Video: The Shelly Bordas Story, Part 3: A Community Responds

On Sunday, CultureWest named Shelly Bordas Colorado’s 2013 Theatre Person of the Year. Here is the third and latest installment in veteran journalist John Moore’s ongoing video documentary series chronicling Bordas’ story since the Denver actor and mother was diagnosed – for a second time – with end-stage breast cancer that has now spread to… Continue reading Video: The Shelly Bordas Story, Part 3: A Community Responds

Photos: My night at the Denver Center’s ‘A Christmas Carol’

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. 5, 2013 Welcome to my ongoing, 2013 labor-of-love photo series bringing you iconic snapshots from behind the… Continue reading Photos: My night at the Denver Center’s ‘A Christmas Carol’

Photos: Creede Rep leaves town with party to announce 2014 plans

By John Moore 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 Nov. 1, 2013 The Creede Repertory Theatre marked the closing of its annual fall staging… Continue reading Photos: Creede Rep leaves town with party to announce 2014 plans

Outtakes: My night at the Local Lab New Play Festival in Boulder

From left: Meridith Crosley Grundei, Lorenzo Gonzalez, Pun Bandhu, Rachel Fowler, George A. Keller and Belita Moreno read from Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Informed Consent.”   By John Moore March 19, 2013 Opening No. 44, Local Lab New Play Festival: The Local Lab is an annual weekend of three new American play readings at the picturesque… Continue reading Outtakes: My night at the Local Lab New Play Festival in Boulder

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

Fall at the Denver Center: No big breakthrough for local actors

Billie McBride, who will star in "The Giver," with Dwayne Carrington and Sam Gregory in "Driving Miss Daisy" at the Barth Hotel this summer. Photo by Michael Ensminger

  By John Moore Sept. 22, 2012 The Denver Center Theatre Company on Thursday opened its 33rd season, eighth under artistic director Kent Thompson, and first since its National Theatre Conservatory grad program closed down. The end of that highly regarded masters training program – and free talent pool for Thompson’s company – has resulted… Continue reading Fall at the Denver Center: No big breakthrough for local actors