Colorado Theatre Educators Recognized

The Alliance for Colorado Theatre, a professional organization for theatre educators recently announced the following awards for Colorado theatre educators in 2008:

Elementary Level Theatre Educator of the Year
Maureen Hines, Grant Ranch School

Middle Level Theatre Educator of the Year
Carla McWilliams, Euclid Middle School

Senior High Theatre Educator of the Year
Carrie Barnhardt-Roberson, Pine Creek High School

Higher Education Theatre Educator of the Year
Pamela Jamruszka Mencher, Red Rocks College

Colorado Theatre Educator of the Year (Knaub Award)

Stanford Paris, Heritage High School (Retired)

Community/Professional Theatre Company of the Year

Aurora Fox Theatre (Educational Programs)

Distinguished Service Award (Within the profession)
Tam Dalrymple Frye, DCPA

Distinguished Service Award (Theatre Advocate - Outside the profession)
Kat Powers, Parent Volunteer for Columbine High School

Nominations are being accepted for 2009. If you know a theatre educator or organization that deserves to be nominated, visit the ACT website today! The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2009.

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Actors needed for Beauty and the Beast at THAC

Actors needed for
Beauty and the Beast
at Town Hall Arts Center
Town Hall Arts Center is seeking 2 male (Ensemble) and 1 female (Babette) actors between the ages of 20 and 30 for their upcoming Fall production of Beauty and the Beast. Musical theatre background required. The show runs from November 14th to December 29th, playing mostly Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights and Sunday matinees. Some Saturday matinees, Sunday evenings and Wednesday evenings, also. Positions are paid.

Interested parties should send a headshot and resume via email to Pam Clifton, Town Hall Arts Center’s Production Manager at pclifton@townhallartscenter.com, as soon as possible.

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Children’s Theater in Colorado

We’ve added a page specifically for children’s theater programs in Colorado. If your children’s theater company is not listed, please email us at info @ theatrecolorado.com (remove the spaces) and we will get your company added.

Please let us know about your upcoming classes and performances!

CHILDREN’S THEATER IN COLORADO

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Vintage Theatre Announces Season Auditions

Vintage Theatre Season Auditions will be held Saturday, October 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call backs will be held on Sunday, October 26 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 - 10 p.m.

All auditions will be held at Vintage Theatre - 2119 East 17th Ave - Denver, CO 80206 by appointment only.

Call 303-839-1361 for appointment time.

Prepare a 2 min. monologue (comic, dramatic or classic).

Bring 4 headshots/resumes – one for each director.

Shows are listed below and character descriptions for each production will be available by September 12th.

February 20 – March 22, 2009
And the Winner Is…
By Mitch Albom; Directed by Craig A. Bond
This is the story of Tyler Johnes, a self-obsessed movie star, who is finally nominated for an Oscar, then dies the night before the awards. Outraged at his bad luck and determined to know if he wins (even though he’s dead), he bargains with a heavenly gatekeeper to return to earth for the big night. Along the way, he drags his agent, his acting rival, his bombshell girlfriend and his ex-wife into the journey, in a wildly twisting tale of Hollywood and the afterlife.

April 3 – May 3, 2009
Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare; Directed by Rob Kramer
One of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays! The young and impulsive Romeo and beguiling and passionate Juliet are the original “star-crossed lovers” whose feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets, will never allow them to follow their hearts.

May 15 – June 14, 2009
Kimberly Akimbo
By David Lindsay-Abaire; Directed by Bernie Cardell
Set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, Kimberly Akimbo is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than it should. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love.

July 10 – August 9, 2009
The Violet Hour
By Richard Greenberg; Directed by Stacey Nelms
It’s April 1st, 1919, and young independent publisher John Pace Seavering only has enough capital to put out one book. John finds himself besieged by two authors: his lifelong best friend and his mistress. In the midst of this conflict, a machine of mysterious provenance and purpose has arrived and is spewing out stacks of pages. What’s written on these pages will throw John’s every hope and plan into disarray.

August 21 – September 20, 2009
Dial ‘M’ For Murder
By Frederick Knott; Directed by Bernie Cardell
It’s the perfect murder. Tony Wendice has married his wife Margot for her money and plans to murder her before she leaves him for another man. Unfortunately…..the man he hired to kill her gets murdered himself and Margot survives, and Tony must act quickly to have Margot convicted of his murder. It’s one spine-tingling scene after another as Tony, Margot, her lover and a Scotland Yard detective play a deadly game of cat and mouse. Who will get caught in the trap?

October 2 – October 31, 2009
Halloween Dreams
By L. Don Swartz; Directed by Craig A. Bond
Halloween Dreams is a wonderful, nostalgic, family thriller. For the month of October, Gram Doobie rules her daughter’s household. She’s a Halloween fanatic, and she and her grandchildren celebrate all month. Although it’s all in good fun, this year there’s a real-life murderer on the loose and he’s struck just ten blocks away! A fun and fright-filled Halloween treat for the whole family!

November 6 – December 6, 2009
Den of Thieves
By Stephen Adly Guirgis; Directed by Bernie Cardell
A safe-cracking robbery is no place for kleptomaniacs Maggie and Paul who join forces with Puerto Rican wannabe Flaco and the ultra-fabulous topless dancer Boochie in order to pull off the perfect crime to steal $750,000 in drug money. But when this rag-tag bunch of crooks gets caught, the perfect crime quickly turns into a high-octane, 12-Stepping, double-crossing, hysterical battle for survival.

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Miscast 2008

Denver’s finest talent performing roles they’d never be considered for!

Very glamorous…and a little bit inappropriate!

MISCAST 2008
September 27 7:30PM
The Aurora Fox Studio Theater
Purchase Tickets

Miscast presents some of Denver theater’s most talented performers, representing theaters all over the Denver-metropolitan area and performing songs and scenes they would never otherwise perform because they are completely WRONG for the part. Join us at the Aurora Fox for an evening of age and race-defying, gender-bending, general mayhem that gets a little crazy and outrageous every time!

Who will be crowned as the first
“Miss Cast?”

For the first time ever, audience members will be invited to vote for their favorite miscast performer…to be named
“Miss Cast” in a grand finale ceremony!

Please join Next Stage for their annual fundraiser. Have a blast and support local theater!

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