Author: John Moore
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It’s about time: Black women directors make local history | John Moore
Jada Dixon and Betty Hart both are directing plays that open within days of each other, evidence of progress in local theater representation. John Moore, the denver gazette When the Arvada Center opened the play “Stick Fly” last night, it made Jada Suzanne Dixon the first Black female theater director in the center’s 46-year history.…
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For Colorado actors with alopecia, Oscars are a double gut-punch
Denver actor Rachel McCombs-Graham has been called G.I. Jane, too — and it hurt. But she’s tough. Living with alopecia for 25 years can be its own kind of boot camp. She developed her first bald spot when she was 6. It would be 15 more difficult years before taking full ownership of her disease,…
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Beyond ‘The Slap,’ a community divided by best picture Oscar winner ‘CODA’
The Oscars telecast everyone thought just might turn out to be a train wreck did indeed run right off the rails. On a night when a trio of three female comedians were expertly navigating one of the most challenging and uplifting and groundbreaking Academy Awards telecasts in history, along came the shocking, testosterone-fueled slap for…
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Oscars return with big boring problem | John Moore
The Oscars return Sunday night. The question is: Does anyone care? It seems not that long ago when Oscars Night was second only to Super Bowl Sunday for automatic TV party-gathering. You got together with friends to nosh, fill out a ballot, judge the fashion, groan at the winners and drink every time someone breathlessly…
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Magic Moments: ‘It’s good theater karma’
LITTLETON • Every non-pandemic spring since 1983, Magic Moments has presented a massive … massive! … pop-music revue that gathers able-bodied and special-needs performers of all ages on the same stage to sing, dance, ham it up, laugh, cry and commune side by side. OK, not so massive this COVID comeback year — the cast…
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Arvada Center spurs citywide Ukraine refugee donation effort
Employees from the city of Arvada, working in partnership with the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, organized a citywide collection last week that filled three minivans with essential goods for Ukrainian refugees who are now streaming into Poland. The bounty, which included practical items including tents, sleeping bags, clothing, toiletries, diapers, bedding, first-aid…
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Colorado Business Committee for the Arts honors those who use art as a tool for resilience
Meow Wolf Denver and Boulder’s The Colorado Chautauqua were among those honored today at the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts’ annual awards ceremony that more than anything acknowledged organizations and individuals who offered hope and resiliency through the pandemic and recent climate disasters. The Colorado Chautauqua partnered with Cal-Wood Education Center for Art in…
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Alec Baldwin addresses ‘Rust’ lawsuit head-on at Boulder film festival
BOULDER • A genial but determined Alec Baldwin told a packed Boulder Theater audience on Saturday night he’s confident he will be cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the accidental shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on the set of the film “Rust” last October. “I am very hopeful that…
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‘The Batman’ is the perfect film for our troubled times | John Moore
Everyone is talking about “The Batman” right now. Even people who don’t know what they are talking about. (Like me.) I’m not well-schooled in the DC universe. But I know a zeitgeist movie when I see one, and “The Batman” really is the perfect movie for this imperfect moment in America. It comes amid two…
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Marshall Fire Benefit Concert has raised nearly $750,000 so far
BOULDER – If the Marshall Fire Benefit Concert were to be held outdoors, host Nick Forster said at its online launch Monday night, “there isn’t a stadium in the world that would be big enough for this.” The virtual concert has raised more than $750,000 for victims of the most devastating fire in Colorado history,…