Author: T.D. Mobley-Martinez
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Commanding lead actor the heart of TheatreWorks’ ‘Born Yesterday’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ah, a break from the holly jolly, jingle jangle overload of the season: TheatreWorks’ production of “Born Yesterday,” which runs through Dec. 24, has not even a hint of the craziest (and sweetest) season of…
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THEATER REVIEW: ‘Gary Busey’s One-Man ‘Hamlet’ at Millabo’ is laugh out loud funny
It’s not hard to imagine what you’re going to get with a play called “Gary Busey’s One-Man ‘Hamlet’”: a wacked-out collision between the Bard and an over-the-top actor now virtually satirizing himself on Amazon.com commercials and reality TV shows. And that’s pretty much what writer and actor David Carl delivers in his manic multi- media…
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TheatreWorks’ ‘Ghosts’ misses the mark
If you’ve ever studied drama, you’ll know the work of Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright and rabble rouser responsible for some of the greatest plays of the late 19th century. “A Doll’s House.” “Enemy of the People.” “Hedda Gabler.” And the masterpiece “Ghosts,” which runs through Nov. 8 at TheatreWorks. Written in 1881, Ibsen’s follow-up…
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REVIEW: Experimental ‘Ludlow, 1914’ ambitious, but too often confusing
On April 20, 1914, about 12 miles northwest of Trinidad, two women and 11 children suffered fiery deaths, the end of a long and acrimonious struggle among the Colorado National Guard, the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. guards and striking coal miners. What came to be known as the Ludlow Massacre was “the culminating…
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“the roosevelts:” The man with the words
As problems go, winnowing down a lifetime of knowledge into a mere 14 hours ranks a tough one. “I could have done a hundred hours,” says Geoffrey C. Ward, laughing. The seven-time Emmy winner has written nearly every documentary renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has produced, including “The Civil War,” “Baseball” and “Jazz.” Ward has also…
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BRINGING HISTORY ALIVE:Ken burns offers ‘intimate’ portrait of THE ROOSEVELTS
Like history or not, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has a way of hooking you. Call it a gotcha moment; that second when big-picture names and dates become personal and universal, flesh and blood. In his new seven-part series “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” it comes early in Episode 1. At 23, Theodore Roosevelt has already…
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Melissa Etheridge plays Colorado Springs Monday
7 p.m. Monday, Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade Ave., $45.50-$60; 799-4139, pikespeakcenter.com For at least one generation of women (and yes, probably some men), singer- songwriter Melissa Etheridge has told their stories. Of heartache, certainly. Of defiance and struggle. And, sometimes, of happiness, the kind so pyrotechnic that it’s doomed to burn out all too…
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Top 10 things you probably didn’t know about B.B. King
So, you think you know blues master B.B. King, who plays Thursday at Pikes Peak Center. Maybe not. Hey, no worries. Here are 10 tidbits about his life that will make you the go-to guy or gal at the concert. King was born in a sharecroppers cabin on a Mississippi plantation in 1925. His real…
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Popular indie band Wild Cub on a wild ride
You don’t often run into a pop musician who peppers his conversation with heady ideas like abstraction and the subconscious, the musical value of absence and the mundanity of the most profound moments in our lives. Like “Youth,” Wild Cub’s debut album, singer-songwriter-idealist Keegan DeWitt is all about layering. Ideas. Sounds. Imagery. Memories. Storytelling. The…
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Colorado Springs pastor ponders heeding call of the gospel (and God) in new book
Rob Bentz laughs kindly at the question. When did you know you were called to God? It turns out that being chosen by God isn’t a Cecil B. DeMille production: puffy clouds, rays of golden light, angels playing harps and a wise, bearded deity reaching out to shake Bentz’s hand. Bentz – a pastor at…