As Dan and I were making our plans to move to Colorado, my friend and colleague Rick Pender gave me a heads-up about the Colorado New Play Summit, a two-week festival of commissioned work that takes place at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. On the first weekend, the Summit offers up staged readings […]
Read MoreReview: Appropriate (Colorado State University Theatre)
I’m starting to find my way through the Fort Collins arts scene, and I believe that CSU’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance will be a regular part of my theatre diet. Last week Dan and I were able to take in CSU’s production of “Appropriate” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. “Appropriate” is a story of a […]
Read MoreBreckenridge
Recently I was offered the chance to take in a show at Backstage Theatre in Breckenridge, Colorado. Breckenridge is about 2.5 hours from Fort Collins, so it would be no small schlep to get there — however, Dan has been itching to try his hand at skiing again. We made a quick weekend of it. […]
Read MoreReview: The Crucible (OpenStage Theatre)
Well, that escalated quickly. In his play The Crucible, Arthur Miller borrows the Salem witch trials as a platform to examine how little it takes to turn neighbor against neighbor. In love with the married John Proctor, young Abigail Williams spreads a bit of gossip about John’s wife Elizabeth. What follows is a hair-raising account of […]
Read MoreAurora Fox: Hi-Hat Hattie
The first thing you see when you approach the Aurora Fox Arts Center is their gorgeous, 61-foot marquee from the 1940s. Dan and I had a chance to visit this lovely theatre for a matinee performance of Larry Paar’s Hi-Hat Hattie. The ~250-seat venue has maintained many beautiful details of its history as a movie […]
Read MoreBas Bleu Theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Before we settled on Fort Collins, Dan and I visited a handful of other neighborhoods across Colorado to see if they might be a fit for us. Often the towns would offer stunning mountain views, breweries galore… and more than an hour’s drive to anything resembling theater. In “FoCo,” Dan and I can drive a […]
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