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Theater review: “Gary Busey’s One-Man ‘Hamlet'” in Colorado Springs is laugh-out-loud funny
by T.D. Mobley-Martinez Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, Friday Nov. 20, 2015 Read it here It’s not hard to imagine what you’re going to get with a play called “Gary Busey’s One-Man ‘Hamlet'”: a wacked-out collision between the Bard and an over-the-top actor now virtually satirizing himself on Amazon.com commercials and reality TV shows. And that’s pretty much what writer and actor David Carl delivers in his manic multi- media show, a breakout hit of the 2014 New York International Fringe...
read moreTheater Colorado Review: STICK GUNS
Written by Bill Wheeler Playwright: Jim Jackson Venue: Millibo Art Theatre, 1626 S. Tejon Street, Colorado Springs CO. Running Time: 1 hour, 25 minutes (no intermission) Date of Performance: Friday, October 23, 2015. Heads up. This post will include very little detail about the arc of the story. Details would ruin the experience, and I could not handle that level of guilt. Any theater piece with a one person cast is risky. Jim Jackson wrote Stick Guns, and he is the only actor on the stage for the entire performance. The script is...
read moreMillibo Art Theatre aims to reinvent performing arts
by Jeanne Davant Published in Life After 50 (October, 2015) Millibo Art Theatre founders Birgitta De Pree and Jim Jackson assume their alter egos of Babette Matdiva and Mr. Art Guffaw. It’s not often that you meet someone whose business card says, “Executive Director and Clown,” or someone whose job involves donning a curly red wig and transforming into a wacky alter ego called Babette Matdiva. Those job descriptions apply to Jim Jackson and Birgitta De Pree, the talented cofounders of the Millibo Art Theatre (MAT). The...
read moreMillibo Art Theatre keeps people smiling
ByMarija Vader Published in the Colorado Springs Business Journal, (June 8, 2015) It is the first day of the summer camps for children at the Millibo Art Theatre, and Executive Clown and Director Jim Jackson asks the instructor, “How’s it going?” “Really messy!” “Great!” said Jackson with his ever-present smile. In their course titled Messy Fun Camp, children aged 7 to 9 file outside behind the instructor, with their own smiles to match Jackson’s, because they’re on a mission: To make a mess. For Jackson, 59, and his wife, Artistic Director...
read moreThe Millibo Art Theatre: Innovation and the Conversation of Performance
By Alissa Smith Published in The Healthy Coloradan (August, 2015) The award-winning Millibo Art Theatre, a dynamic and intimate performing arts center, is newly rooted in the heart of the Ivywild neighborhood in downtown Colorado Springs. The building is emblazoned with a red exclamation point, fanciful mosaics, and an important snippet of the theatre’s mission statement, “Creating new theatre for the Pikes Peak Region.” This is only one aspect of the organization that has been changing the performing arts scene in Colorado for fourteen...
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