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Western Illinois University's Steven House has earned an excellence award for his dedication to theatre education and design.
She and her family ran the opera house until 2016 when the City of Leadville bought it. Through all the changes and struggles, one thing remained; the stage scenery pieces.
But use of the opera house declined, and in 1954 the Elks needed to unload the building. Evelyn Furman, a Leadville businesswoman purchased it. She and her family ran the opera house until 2016 when ...
The Tabor Opera House was the first theater to go up in Leadville in 1879, and over 140 years later it is the only one left standing. Originally built by Horace Tabor, who made a $9 million fortune on ...
the scenery collection that has been stored at the Tabor Opera House has been declared as the finest collection of stage scenery on the continent.
The Weir is his debut at the Opera House - apart from hauling the scenery around. Playwright Conor McPherson wrote The Weir when he was 26.
Volunteers move painted shutters by 19th century set artist T. Frank Cox. Around 250 stage sets depicting scenes from 1879 to 1902 were discovered in the attic of the Tabor Opera House in 2018 ...