Tag: Benchmark Theatre
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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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Local playwrights delivered the write stuff in 2023 | John Moore
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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How to fairly eliminate gendered awards categories? | Arts news
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Most forward-thinking people have come to see the inherent problem with “gendered awards” like Best Actor and Best Actress. It’s just how everyone has always done it, from the Oscars to the Emmys to the Tonys to local awards programs like the Colorado Theatre Guild’s…
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Denver playwright Jeffrey Neuman hits the trifecta | John Moore
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Denver’s Jeffrey Neuman began to lose his hearing, he found his voice as a playwright. Both journeys go back about 15 years. That’s when Neuman’s diminishing hearing started to become debilitating – not only for him, but for his husband, Mark Reidel. “Because it’s really…