Photos: My night at the Arvada Center’s Dividing the Estate’

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Ghandia Johnson (Mildred) shows off costumer Clare Henkel’s sketch for her character.

 

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Mark Rubald (Lewis) takes to the stage for some warmup exercises in preparation for playing the alcoholic brother Lewis.

 

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The Arvada Center leaves random prizes for selected subscribers to claim once they take their seats.

 

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Mark Rubald (Lewis) and Kristen Adele (Cathleen) warm up on the stage.

 

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Understudies are to be seen and not … wait a minute. Everyone wants to see and hear Billie McBride, who understudies as matriarch Stella, and other roles.

 

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Michael McNeill (Bob) and Russell Costen (Doug) share a backstage dressing room.

 

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Leigh Nichols Miller (“Son”) is one of many cast members with Denver Center connections. Miller graduated from the National Theatre Conservatory.

 

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Rachel Fowler, with stitcher Jessie Page, goes all meta on me.

 

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 From left: Ghandia Johnson, director A. Lee Massaro and Sharon K. White.

 

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By John Moore

Award-winning arts journalist John Moore was named one of the 12 most influential theater critics in the United States by American Theatre Magazine during has 12 years at The Denver Post. Hen then created a groundbreaking new media outlet covering Colorado arts an culture as an in-house, multimedia journalist for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He also founded The Denver Actors Fund, a nonprofit that has raised more than $600,000 for theatre artists in medical need. He is now a journalist for hire as the founder of Moore Media Colorado. You can find samples of his work at MooreJohn.Com. Contact him at culturewestjohn@gmail.com