Author: John Moore

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save EDITOR’S NOTE: This weekend, organizers say, brings the 25th and final Underground Music Showcase “in its current form.” To mark the occasion, Denver Gazette Senior Arts Journalist John Moore – who started The UMS in 2001 – is bringing back the poll that started it all.…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save EDITOR’S NOTE: This weekend, organizers say, brings the 25th and final Underground Music Showcase “in its current form.” To mark the occasion, Denver Gazette Senior Arts Journalist John Moore – who started The UMS in 2001 – is bringing back the poll that started it all.…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “To the world, you may be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.” – Snoopy.  To the thousands of both ordinary and extraordinary Coloradans who have been directed on a stage by a man known only as KQ – and there have been…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Megan Falley, wife of Colorado State Poet Laureate Andrea Gibson, issued a statement today revealing one of the final things Gibson said before dying Monday of ovarian cancer. Falley did not sugarcoat the fact that Gibson, who used them pronouns, “desperately wanted more time on…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Matt Zambrano, an actor, director and nationally recognized slam poet, thrives, he says, “when I have lots of little fires burning.” If that’s the case, 2025 is a five-alarm fire. (Please do not call the fire department.) Forget Zorro. The Mark of Zambrano is everywhere…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver performing-arts community is mourning the loss of two founding members of the late Jeffrey Nickelson’s Shadow Theatre Company: Vincent C. Robinson and Timothy C. Johnson. Both appeared in a wide range of local comedies, dramas and musicals. Robinson was also considered “our honored…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Kevin Ahl was drinking beer and eating pizza with four former classmates from a place that was seriously called “The Boettcher School for Crippled Children” when the idea hit him. The name of the unprecedented, unlikely, unheard-of theater company they were dreaming up in Teri…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It was, by literal definition, a once-in-a-century opportunity – and obligation: On Monday, my father, Ralph Moore, a hall-of-fame sports writer for The Denver Post, would be turning 100 years old from the great beyond. As Willy Loman says in “Death of a Salesman”: Attention must…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Many local media outlets have been quoting an NPR report that declared 2024 as “the year the music festival died” ever since the distressing announcement that the upcoming Underground Music Showcase will be the last “in its current form.” Then came more bummer word Wednesday…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Quick: Name the oldest continuously operating theater company in Colorado. Chances are you did not guess Greeley’s Little Theatre of the Rockies, which is chugging along in its 91st summer season through ever-changing times, economics and cultural tastes. Little Theatre is, on the one hand, the…