Article: SECOND AVENUE ASHTON'S THEATER BACK IN BUSINESS AT A NEW ADDRESS.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Byline: Lisa Bornstein

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

When John Ashton lost his space, the Avenue Theater almost was lost forever.

After running one of the area's only commercial theaters for a decade he was spent - and bewildered by the landlord's decision to turn the 17th Avenue building into a banquet hall.

``I went down to southern Colorado and tried to rid my brain of all thought and worry and dread and that stuff,'' Ashton says. ``At the same time, I couldn't give up the desire to have a theater.''

After careers as a journalist, radio host and raconteur for hire, Ashton had found his calling.

``I love the process of creating theater,'' Ashton says. ...

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