DCPA Supports New Work; Success of Most Produced Plays
Sandy Rustin, the playwright behind the world premiere production of The Suffragette’s Murder, has another trick up her sleeve. Her adaptation of the cult-classic Clue was one of the most produced...
View ArticleGetting Their Due: Women in Colorado History
In the Denver Center Theatre Company’s world premiere play, The Suffragette’s Murder by Sandy Rustin, it’s 1857, and a group of tenants is secretly working to support the bourgeoning suffrage movement....
View ArticleCaring for the Caregivers
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 91,000 individuals ages 65+ in Colorado are living with Alzheimer’s. On the national front, individuals diagnosed with dementia are projected to...
View ArticleQ&A with Yann Martel, Author of Life of Pi
Provided by Life of Pi, Education & Resources Packet Team. By Susie Ferguson for Mousetrap Theatre Projects, 2022 Can you start by telling us about the novel? Life of Pi is a literary novel which...
View Article10 Everyday Inventions You Didn’t Know Were German
Gutenberg! The Musical! – showing at the Garner Galleria Theatre through May 4 – is the meta spoof story of two playwrights auditioning a play about German inventor Johannes Gutenberg and his printing...
View ArticleAnother Home for Playwrights – Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Playwrights have turned to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts to hone their craft since it opened in 1979 whether attending playwriting classes or submitting scripts for consideration. As the...
View Article10 Everyday Inventions You Didn’t Know Were German
Gutenberg! The Musical! – showing at the Garner Galleria Theatre through May 4 – is the meta spoof story of two playwrights auditioning a play about German inventor Johannes Gutenberg and his printing...
View ArticleAnother Home for Playwrights – Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Playwrights have turned to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts to hone their craft since it opened in 1979 whether attending playwriting classes or submitting scripts for consideration. As the...
View ArticleBanned Books in Colorado
In recent years, the DCPA has presented several productions based on books. A common theme among the novels? Seemingly controversial topics that have led to book bans. For example, the Denver Center...
View ArticleWomen in Pop Culture Politics
As the saying goes, “If you can see it, you can be it.” In popular culture, women have been portrayed as presidents, cabinet members, and corporate executives, and those portrayals have had an...
View ArticleWomen Who Have Shaped Denver
In celebration of Women’s History Month The Denver metro area has blossomed into a vibrant cosmopolitan center with a diverse economy, high educational attainment, and a thriving cultural scene. Its...
View ArticleBooker Prize Reading List
The Booker Prize is the “leading literary award in the English-speaking world,” or more succinctly, it is a prize that transforms the winner’s career. Each year, a panel of judges reads hundreds of...
View ArticleGiving Voice to Female Playwrights
In the 2005 theatre season, The New York Times reported that the city’s five leading Off-Broadway theatre companies produced 27 plays and only five — or 19% — were written by women. In that same...
View ArticleBen Fankhauser and Gizel Jiménez Lead Denver Center Theatre Company Little...
The Denver Center Theatre Company is excited to announce the full casting and creative team for the beloved sci-fi musical Little Shop of Horrors with direction by Theatre Company Artistic Director...
View ArticleShaping the Future of the American Theatre
Called the “Super Bowl of Theatre” by OnStage Colorado, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Colorado New Play Summit rests at the pinnacle of new play development in America. And this year’s 19th...
View ArticleBooker Prize Reading List
The Booker Prize is the “leading literary award in the English-speaking world,” or more succinctly, it is a prize that transforms the winner’s career. Each year, a panel of judges reads hundreds of...
View ArticleGiving Voice to Female Playwrights
In the 2005 theatre season, The New York Times reported that the city’s five leading Off-Broadway theatre companies produced 27 plays and only five — or 19% — were written by women. In that same...
View ArticleBen Fankhauser and Gizel Jiménez Lead Denver Center Theatre Company Little...
The Denver Center Theatre Company is excited to announce the full casting and creative team for the beloved sci-fi musical Little Shop of Horrors with direction by Theatre Company Artistic Director...
View ArticleShaping the Future of the American Theatre
Called the “Super Bowl of Theatre” by OnStage Colorado, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Colorado New Play Summit rests at the pinnacle of new play development in America. And this year’s 19th...
View ArticleQ&A with Life of Pi Creatives
Take a look at the interviews below with three Life of Pi creatives: Yann Martel, author of the acclaimed novel; Max Webster, director; and Simon Friend, producer. Provided by Life of Pi, Education...
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