Down the rabbit hole to a great new stage
The Colorado Academy Leach Center for the Performing Arts came to life on October 29 and 30, 2021,...
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Drawn to a higher purpose
Since 2010, The Big Draw has been a big hit every year at Colorado Academy, but 2021 seemed...
The curtain rises on the Leach Center for the Performing Arts
“You feel like you are inside the Denver Center for the Performing Arts!” Director of Visual &...
Bryan Terrell Clark brings down the house—again
Broadway talent scouts need look no further than Colorado Academy’s Lower School to discover the new cast for...
Leach Center prepares to make its debut
In April, when Steve Scherer, Chairman of Theater and Dance, gave a group of Colorado Academy students a sneak peek inside the unfinished...
Joyce Li’s final note
Sometimes, when people say they are leaving their position to “spend more time with their family,” they really...
Harry Waters Jr. ’71: Actor, teacher, activist, and much more
If you’ve seen Back to the Future—either I or II—then you’ve seen the talents of Harry Waters Jr. ’71 in action. Waters played Chuck Berry’s fictional cousin Marvin...
Don’t miss this video about courage, identity, and pride
Dignity, self-affirmation, and equality: these are traits we all hope to achieve at some point in our lives,...
How do you pull off a musical in a pandemic? Just ask CA performers.
“Rain or shine or snow, we are going to give it a shot.” That’s how Director Maclain Looper...
‘Make & Believe’ at the All-School Art Festival!
In response to COVID-19 restrictions, the beloved All-School Art Festival moved outside this year with a new theme—”Make...
Final stages of Leach Center construction build a buzz on campus
There’s quite a buzz on campus, as the Colorado Academy community keeps a watchful eye on the final...
Portfolio Shows, a pandemic, and parents
About 10 minutes into the second evening Portfolio Show of the year, Director of Visual & Performing Arts...
Award-winning posters express urgency on climate change
What are you In Pursuit Of …? Colorado Academy Senior Gigi Beardsley and Junior Alyssa Wilson, when presented...
Practicing and performing music during a pandemic
As Chair of the Colorado Academy Music Department, Phil Jones is not given to dramatic pronouncements or hyperbole....
Interdisciplinary course creates ‘The Joy Project’
Ellen Clowes is a Colorado Academy Freshman who describes herself as “more artistic than a computer science kind...
Singers turn into composers during COVID-19
Looking back at 2020, Colorado Academy Vocal Music Director Dr. Kevin Padworski remembers the downbeat—the first indication that...
Looking forward to the Leach Center for the Performing Arts
It stood for 43 years, providing a home for countless plays, musicals, meetings, concerts, assemblies, recitals, and Town...
The show must go on!
If there were a Colorado Academy award for pulling off the seemingly impossible, The Upper School Advanced Acting...
How did the Leach Center for the Performing Arts get ahead of schedule?
With the exception of an overnight Labor Day transformation from summer to snowy winter, Colorado Academy has enjoyed...
The Big Draw tackles the big Earth
The Big Draw returned to Colorado Academy for two days at the beginning of October, bringing with it...
RIP Eddie Van Halen
I remember when I was in elementary school in the late 1970s, hearing Eddie Van Halen’s famous guitar...