Eden Lane joined CPR News as the arts and culture reporter in 2022.
Professional background:
For more than 15 years, Eden Lane worked as a freelance journalist in Denver, Colorado. As the host and producer of “In Focus with Eden Lane” on PBS12, RMPBS and PBS Digital, she was a true one-man band/multimedia journalist. During 11 seasons, this weekly series featured over 450 original episodes. Eden previously worked as a correspondent for RMPBS’ Arts District and as a producer for PBS12’s flagship live call-in community affairs show, “STUDIO 12.”
Awards/recognition:
Eden’s awards and accolades include the Westword Best of Denver and The Denver Post Ovation Award.
In 2011, writer Samuel D. Hunter sent his script to the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Summit as a blind submission. Now, its film adaptation is getting a showing at the Denver Film Festival.
Collaborating with local musicians and writers is a hallmark of the original work Wonderbound produces. The pandemic restrictions interrupted that component of their work, yet they never stopped dancing.
Founded in 1958, Inside the Orchestra began as a group that issued grants to music education programs. But in 1985, the organization shifted to creating and providing programming with a professional orchestra.
When Peter Oundjian was named the new principal conductor of the Colorado Symphony earlier this year, it was a progression of Oundjian's association with the Colorado Symphony that dates back over 20 years.
Peter Oundjian traded in his violin for the conductor’s podium when a neurological disorder caused muscle spasms in his hand. His career eventually led him to Colorado where Oundjian is the new principal conductor of the Colorado Symphony and the music director of the Colorado Music Festival.
Inspired by a Brazilian folktale, “The River Bride” tells the tale of two sisters who must choose between love, family, and a mysterious man pulled from the Amazon River three days before a wedding.
Writer E.J. Levy says the opening lines of “The Cape Doctor” — a book that recently won her the Colorado Book Award for historical fiction — came to her verbatim when she read two lines in a guidebook.
During the pandemic, the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse managed to stay open. Now, as the pandemic eases, it's looking to make a new community in Northern Colorado.
During the beginning of the pandemic, amid restrictions and shutdowns, the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company packed their stuff up and took their show on the road. They emerged different.
Terri Sternberg played under Leonard Bernstein, and for many years was first chair of the San Francisco Ballet. Later in life, Sternberg lost everything — including her home in Longmont — and was forced to sell her violin. Here's its story.
It’s billed as a theatrical test kitchen and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts has a new concoction: “Theater of the Mind.” The new experiment runs until Dec. 18 at York Street Yards in Clayton.
In each city the project visits, musicians and non-musicians, Black and white, address the importance of walking in the shoes of "the other" to build bridges across racial differences and reduce interracial violence.
For Brewability owner, Tiffany Fixter, the dream started as a special ed teacher, when she realized many people with disabilities couldn't find employment.
A longtime stalwart of Boulder's vinyl record scene is closing. This long holiday weekend is billed as the last hurrah for Albums on the Hill. Come Labor Day, it will close for good.
After winning eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Hadestown is making its first tour stop in Denver.