February 2012
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Post 3 - When First We Practice to Deceive: Denver...
Reprinted from Prologue, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s subscriber newsletter
GREAT WALL STORY is a clever playwright’s riff on a daring—some might say foolhardy—event that transpired in Denver on the cusp of the 20th century. Four journalists looking for a story and finding none, conspired over drinks at The Oxford Hotel to concoct a tall tale sure to draw attention. China, they...
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Post 4 - When First We Practice to Deceive: Denver...
Reprinted from Prologue, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s subscriber newsletter
GREAT WALL STORY is a clever playwright’s riff on a daring—some might say foolhardy—event that transpired in Denver on the cusp of the 20th century. Four journalists looking for a story and finding none, conspired over drinks at The Oxford Hotel to concoct a tall tale sure to draw attention. China, they...
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Post 2 - When First We Practice to Deceive: Denver...
Reprinted from Prologue, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s subscriber newsletter
GREAT WALL STORY is a clever playwright’s riff on a daring—some might say foolhardy—event that transpired in Denver on the cusp of the 20th century. Four journalists looking for a story and finding none, conspired over drinks at The Oxford Hotel to concoct a tall tale sure to draw attention. China, they...
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When First We Practice to Deceive: Denver Center...
Reprinted from Prologue, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s subscriber newsletter
GREAT WALL STORY is a clever playwright’s riff on a daring—some might say foolhardy—event that transpired in Denver on the cusp of the 20th century. Four journalists looking for a story and finding none, conspired over drinks at The Oxford Hotel to concoct a tall tale sure to draw attention. China, they...
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A Tall Tale, A Great Wall and Denver: Great Wall...
by Doug Langworthy, Literary Manager for the Denver Center Theatre Company, for Applause magazine
In 1894 Denver was in the middle of a severe economic depression. The Silver Panic engulfed the city when the bottom fell out of the silver market. Unemployment was high and many banks had failed. Middle class families had to give up newly purchased homes. Angry citizens coalesced around the...
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Just in time for Valentine's Day: Relationship...
Our return engagement of I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE, playing now through June 24 in the Garner Galleria Theatre, is all about relationships. To coincide with this day that’s all about love, here are some tips from the cast to help you avoid those painful bumps in the road.
Heather Lacy: “My husband proposed to me in grand fashion on Valentine’s Day years ago, and...
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Day 6: Colorado New Play Summit concludes
A packed house of 500 patrons just saw the final reading at our 2012 COLORADO NEW PLAY SUMMIT. Based on the novel by JANE AUSTEN, with Book & Lyrics by Jeffrey Haddow and Music by Neal Hampton, SENSE & SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL was a lovely conclusion to our three-day new play festival.
If you haven’t seen the interviews, please tune in to get a glimpse at what happened during...
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Day 5d: Colorado New Play Summit
Our second day of readings (more if you are in a cast) wrapped up with the world premiere of Samuel D. Hunter’s THE WHALE. Read last year during the COLORADO NEW PLAY SUMMIT, this new, riveting play was recently extended for an additional week.
This moving play about a man who has dealt with adversity by eating his way to the brink of death, had the 250-person crowd riveted. Determined to...
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Day 5c: Colorado New Play Summit
Michael Mitnick’s multi-media play, ED, DOWNLOADED, just let out at our COLORADO NEW PLAY SUMMIT. Question: if you were able to preserve 10 memories, what would they be?
That’s exactly what Ed’s wife discovers following his death. Set sometime in the future, Ed had the ability to preserve 10 memories that would live in perpetuity. Unfortunately for him, his wife didn’t...
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Day 5b: Colorado New Play Summit
We’ve just wrapped up our third reading of the COLORADO NEW PLAY SUMMIT. Lisa Loomer’s HOMEFREE was a moving play about three homeless youths. During the course of the play, we gained insight into each of their motivations behind seeking a life on the streets vs. the relative security of their own homes or a shelter.
Consider what “Homefree” means - free of the constraints...
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Day 4c: Colorado New Play Summit
Following two exciting new play readings, our guests headed into the world premiere of TWO THINGS YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT AT DINNER. One of the most exhilarating aspects of a new play festival is when you can see the play’s development from a reading one year to a full production in a subsequent year.
That’s what we experienced with Lisa Loomer’s play about how the taboo...
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Day 4b: Colorado New Play Summit
The second reading of the COLORADO NEW PLAY SUMMIT just let out - Richard Dresser’s THE HAND OF GOD. Filled with humor and innuendo, this new play explores what happens when life becomes entertainment.
If you’ve ever wondered what’s more unreal - reality or reality TV - then this biting comedy fits the bill. With his love life and career in disarray, Joe valiantly struggles to...
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Day 4a: Colorado New Play Summit
GRACE, OR THE ART OF CLIMBING by Lauren Feldman just completed its first reading during our COLORADO NEW PLAY SUMMIT to an enthusiastic response from the 200+ audience members.
Professional rock climbing serves as a metaphor and catalyst in a young athlete’s life. Much as our own Colorado Rockies have peaks and valleys, so to does Emm’s life in a variety of ways - health, emotions,...
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Day 3: Colorado New Play Summit
Wow! A combined 125 hours of rehearsal have been put into preparing for our COLORADO NEW PLAY SUMMIT, which begins tomorrow! Plus we are officially SOLD OUT. (If you want to come and don’t have a ticket, you are still encouraged to head down and check for available seats.) But at this point we have DOUBLED the number of “industry” representatives over last year.
PLAYWRIGHTS who...
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Day 2: Colorado New Play Summit
The second day of the COLORADO NEW PLAY SUMMIT had our 100 artistic team members actively engaged in five hours of rehearsal. The casts and crews of Lisa Loomer’s HOMEFREE and Richard Dresser’s THE HAND OF GOD had an “on stage” rehearsal when they worked in The Jones and The Ricketson theatres respectively.
Meanwhile, the casts and crews of Jeffrey Haddow and Neal...
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Handle with...
By Dan Sullivan for Applause magazine
What’s in a name? Shakespeare gives his romantic comedies evasive titles (As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing) that set the mood but say nothing about the plot. Perhaps he was still working on it.
But The Taming of the Shrew says it all. There will be a bossy woman, also known as a scold. Somebody—doubtless a man—will put her in her place. And all will...
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Kent Thompson opens Colorado New Play Summit
And we’re off! More than 100 playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, actors, stage managers and other key staff gathered this morning to kick off the DENVER CENTER THEATRE COMPANY’s seventh COLORADO NEW PLAY SUMMIT.
Five readings of new works in development, plus two full productions of new plays and the ever-popular Playwrights’ Slam will be experienced by theatre industry...
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Wicked: Facts & Figures
Currently in its 9th year on Broadway, WICKED’s North American and international companies have cumulatively grossed $2.5 billion and have been seen by over 30 million people worldwide.
NORTH AMERICA
The New York Times called WICKED “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster” and, more recently, the Times referred to WICKED as “the defining musical of the decade.”
Over 6 million people have seen WICKED on...
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Talking About Two Things You Don't Talk About At...
by Sylvie Drake for Applause magazine
The highlight of her film acting career, says Lisa Loomer, was getting to say, “Wanna go out?” on screen to Paul Newman. “I was frustrated by the kinds of roles I got, not so much in the theatre, but certainly on TV and film.
“I played a lot of Latin hookers.”
It’s one of the reasons she became a playwright.
Loomer, who was born and grew up in New York until...
