More than two years after an abrupt COVID shut down, Shakespeare in the Wild debuts in Centennial
The idea, born on a series of trail runs, takes ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ out of doors and into nature.
After a pandemic hiatus, a chamber music festival is coming back to Summit County 25 years after it started
The Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival started as “Music from the Summit.”
Frank Lloyd Wright is best known for his architecture, but a new show highlights his relationship with decorative art
The gift of a lamp inspired a new exhibition of Wright’s work. But it didn’t start out as a lamp.
Olivia Chadha finished the award-winning ‘Rise of the Red Hand’ in 2018, but the lessons she sees in it still apply today
A Colorado Book Report: The Colorado Book Award-winning young adult novel is set in the near future and deals with climate change in South Asia rebels fight to take down an oppressive government that sacrifices its poorest inhabitants to build its utopia.
A Coloradan’s new play hopes to unite people around universal topics — using police killings in Puerto Rico as the backdrop
“I wanna see more of these kind of shows, touching on the personal and the universal to, to bring people together as opposed to merely opening up wounds and leaving people divided.”
‘People wanna know where their clothes are made’: Aurora’s Factory Fashion is bringing locally sourced styles home
A new movement is taking hold among artisans in the state, and one spot in Aurora is at the center. Tucked into Aurora’s Stanley Marketplace, Factory Fashion is, in part, a fashion design studio and part sewing school for youth through adults.
In Fort Collins, a program keeps the music alive by placing pianos around and asking people to play (and paint) them
The popular Pianos About Town project is a year-round program that pairs pianos with artists who paint them outside during the summer. This “art and action” gives the community a chance to meet the artists.
Japanese Americans in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood have a long history. A new exhibit remembers them
An interactive story-sharing, web-based app takes visitors back in time for a unique neighborhood tour of what that time was like.
New exhibit celebrates early work of Native artist Danielle SeeWalker at Littleton Museum — a city on ancestral lands
SeeWalker’s new show, titled “škhé: it is said,” uses the 1,800 square feet of the Changing Gallery at the Littleton Museum to great effect. For her, giving respect to the hundreds of different Native tribes, and their differences, is key.
Boulder’s dinner theater is getting ready to shut its doors for the last time after pandemic hardships and its building getting sold
Formerly called Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, BDT Stage has a proud 44-year history of successful shows and crowd-pleasing dinners. Now, the group’s home has reportedly been sold for $5.5 million.
A new staging of ‘An Octoroon’ is challenging how race is portrayed in American theater
“This play in production will cause the audience to either be shocked. They will laugh, they will cry. They will say, ‘What the did I just see?’”
Meet Morrie the Monster — the bright yellow mascot of Puppet Palooza, and this year, for Green Mountain Falls’ arts festival
Katy Williams says the combination of performance and art in puppetry – and the chance to share that with kids – drew her to create the show.
As the pandemic took hold, the Longmont Theatre Company decided they weren’t going to wallow — they thrived
As COVID-19 struck — and arts organizations all over the U.S. shut down — the Longmont Theatre Company had a decision to make: Sit back and wait it out … or work hard to make things better.
After resigning, former Colorado Springs arts leader reflects on career, new production, and what it means to be a Black creator
In March 2020, Idris Goodwin was named the executive director of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. But just two years later, Goodwin — a playwright and arts leader — resigned from his post.
UNC graduate gets ready to make his Tony Awards debut as cast member of Broadway’s most nominated show — A Strange Loop
When the Veasey family moved to Colorado Springs in 1995, Jason had just entered high school. His family still lives in the area.
He grew up watching musicals at Denver’s Buell Theatre. Now, he’s back home performing in one of the most well-known shows — Moulin Rouge
For Andrés Quintero, a touring production of Moulin Rouge is a chance to show Colorado the skills he learned while a high school student studying theater at Aurora’s Rangeview High School.
