Tag: Denver Center
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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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Sprinkler system drenches first two ‘Hairspray’ performances in Denver
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s not often you can say that an indoor theater performance has been rained out. But what has happened to the national touring production of “Hairspray” in Denver this week is the baseball equivalent of a double-header washout. The first two performances of the popular…
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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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DCPA Theater Company season: Sondheim, Latinx coming of age
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The DCPA Theatre Company will open its 2023-24 season on Sept. 1 with a locally produced staging of Stephen Sondheim’s classic “A Little Night Music,” Artistic Director Chris Coleman announced Thursday. While the Denver Center’s Broadway division hosts the big national touring musicals, the homegrown…
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Scrooge, you’re fired! A bah-humbug start for Denver’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Like Ebenezer Scrooge, Sam Gregory made a mistake. Unlike Scrooge, Gregory, who portrayed the miserly boss from “A Christmas Carol” for a local theater company, will not get a second chance. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts fired Gregory over the weekend under its new zero…
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Denver Film Festival announces lineup for 44th annual event
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After a year filled with mainly virtual activities, Denver Film Festival officials announced this year’s slate of screenings and other activities will be held during the 12-day festival next month. The curtain will rise for film enthusiasts as more than 200 films — including 140…
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‘Hamilton’ postponed at Denver Center
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The news isn’t good for those who hoped to finally see “Hamilton” this year. Due to COVID-19, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts has postponed Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical scheduled for Aug. 12…