Tag: Arvada Center
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Pride in Place: Arvada holds its first Americana Pride Month concert
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Situated smack dab in the middle of Pride Month is a twangy concert reverberating the importance of counterculture throughout art. The Jefferson County Library and the Arvada Center will be holding its first “Pride in Place” concert on Thursday at the Arvada Center’s Mainstage Theater,…
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Actor Penny Dwyer taught her daughter to laugh at sadness
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When my friend Penny Dwyer started losing her hair to chemotherapy, she did not despair. She let her 17-year-old daughter cut off what was left of it and turn it into a silly Tik-Tok video. “I gave her the worst haircut of her life,” Becca…
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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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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
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Peak performances in 2023 plays | John Moore
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Peak musical performances of 2023 | John Moore
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…