‘BALLS!’ raises $5,250, inspires more to cap record-setting year for Denver Actors Fund

At the Denver Actors Fund, we’re feeling pretty close to a mile high. Earlier this year, we were told the Denver Actors Fund had been selected to be the sole charitable beneficiary at the 6th annual performances of “BALLS! A Holiday Spectacular” at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret. The numbers are in, and those performances directly raised… Continue reading ‘BALLS!’ raises $5,250, inspires more to cap record-setting year for Denver Actors Fund

Testimonial: GerRee Hinshaw on the Denver Actors Fund

A testimonial from GerRee Hinshaw, pictured above performing in the 2013 presentation of “BALLS!, A Holiday Spectacular.” This year’s “BALLS!” benefits the Denver Actors Fund: “One Sunday morning last April, my husband, Lee, called me from his parents’ Washington farm with the unimaginable news that his dad had just died in an accident. My son, Manny, and… Continue reading Testimonial: GerRee Hinshaw on the Denver Actors Fund

Photos: My night at ‘Balls V! A Holiday Spectacular’

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 Dec. 26, 2013 Welcome to my ongoing, 2013 labor-of-love photo series bringing you iconic snapshots from behind the… Continue reading Photos: My night at ‘Balls V! A Holiday Spectacular’

Photos: My night at the 2013 Henry Awards

By John Moore July 27, 2013 My photos from the 2013 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Awards. To see caption information for any photo above, or to see the gallery if watching on a mobile phone, click here. (The information is posted on the lower-left corner of each photo.) Or just click the “show info” option… Continue reading Photos: My night at the 2013 Henry Awards

‘Step Up to the Mic’: A special karaoke party fundraiser June 1

  By John Moore May 5, 2013 This has been a time of extraordinary personal challenge for members of the Colorado theater community. Many of our friends have found themselves in great and sudden need, and with numbing regularity: Shelly Bordas’ terminal cancer prognosis. Frank Oteri and Max Peterson facing expensive colon surgeries. Robert Michael… Continue reading ‘Step Up to the Mic’: A special karaoke party fundraiser June 1

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

Presenting: ‘The Autobiography of Scott the Parrot, a Psychological Triller,’ as penned by 26 odd birds

It all began many miles away, when something crawled to the surface of a dark Scottish Loch. Illustrations nd photos by Galen Shoe, Mitch Slevic and Jessica Robblee.

  By John Moore Jan. 2, 2013 For the past eight years, a giant Scottish parrot psychologist named Scott has joined in with a band of endearing young superheroes whose crime-fighting escapades have been lovingly chronicled in “Trunks,” Buntport Theater’s award-winning, bi-weekly live comic-book serial for all ages. Through more than 100 episodes, audiences have become as… Continue reading Presenting: ‘The Autobiography of Scott the Parrot, a Psychological Triller,’ as penned by 26 odd birds