Denver Sonnets Project, No. 11: Crystal Verdon Eisele

By John Moore CultureWest.Org is endeavoring to make short films out of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, each featuring actors with Colorado connections. The artistic intent is primarily to further CultureWest’s mission to spotlight the local theatre community and their current or upcoming productions. It’s also an attempt to promote Shakespeare education in a fun… Continue reading Denver Sonnets Project, No. 11: Crystal Verdon Eisele

Denver Sonnets Project, No. 55: Cajardo Rameer Lindsey

By John Moore CultureWest.Org is endeavoring to make short films out of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, each featuring actors with Colorado connections. The artistic intent is primarily to further CultureWest’s mission to spotlight the local theatre community and their current or upcoming productions. It’s also an attempt to promote Shakespeare education in a fun… Continue reading Denver Sonnets Project, No. 55: Cajardo Rameer Lindsey

Denver Sonnets Project, No. 31: Sean Scrutchins and Devon James

By John Moore CultureWest.Org is endeavoring to make short films out of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, each featuring actors with Colorado connections. The artistic intent is primarily to further CultureWest’s mission to spotlight the local theatre community and their current or upcoming productions. It’s also an attempt to promote Shakespeare education in a fun… Continue reading Denver Sonnets Project, No. 31: Sean Scrutchins and Devon James

Denver Sonnets Project, No. 10, Augustus Truhn

By John Moore CultureWest.Org is endeavoring to make short films out of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, each featuring actors with Colorado connections. The artistic intent is primarily to further CultureWest’s mission to spotlight the local theatre community and their current or upcoming productions. It’s also an attempt to promote Shakespeare education in a fun… Continue reading Denver Sonnets Project, No. 10, Augustus Truhn

The Denver Sonnets Project, No. 17: Anne Sandoe

By John Moore CultureWest.Org is endeavoring to make short films out of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, each featuring actors with Colorado connections. The artistic intent is primarily to further CultureWest’s mission to spotlight the local theatre community and their current or upcoming productions. It’s also an attempt to promote Shakespeare education in a fun… Continue reading The Denver Sonnets Project, No. 17: Anne Sandoe

The Denver Sonnets Project, No. 144: Cailin Doran

By John Moore CultureWest.Org is endeavoring to make short films out of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, each featuring actors with Colorado connections. The artistic intent is primarily to further CultureWest’s mission to spotlight the local theatre community and their current or upcoming productions. It’s also an attempt to promote Shakespeare education in a fun… Continue reading The Denver Sonnets Project, No. 144: Cailin Doran

Denver Sonnets Project, No. 44: John Carroll Lynch

By John Moore CultureWest.Org is endeavoring to make short films out of all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, each featuring actors with Colorado connections. The artistic intent is primarily to further CultureWest’s mission to spotlight the local theatre community and their current or upcoming productions. It’s also an attempt to promote Shakespeare education in a fun… Continue reading Denver Sonnets Project, No. 44: John Carroll Lynch

Audience plants: The scourge of the American theater

Overeager hand-clappers make me want to kill. Not clap.

  By John Moore Jan. 8, 2013 It’s been a year since I’ve been on the record with a critical theater review, and I am (perhaps ill-advisedly) celebrating my anniversary of not having to go on the record saying something that might unilaterally anger the entire local  theater community … by going on the record… Continue reading Audience plants: The scourge of the American theater

Review: “Memphis” lifts you higher and higher

Felicia Boswell as Felicia and Bryan Fenkart as Huey in "Memphis." Photo by Paul Kolnik.

  By John Moore Oct. 10, 2012 “Memphis” is a sparkling Broadway musical that, to start, takes on race relations in almost the vein of a superficial fairy tale: A well-meaning white man wanders into the danger of a blues club on the dark side of town with all the blissful naivete of Larry Kroger… Continue reading Review: “Memphis” lifts you higher and higher

The average price of a live theater ticket in Colorado is …

Those "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" at the Arvada Center are charging the top ticket price in town. Photo by P. Switzer.

  By John Moore Sept. 28, 2012 Earlier today, I solicited comment from Facebook followers on my anecdotal observation that the fall theater season in Colorado seems to be off to a sure-no-fire start. Some of the most anticipated new works of the fall appear to be playing to houses that are far more empty… Continue reading The average price of a live theater ticket in Colorado is …

Photos: Opening night of Local’s “Elijah: An Adventure”

Benjamin Bonenfant and Anna Faye Hunter. Photo by John Moore

  By John Moore Sept. 22, 2012 Photos from the party following the opening-night performance of Local Theater Company’s “Elijah: An Adventure,” by Michael Mitnick. It’s one of our “11 most intriguing titles of the fall season.” More on the production here. I crashed (what else?) the party after seeing Abster Productions’ “August, Osage County,”… Continue reading Photos: Opening night of Local’s “Elijah: An Adventure”

Public invited to celebrate theater producer Bob Garner on Saturday

Robert Garner with Chuck Morris. "Two old show-biz pals," Garner wrote no Facebook. Photo via Joanne Davidson, The Denver Post

  By John Moore for CultureWest Friends of legendary Denver theater producer Robert Garner know the last thing the tireless bon vivant would probably want is a memorial party on his behalf to be held in a classy ballroom, but … I’m guessing, that will be just the start of a party to celebrate a… Continue reading Public invited to celebrate theater producer Bob Garner on Saturday

Fall 2012, No. 1: Curious Theatre’s “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity”

  By John Moore When: Sept. 1-Oct. 13 at  Curious Theatre in Denver (previews Aug. 30-31); Oct. 19-Nov. 11 at TheatreWorks in Colorado Springs Written by: Kristoffer Diaz The story: This rare intersection of sports and theater centers on a  frustrated Puerto Rican professional wrestler. It seems his lot in life is being the guy… Continue reading Fall 2012, No. 1: Curious Theatre’s “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity”

Fall 2012, No. 4: Midtown Arts Center’s “In the Heights”

Midtown Arts Center will become the first Colorado company to stage the 2008 Tony-winning best musical, "In the Heights." From left: DeVon Bucanhan, Cassidy Cousineau, Darius Anthony-Robinson, Tim Olivar, Mike Chasdan, Jessica Guerrero, Hector Flores Jr., Ryan Alvarado. Photo courtesy Nicole Yost.

CultureWest counts down the “11 most intriguing titles” of the upcoming fall theater season in Colorado.

Fall 2012, No. 8: Miners Alley Playhouse’s “The Three Penny Opera”

Multiple Henry Award-winning actor Megan Van De Hey makes her Miners Alley Playhouse debut in "The Three Penny Opera."

CultureWest counts down the “11 most intriguing titles” of the upcoming fall theater season in Colorado.

Iddo Netanyahu: Is there “A Happy End” for our troubled world?

The brother of Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Denver to stage the American premiere of his new play, “A Happy End.” It explores our historic human tendency to ignore warning signs — often to our own peril.