Tag: acting
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‘Mean Girls: The Musical’ hits The Colorado Springs School as senior actor lands spot at NYU Tisch
There’s an unspoken rule at North Shore High School: know your place. For Regina George and the Plastics, that place is firmly at the top. In their kingdom of classrooms and a lunch cafeteria, power comes dressed in pink, and loyalty is as fragile as the latest rumor. For everyone else, including newcomer Cady Heron,…
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Springs Ensemble Theatre’s new play asks hard questions: ‘Can forgiveness follow the unthinkable?’
The door opens to a quiet house. No footsteps down the hallway. No voice calling from the next room. Even for a mother who craves a moment of peace from a busy life, this type of silence doesn’t feel quite right. At first, it’s easy to explain away. “My daughter’s late,” Nancy Shirley said. “She…
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Colorado Springs high school student to perform at Carnegie Hall
When Kye Galvin first discovered a love of music — at about age 4 — neither he nor his parents ever dreamed that he would one day perform at New York City’s legendary Carnegie Hall. But that’s exactly what will happen on Feb. 9, when he takes the stage with about 400 of the world’s most…
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Bringing ‘yes, and’ to the courtroom: Retired judge talks about her other life as an improv actor
The day Julie Field was sworn in as a trial judge in Larimer County, she began an improvisational comedy class. “I knew I would need something outside of the court in my life that was creative and spontaneous and fun,” she recalled. Field, who retired in 2021 as a judge on the Eighth Judicial District…
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LIFE | Behind the scenes of an outdoor shadow puppet production in Colorado Springs
Theatreworks members rehearse for an upcoming production of “The Mitten,” a shadow puppet adaptation of a Ukrainian folk tale about a boy’s lost mitten in the forest. The show will this Friday through Sunday and Feb. 26-28 at the UCCS Ent Center for the Arts. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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LIFE | Improv classes offer relief for anxiety
Local improv classes offer relief for anxiety. (Video by Katie Klann)