Tag: caitlin lowans
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Colorado Springs theater company to mount ‘Sense and Sensibility’ for holiday season
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s a timeless question: Is it best to follow our hearts or our heads? Many have tried to answer the unanswerable question, including Jane Austen, whose 1811 novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” explores its nuances. The story follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother…
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Colorado Springs theater company to mount ‘Sense and Sensibility’ for holiday season
It’s a timeless question: Is it best to follow our hearts or our heads? Many have tried to answer the unanswerable question, including Jane Austen, whose 1811 novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” explores its nuances. The story follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother after they’re forced to leave their family estate and move…
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Longtime Colorado Springs theater company announces departure of artistic director
After more than six years leading Theatreworks, Caitlin Lowans is leaving to head up another theater company. Lowans, only the second artistic director in the 49-year history of the professional regional theater company, will depart for Ten Thousand Things Theater in Minneapolis, Minn., where she’ll take over as artistic director in February. She’ll direct Theatreworks’…
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Colorado Springs theater company offers free Shakespeare in locations around Pikes Peak region
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Shakespeare play doesn’t need an elaborate set, intricate costumes or a huge cast to make it a crowd-pleaser. Sometimes the playwright’s work can thrive with half a dozen actors, no set, and props that include sponges and rubber gloves, and all performed in a…
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Colorado Springs theater company offers free Shakespeare in locations around Pikes Peak region
A Shakespeare play doesn’t need an elaborate set, intricate costumes or a huge cast to make it a crowd-pleaser. Sometimes the playwright’s work can thrive with half a dozen actors, no set, and props that include sponges and rubber gloves, and all performed in a park, library, senior center, school or community center. This is…
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Colorado Springs music venues, theater companies look back on wreckage of 2020
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save We all know 2020 wreaked havoc upon those who entertain us. The musicians and actors, the music venues and theater companies. Jobs and gigs were lost. Shows were canceled. Entire seasons were slashed. But was there some gold in the rubble? For artists, the urge…
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Colorado Springs music venues, theater companies look back on wreckage of 2020
We all know 2020 wreaked havoc upon those who entertain us. The musicians and actors, the music venues and theater companies. Jobs and gigs were lost. Shows were canceled. Entire seasons were slashed. But was there some gold in the rubble? For artists, the urge to create can’t be dampened. So people found other ways…
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TheatreWorks in Colorado Springs announces new artistic director
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Caitlin Lowans Caitlin Lowans loves her theater. Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, no doubt. But also French classical comedies such as Molière, Spanish Golden Age dramas, midcentury playwrights, Lillian Hellman and Alice Childress, multigenerational stories, new work and unsung historical works by women. And, of…
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TheatreWorks in Colorado Springs announces new artistic director
Caitlin Lowans Caitlin Lowans loves her theater. Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, no doubt. But also French classical comedies such as Molière, Spanish Golden Age dramas, midcentury playwrights, Lillian Hellman and Alice Childress, multigenerational stories, new work and unsung historical works by women. And, of course, William Shakespeare, which comes in handy for her new…