Photos: My night at the Denver Center Theatre Company’s ‘The Most Deserving’

To see caption information on any photo above, or to see the gallery on a mobile phone, click here. (It will be on the lower-left corner.) Or just click “show info” on any photo. By John Moore Oct. 23, 2013 Opening No. 122: Denver Center Theatre Company’s “The Most Deserving: The Denver Center’s new world… Continue reading Photos: My night at the Denver Center Theatre Company’s ‘The Most Deserving’

Breaking: Denver Center Theatre Company’s 2013-14 season an alchemy of the very old and very new

Scott Ferrara as Hamlet in the Denver Center Theatre Company's 2001-02 production.

By John Moore March 6, 2013 The Denver Center Theatre Company has just announced a 10-play season including four world premieres selected from the just-completed 2013 Colorado New Play Summit: *Karen Zacarías’ adaptation of Helen Thorpe’s book “Just Like Us” *Catherine Trieschmann’s comedy “The Most Deserving” *Matthew Lopez’s “The Legend of Georgia McBride” *Marcus Gardley’s… Continue reading Breaking: Denver Center Theatre Company’s 2013-14 season an alchemy of the very old and very new

2013 theater photo series: It’s Opening Night in Colorado

By John Moore Jan. 1, 2014 Welcome to my 2013 labor-of-love photo series bringing you iconic snapshots from behind the scenes on opening nights in Colorado theater. This series includes one representative shot from 151 of the performances we saw 2013. The intent was to allow the reader a window into a part of the… Continue reading 2013 theater photo series: It’s Opening Night in Colorado

Colorado New Play Summit taps Laura Eason, Helen Thorpe, Karen Zacarías and more

Laura Eason graduated from Cherry Creek High School.

By John Moore Nov. 19, 2012 The lineup for the Denver Center Theatre Company’s 8th Annual Colorado New Play Summit in February will include the newest work by rising playwriting star Laura Eason, a graduate of Cherry Creek High School, and a collaboration between former Colorado First Lady Helen Thorpe and Karen Zacarías. Eason’s adaptation… Continue reading Colorado New Play Summit taps Laura Eason, Helen Thorpe, Karen Zacarías and more

60-second review: “How the World Began”

Ryan Wuestawald and Emily Paton Davies in "How the World Began."

  By John Moore Nov. 10, 2012 I so wish I could tell you the classroom drama “How the World Began” is nothing more than an obvious piece of playwriting propaganda — an infuriating pop-culture provocation that unfairly mocks that part of poor, stupid small-town America that still clings to its entrenched belief in “intelligent… Continue reading 60-second review: “How the World Began”