Photos: My night at the Denver Center Theatre Company’s ‘Jackie & Me’

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. 25, 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 Theatre Company’s ‘Jackie & Me’

Photos: My night at The Catamounts’ ‘Failure: A Love Story’

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. 24, 2013 Opening No. 123: The Catamounts’ “Failure,” A Love Story”: This fanciful musical fable is about… Continue reading Photos: My night at The Catamounts’ ‘Failure: A Love Story’

Photos: My night at the Aurora Fox’s “Metamorphoses”

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 Sept. 3, 2013 Opening No. 106: Aurora Fox’s “Metamorphoses”: That… Continue reading Photos: My night at the Aurora Fox’s “Metamorphoses”

Video: Shout-outs to 2013 Henry Award nominees

By John Moore July 18, 2013 Members of the local theater community give their shout-outs to this year’s field of 2013 Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award nominees. One comes all the way from Poland. The ceremony is July 22 at the Arvada Center. Video by John Moore for www.CultureWest.Org. Running time: 7 minutes. Shouters and… Continue reading Video: Shout-outs to 2013 Henry Award nominees

Photos: My day at ‘Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse’

Stage manager Emily MacIntyre has no defense for Brian Landis Folkins’ whiskery charms before Sunday’s first public performance of the Denver Children’s Theatre’s “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse” at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center.   By John Moore March 13, 2013 Opening No. 41, “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse”: “Lilly” is back for a second staging… Continue reading Photos: My day at ‘Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse’

Photo series: My night at the Catamounts’ ‘Jon’

  By John Moore March 5, 2013 Opening No. 35: The Catamounts’ “Jon” is a Vonnegut-like, possibly futuristic (possibly not) allegory based on a New Yorker short story written by a one-time engineering student from the Colorado School of Mines named George Saunders. In it, trendy youth are raised from birth to serve as perpetual… Continue reading Photo series: My night at the Catamounts’ ‘Jon’

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

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”