Author: John Moore
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Red Rocks Amphitheatre No 1 in the world, on pace for another record-smashing year
Red Rocks Amphitheatre was the most-attended concert venue in the world last year by far, according to Billboard Magazine. But 2021 was just a pebble compared to what’s going on under the stars in Morrison right now. Red Rocks hosted 233 ticketed events in 2021, including 177 concerts, 36 movies and 20 exercise activities, attracting…
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Colorado’s Jason Veasey taking Black Pride to Broadway’s biggest night | John Moore
Ask actor Jason Veasey how he’s doing right about now, and he’ll tell you: “The little train that could … is could-ing!” To strain the metaphor, Jason Veasey is a train that has left the station. Veasey, a graduate of Coronado High School in Colorado Springs and the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, is…
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Idris Goodwin resigns after 2-year tenure as director of Fine Arts Center
Idris Goodwin, who was named the first person of color to lead the century-old Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College just one month before the pandemic shutdown in February 2020, has resigned effective Friday. Goodwin, who has been associated with Colorado College for eight years including his time as a professor, is a successful playwright…
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‘The Holly’: The film some don’t want you to see | John Moore
A still from “The Holly” Courtesy Photo Denver native Julian Rubinstein has spent the past eight years making a documentary that many of the most powerful people in Denver do not want to see — and do not want you to see. Which means it is a film that all of us really should see.…
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Carlotta Walls LaNier on the enduring lessons from Little Rock
Carlotta Walls LaNier never thought she’d still be talking about high school 65 years later. But when you are one of the Little Rock Nine, your high school story is one that will be told forever. LaNier, at age 14, was the youngest of the nine Black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School…
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Kevin Smith named CEO of Denver Film, this time for real
Kevin Smith has been with Denver Film since 2015. Courtesy of Denver Film Kevin Smith, who was named interim CEO of Denver Film on March 17, is no longer interim. The board of the nonprofit that programs the Sie FilmCenter, the Denver Film Festival and the popular Film on the Rocks summer series at Red…
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Rita Moreno, 90 and Denver-bound: ‘It’s time’
Rita Moreno played the new role of Doc’s widow in the 2021 remake of ‘West Side Story.’ Courtesy of Sean Katz Whatever Rita Moreno talks about … she knows what she’s talking about. Sexual abuse. Relentless racism. The subjugation of women and Latinos in Hollywood. The perniciousness of suicide. She knows because she has experienced…
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Colorado theater family sifts for meaning in ashes of Marshall fire
SUPERIOR • Award-winning actor Kelly Watt rose to prominence in the local theater community in 2009 playing a young woman named Luisa in “The Fantasticks.” Whenever the character wears a mask, she sees a carefree world free of violence and ugliness. Whenever she takes it down, she sees the world as it really is: capricious,…
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Colorado Springs actor set to get back to work on Broadway
Colorado Springs native Jason Veasey will return to Broadway on Tuesday when “A Strange Loop,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Michael R. Jackson, opens in New York City. It’s the story of a young, Black, gay theater writer grappling with his toxic inner thoughts. Veasey, in fact, plays “Thought 5.” Veasey, who graduated from Coronado…
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Tom Robinson: A life dedicated to a fair playing field
Tom Robinson, says his son, was a humble man who never made much noise about himself. How quiet was he? “A writer getting paid by the word couldn’t make enough off interviewing Tom Robinson to buy a stack of smokes,” one Denver Post scribe groused in 1966, when Robinson was an accomplished, if laconic, 20-year-old,…