Photos: My night at LIDA Project’s ‘Watershed’

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 9, 2013 Opening No. 92: LIDA Project’s “Watershed (Part… Continue reading Photos: My night at LIDA Project’s ‘Watershed’

Photos: My night at LIDA Project’s ‘The Hairy Ape’

Lorenzo Sariñana prepares backstage to perform  “The Hairy Ape” along with a skeletally inclined narrator and five mannequins — all speaking in a different language than he does.   By John Moore May 19, 2013 Welcome to my ongoing, 2013 labor-of-love photo series bringing you iconic snapshots from behind the scenes on opening nights in… Continue reading Photos: My night at LIDA Project’s ‘The Hairy Ape’

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’

Here are your 2012 CultureWest.Org “True West” Award nominations

The 2012 True West "Theater Person of the Year" nominees.

    By John Moore Dec. 16, 2012 One of the hardest things about leaving The Denver Post was leaving behind the Ovation Awards, which for 12 years was my annual salute to what we perceived to be the best in Colorado theater for any given year. Then I thought, “Why not?” I can only… Continue reading Here are your 2012 CultureWest.Org “True West” Award nominations

Former LIDA Project warehouse theater leveled

The former LIDA Project warehouse theater in the process of being taken down. Photo by Brian Freeland.

  By John Moore Nov. 30, 2012 Add the former LIDA Project warehouse theater to the growing list of former Denver theater spaces. Over the past three weeks, crews have meticulously dismantled the warehouse theater that housed Denver’s only experimental theater company from 2001-11. It was located next to the Mercury Cafe at 2180 Stout… Continue reading Former LIDA Project warehouse theater leveled