The opening night curtain call for the “9 to 5” cast on Feb. 22, 2013. By John Moore Feb. 26, 2013 Opening No. 32: The Littleton Town Hall Arts Center cast and crew had to work some overtime to pull off its regional premiere of “9 to 5,” the stage adaptation of the 1980… Continue reading Photos: My night at Town Hall Arts Center’s “9 to 5”
Category: Opening Nights
Photos: My night at the Aurora Fox’s ‘Consider the Oyster’
A view of the opening-night party from behind the “Consider the Oyster” set, shot through the cut-out window of a Detroit skyscraper. Very cool set design by Shaun Albrechtson. By John Moore Feb. 19, 2013 Opening No. 30: “Consider the Oyster” is a gender-bending comic fantasy developed by Jeff Daniels’ Purple Rose Theatre Company in… Continue reading Photos: My night at the Aurora Fox’s ‘Consider the Oyster’
Photos: My night at LIDA Project’s ‘R.U.R./lol’
By John Moore Feb. 19, 2013 Opening No. 29: Denver’s oldest and really only true experimental theater company is the LIDA Project. Its newest original work, “R.O.R./lol,” picks up where Czech playwright Karel Capek’s 1920 science-fiction play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” ends. That play is actually where the word “robot” was introduced into the lexicon. LIDA’s… Continue reading Photos: My night at LIDA Project’s ‘R.U.R./lol’
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
Photos: My night at Heritage Square’s ‘One Enchanted Evening’
Heritage Square Music Hall co-owner T.J. Mullin told the opening-night audience of “One Enchanted Evening” that the company’s 25th season will be its last in Golden. By John Moore Feb. 16, 2013 Opening No. 28: The Heritage Square Music Hall opened its 25th and, sadly, final season on Valentine’s Day. Co-owners Connie Helsley and… Continue reading Photos: My night at Heritage Square’s ‘One Enchanted Evening’
Photos: My night at Germinal’s ‘Spoon River Anthology’
Actor Jim Miller made spoons adorned with individual faces as opening-night gifts for every cast and crewmember working on the Germinal Stage-Denver’s “Spoon River Anthology.” By John Moore Feb. 15, 2013 Opening No. 27, Feb. 10: Germinal Stage-Denver’s final season in its longtime northwest Denver home continues with its third staging of “Spoon River… Continue reading Photos: My night at Germinal’s ‘Spoon River Anthology’
Photos: My night at Performance Now’s ‘Once Upon a Mattress’
Laura Kimberlin brings beauty down to her fingertips to the orchestra pit at the Lakewood Cultural Center. She plays woodwinds as part of a seven-piece live orchestra for “Once Upon a Mattress.” By John Moore Feb. 11, 2013 “Once Upon a Mattress” is the classic musical retelling of “The Princess and the Pea,” in… Continue reading Photos: My night at Performance Now’s ‘Once Upon a Mattress’
Photos: My night at Dangerous Theatre’s ‘Dark Wood’
By John Moore Feb. 11, 2013 The sign as you enter the Dangerous Theatre, above, means it: “Seriously! Lots of nudity. Not a quick peek. Full frontal nudity for the ENTIRE SHOW.” And it’s not just for titillation. Peter McGarry’s “Dark Wood” is a legitimate, serio-comic play that finds three apes together in a… Continue reading Photos: My night at Dangerous Theatre’s ‘Dark Wood’
Photos: My night with ‘The Seafarer’ at the Aurora Fox
Booze: Beer, whiskey, poteen, you name it — is everywhere to be found on the set of “The Seafarer.” By John Moore Feb. 12, 2013 Here are bonus images from my brief visit backstage at Ashton Entertainment’s “The Seafarer” on Feb. 8 at the Aurora Fox. It was a long road bringing Conor McPherson’s… Continue reading Photos: My night with ‘The Seafarer’ at the Aurora Fox
Photos: My night at Backstage’s ‘Out of Order’ in Breckenridge
By John Moore Feb. 11, 2013 Here are bonus images from my night visiting the cast of the Backstage’s Theatre’s “Out of Order” after their first performance in front of an audience on Feb. 7. It’s a prototypical Ray Cooney farce harpooning a government official whose plans for an extramarital dalliance in a London hotel… Continue reading Photos: My night at Backstage’s ‘Out of Order’ in Breckenridge
Photos: My night at “Red” and “Prelude to a Kiss” in Colorado Springs
By John Moore Feb. 6, 2013 Here are bonus images from my night visiting the casts of Colorado Springs TheatreWorks’ “Red” and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s “Prelude to a Kiss.” John Logan’s celebrated “Red” is a charged dialogue between the manic – and egomaniacal – abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, and his young… Continue reading Photos: My night at “Red” and “Prelude to a Kiss” in Colorado Springs
Photos: My night at Boulder Ensemble’s ‘Ghost-Writer’
By John Moore Feb. 6, 2013 Here are bonus images from my night visiting the cast before the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s performance of “Ghost-Writer” on Feb. 2 at the Dairy Center for the Arts. In the play, a mystery set in 1919, Jim Hunt plays deceased novelist Franklin Woolsey, who may (or may… Continue reading Photos: My night at Boulder Ensemble’s ‘Ghost-Writer’
Bonus photos: My day with Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox and ‘Jekyll & Hyde’
By John Moore Feb. 2, 2013 Here are bonus images from my night visiting the cast of the Broadway-bound musical “Jekyll & Hyde,” featuring Constantine Maroulis (last seen here in “Rock of Ages”) and R&B star Deborah Cox, backstage at Denver’s Buell Theatre. This re-imagined production, which opens on Broadway on April 18, fits… Continue reading Bonus photos: My day with Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox and ‘Jekyll & Hyde’
Bonus photos: My night at ‘Noises Off’ in Lone Tree
The opening night of “Noises Off” at the Lone Tree Arts Center had a well-known guest, and not just local actor Carla Kaiser Kotrc, left. Joining director Nick Sugar (center) was film and TV star John Carroll Lynch, a Denver native and Regis High grad who performed in plays and musicals with Sugar (and me)… Continue reading Bonus photos: My night at ‘Noises Off’ in Lone Tree
Bonus photos: My night at Buntport Theater’s ‘Wake’
By John Moore Jan. 31, 2013 Here are some bonus images from my night visiting the cast of Buntport Theater’s ambitious original play, “Wake.” It’s a Beckett-like reimagining of “The Tempest,” in which the storm and subsequent shipwreck that drive Shakespeare’s love story never come. Featuring Erik Edborg, Erin Rollman, Brian Colonna and Adam… Continue reading Bonus photos: My night at Buntport Theater’s ‘Wake’
Bonus photos: My night at Longmont Theatre Company’s ‘Over the Tavern’
From left: Beau Wilcox, Marian Bennett and Peter Cabrera after the opening curtain call. By John Moore Jan. 30, 2013 Here are some bonus images from my night visiting the cast of the Longmont Theatre Company’s “Over the Tavern,” a bittersweet family story about growing up poor and Catholic in 1959 Buffalo. Featuring Peter Cabrera,… Continue reading Bonus photos: My night at Longmont Theatre Company’s ‘Over the Tavern’
Bonus photos: My night at the Denver Center’s “Grace, Or the Art of Climbing”
By John Moore Jan. 26, 2013 Here are some bonus images from my night visiting the cast of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s world-premiere staging of “Grace, or the Art of Climbing” on Jan. 24. In the story by Lauren Feldman, rock climbing serves as both metaphor and call-to-action for a reluctant young athlete… Continue reading Bonus photos: My night at the Denver Center’s “Grace, Or the Art of Climbing”