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Arvada Center Voted “Best Local Theater”
Arvada Center
Best Local Theater
The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is far and away the winner by voters. The center has produced memorable plays for years and continues to raise the bar with difficult productions that require advanced staging such as “Miss Saigon” (complete with the iconic helicopter scene). READ MORE HERE
King of rock ‘n’ roll painting… (Associated Press)
King of rock ‘n’ roll painting gets own exhibit
By CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press Writer
Friday, July 16, 2010 at 2:46 a.m.
ARVADA, Colo. — Billed as the two-fisted art attack, painter Denny Dent made his name creating quick-draw portraits to live music, sometimes before thousands of concertgoers.
Using as many as three brushes in each hand, Dent splashed paint over sprawling canvases and himself, with subjects ranging from Jimi Hendrix to John Lennon to President Bill Clinton.
Dent was more a performance artist than studio painter…
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1 Comment“All Shook Up” is a hunka summertime fun
By John Moore – Denver Post Theater Critic
Posted: 07/15/2010 01:00:00 PM MDT
For the sake of civility and expediency, what say we dispense with (most of) the many reasons recycled tripe like the Elvis knockoff “All Shook Up” is the scourge of the contemporary American musical.
It’s also fun. Maddeningly and begrudgingly. And, as they say in both theater and youth soccer: “If you had fun, you won.”
Even though exploiting existing song catalogs from the Four Seasons to Green Day is the most bottom-feeding, laziest form of artistic creation, there’s nothing lazy — not a single thing —
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Elvis lives again in Arvada’s ‘All Shook Up’
July 14th, 2010, 4:38 pm · Post a Comment · posted by twallinger
Grade: B+
The press release describes it as “Twelfth Night” meets “Music Man” meets “Pleasantville.” As I was watching it, I was thinking “Footloose” meets “As You Like It” with some “Romeo and Juliet” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” mixed in.
No, the show is not exactly original. But it is a whole lot of fun. And that makes it the perfect musical for these lazy, laid-back days of summer.
Channel 12
In Focus with Eden Lane
Sunday, June 27 at 11:00 pm on Channel 12.1
Eden Lane gets all the details on the Arvada Center’s “Centerfest” part of Summer at the Center. Mark Arnold gives us the rundown on the local artists, and a glimpse of the national acts coming to the amphitheater. (READ MORE HERE)
Arvada Center – 2010 Henry Award Nominations
The new-look Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award nominations have come out, with the Arvada Center leading the way with a whopping 29 (count ‘em) finalists for the fifth annual awards, which will be handed out Monday, July 19, at the Denver Center’s Space Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. 
The Arvada Center’s umpteenth production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” led all productions with a massive 14 nominations. Its “Miss Saigon” closely followed with 12.
