Mary Poppins makes merry with two Marys
How many actors does it take to play Mary Poppins in the 2022 Colorado Academy Upper School...
Performing arts
Upper School play showcases new theater
Theater teacher Maclain Looper knows his reputation in the Colorado Academy theater community. “Sad play? Looper must be...
The 39 Steps: a gem of a show!
With a new stage and pure excitement for the return of traditional theater performances, the Colorado Academy Upper...
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,...
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...
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...
16 inches of snow? Pandemic? No theater? No problem!
What does a group of actors do on the night of their final performance, during a pandemic, without...
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....
Living the Mission: Adventurous
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of articles about ways that Colorado Academy is living its...
The sound of laughter
The greatest gift of being on campus these last three months has been hearing so much laughter. Last...
The show must go on!
If there were a Colorado Academy award for pulling off the seemingly impossible, The Upper School Advanced Acting...
A look inside the new Leach Center for the Performing Arts
The future home of Colorado Academy’s performing arts program reached two important milestones recently: the Froelicher Theatre was...
When life gives you lemons…
What does a Theater Department do during a year where they have no theater and are in a...
How CA said ‘Bye, old friend’
It stood for 43 years, providing a home for countless plays, musicals, meetings, concerts, assemblies, recitals, and Town...
The advantage of the arts
At Colorado Academy, there are always three “A” disciplines in every student’s life—Academics, Athletics, and the Arts. While...
No stage, no audience, no problem
Colorado Academy Senior Aidan Klingbeil remembers the day that the Upper School musical, The Addams Family, was officially...
Bryan Terrell Clark: ‘You have to be brave’
For Bryan Terrell Clark, who played George Washington in Hamilton on Broadway, this was a first. Never before...
The Pirates of Penzance, from 1978 to 2020
When the Colorado Academy Middle School performed Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance in February 2020, it...
Kevin Padworski: First Impressions of CA singers
What intrigued you about the position of Vocal Music Director at Colorado Academy? I was fascinated by CA’s...
Gift honors teacher, helps make Performing Arts Center a reality
Check out the many cast photos hanging in the Froelicher Theatre, from Robin Hood to to Seussical, Annie to Pippin, and for nearly a...