Photos: Opening Night at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s ‘Macbeth’

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 on any photo. By John Moore July 4, 2013 Opening No. 89: Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s “Macbeth”:… Continue reading Photos: Opening Night at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s ‘Macbeth’

Photos: My night at Colorado Shakes’ ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

To see caption information on each photo above, click here. (It will be on the lower-left corner.) Or just click “show info” on any photo. By John Moore June 12, 2013 Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Even if you’ve seen Shakespeare’s most popular title before, you likely haven’t seen it with a Hermia… Continue reading Photos: My night at Colorado Shakes’ ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

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

Who’s who at the 2013 Colorado New Play Summit

Ryan Wuestewald recently starred in a Catherine Trieschmann drama in Boulder, but at the Summit he will appear in an adaptation of Helen Thorpe's "Just Like Us."

  By John Moore Feb. 5, 2013 The Denver Center Theatre Company’s eighth annual Colorado New Play Summit is taking shape for this weekend (Feb. 8-10). The company will present five staged readings, a few of which will surely end up being chosen for full productions during the company’s 2013-14 season. With dozens of cast and… Continue reading Who’s who at the 2013 Colorado New Play Summit

Arvada-bound Philip Sneed: The entrance/exit interview

Philip Sneed says he was not looking for a new job. "If it hadn’t worked out (at the Arvada Center," he said, "I would have kept up the good fight at CSF." Photo by John Moore for www.CultureWest.Org.

  By John Moore Jan. 27, 2013 Philip Sneed loves the symmetry of it all: His first two professional jobs were with the Arvada Center and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Fast-forward more than 30 years, and now his two most recent jobs are with the Arvada Center and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Although his professional… Continue reading Arvada-bound Philip Sneed: The entrance/exit interview

Breaking news: Phil Sneed leaving Colorado Shakes for Arvada Center

Karen Slack and Philip Sneed in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 2008 "Macbeth."

By John Moore Jan. 14, 2013 Colorado Shakespeare Festival producing artistic director Philip Sneed announced today he is leaving the nation’s second-oldest Shakespeare festival after seven years to succeed Gene Sobczak as executive director of the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities. That’s the money job. Rod Lansberry remains the Arvada Center’s artistic director. But… Continue reading Breaking news: Phil Sneed leaving Colorado Shakes for Arvada Center

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