Production History

HISTORY OF SHADOW THEATRE COMPANY

Shadow Theatre Company
PO Box 1645
Aurora, CO 80040

Box Office
720-857-8000

Shadow Theatre Company begins as a for-profit theatre company, performing at the Ralph Waldo Emerson Center presenting the regional premiere of Innocent Thoughts

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Shadow produces 2 original plays: Voices from the Soul & In Search of Eckstine: A Love Story

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With the closing of the historic Eulipions, Shadow Theatre Company becomes Denver's only black theatre company in regular operation

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Shadow begins the summer youth program with Xpressions 2000

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Shadow recruits esteemed director Israel Hicks to remount In Search of Eckstine: A Love Story, which earns Shadow it's first Ovation Award

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Shadow Theatre Company premieres it's 3rd original production- Sweet Corner Symphony

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Shadow employs director Buddy Butler for an Afro-centric Shakespearean production

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Shadow earns first Ovation Award for Best Drama with the regional premiere of Topdog/Underdog

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Shadow produces 3 regional premieres, including a play by Ted Lange

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First year of CRUNK, presenting Shadows of Adolescence; Shadow's final season at the McGlone Center (formerly the Ralph Waldo Emerson Center)

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Shadow Theatre Company moves into new theatre in Aurora with the best selling Dinah Was

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Final season with Jeffrey Nickelson as Artistic Director after Smokey Joe's Cafe acheives record sales & Joe Turner's Come and Gone earns Shadow's second Best Drama Ovation Award, as well as 2 Henry Awards

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Hugo Jon Sayles becomes Artistic Director, joined by Shadow's first Executive Director- Karon Majeel; Shadow recruits it's first female director- Debbie J Lee and also premieres its 4th original production- The Life & Times of Ol' Alfred

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Shadow honors its founder Jeffrey Nickelson by remounting 3 of his iconic productions, as well a premiering its 5th original production- An Evening with Nina as it moves out of the Dayton Street Theatre and opens the fourth remount of In Search of Eckstine: A Love Story at Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic

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