Looking back at 2020, Colorado Academy Vocal Music Director Dr. Kevin Padworski remembers the downbeat—the first indication that his professional world was abou...
It stood for 43 years, providing a home for countless plays, musicals, meetings, concerts, assemblies, recitals, and Town Halls, but it did not take long for Co...
If there were a Colorado Academy award for pulling off the seemingly impossible, The Upper School Advanced Acting students, led by their teacher Steve Scherer, ...
With the exception of an overnight Labor Day transformation from summer to snowy winter, Colorado Academy has enjoyed a warm, pleasant, and dry—very dry—autumn....
The Big Draw returned to Colorado Academy for two days at the beginning of October, bringing with it beautiful weather, turtles and trees, dolphins and daisies....
I remember when I was in elementary school in the late 1970s, hearing Eddie Van Halen’s famous guitar solo “Eruption.” It was life changing. Word of his death e...
The future home of Colorado Academy's performing arts program reached two important milestones recently: the Froelicher Theatre was demolished, and we received ...
The Field House space after students finished renovating it
What does a Theater Department do during a year where they have no theater and are in a global p...
If you ever walked past the back of the Froelicher Theatre at Colorado Academy, you may have stopped to look at oversized doors with a mural of bright yellow bu...
It stood for 43 years, providing a home for countless plays, musicals, meetings, concerts, assemblies, recitals, and Town Halls, but it did not take long for Co...
The Ponzio Arts Center is a happy place to be these days. Not only have our young artists started to make art in the studios again, but our gallery walls are gr...
The Specials at Colorado Academy Pre-Kindergarten are aptly named. These are times of each day when students leave their classroom to do a “special” activity: d...
At Colorado Academy, there are always three “A” disciplines in every student’s life—Academics, Athletics, and the Arts. While some might question the need for a...
By Bailey Walker ’20
The coronavirus pandemic has upended almost everything in our daily lives. As a third tri Senior at Colorado Academy, I dreaded logging...
If you had taken a stroll through the studios of Colorado Academy’s Ponzio Arts Center before March 13, 2020, you might think you were walking through the studi...
Will Ungar
Senior Will Ungar had never been deeply involved in the Colorado Academy student government, but COVID-19 changed all that. “Some kids say, ‘Well...
Colorado Academy Senior Aidan Klingbeil remembers the day that the Upper School musical, The Addams Family, was officially canceled by the director, Mr. Scherer...
I will miss John Prine. Much has been written about Prine’s tremendous song writing and observations of American society since his death earlier this week due t...
For Bryan Terrell Clark, who played George Washington in Hamilton on Broadway, this was a first.
Never before had he spoken to nearly 1,000 students rang...
When the Colorado Academy Middle School performed Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance in February 2020, it brought the Froelicher Theatre full circle...
What intrigued you about the position of Vocal Music Director at Colorado Academy?
I was fascinated by CA’s reputation in Colorado. I knew already the facilit...
