Tag: Vintage Theatre
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Pulitzer-winning play a call for ‘Empathy in America’ at Vintage Theatre
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Vintage Theatre will revisit the play that put it on the map when it stages ‘Angels in America’ in two parts with two cast members returning Back in 2010, local theater director Bernie Cardell called his landmark staging of the two-part opus “Angels in America” “a renewed call to action.” Revisiting Tony Kushner’s masterpiece now,…
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Arrive in ’25: Take a look at the year’s emerging class
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2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 28 Here is a representative look at some of the many breakout performances on Colorado stages this year Sure, it’s cheating to suggest that a man who has been directing and performing with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for the past seven seasons had a “breakout” anything in the…
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With ‘Follies,’ Vintage makes no concession to age
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 22 Directors assemble a huge cast of seasoned and starting performers for historic, first local run at Sondheim’s ‘Follies’ The Vintage Theatre in Aurora pulled something off in June the likes of which we hadn’t quite seen on any local theater stage in more than 20 years. Back…
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Storied Elitch Theatre stage no longer a ghost town
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 14 Long-neglected stage filled its dance card with 75 days of theater, films concerts and more in 2025. That’s the most in more than 30 years. The state of Colorado was just 15 years old when the (now Historic) Elitch Theatre opened in northwest Denver in 1891. Which…
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An ‘Ocean’ of new plays and musicals about to open in Colorado
Live theater in Colorado never has a down season. But every once in a while, a vortex of new shows opens all at the same time. Take this impressive array of titles – all but two opening within a 24-hour span next weekend: • Curious Theatre’s “Cost of Living”: Martyna Majok’s play made history last year as…
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Diversity group recommends suspension of its own founder
Report: IDEA Stages founder Alicia Young engaged in harmful and hypocritical behavior
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The Annaleigh Ashford express keeps rolling along | Arts news
Annaleigh Ashford, Hollywood’s leading Colorado-connected actor of the moment, just had three new projects announced this past week alone – one on TV, one on film and one on stage. And that doesn’t even count her Emmy Award nomination earlier this month. Ashford, a graduate of Wheat Ridge High School, will next star in the true…
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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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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…