miles southwest of Denver. His perpetual sunshine and wife-to-be, Christy Brandt, was playing a 14-year-old in “The Philadelphia Story.” They were…
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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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25 years later, there is still work to be done | John Moore
October marked the 25th anniversary of a crime that hit close to home in Colorado and shook the world at large. Attention to that anniversary was paid throughout the month in Arvada, in Laramie, around the globe and in this newspaper. And I can’t recall any recent story topic that has drawn as much vitriolic…
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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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Wonderbound is cooking with Gasoline (Lollipops) | John Moore
I tiptoed into the world of modern dance in 2023 only to discover that I was actually walking home. The last two decades of my journalism career can be distilled to two points: I started The Underground Music Showcase (The UMS) in 2001 as a way to call attention to underappreciated homegrown bands like (eventually)…
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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…