The lifeblood of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is our Denver Center Theatre Company, the region’s largest resident professional corps of actors, designers, craftsmen and technicians. These artists annually produce a season of classic and contemporary dramas and new works running fall to early summer on the stages of the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex:
Stage,
Space,
Ricketson and
Jones.
Since opening on New Year’s Eve 1979 with three concurrent productions of
The Caucasion Chalk Circle,
Moby Dick Rehearsed and
The Learned Ladies, we have been led by:
- Kent Thompson (2006 to current)
- Donovan Marley (1984 to 2005)
- Edward Payson Call (1979 to 1983)
To date, our production history includes more than 320 productions including 85 new works. In recognition of this achievement, we received the 1998 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.
To expand upon this success, we have recommitted ourselves to discover new theatrical voices through the Colorado New Play Summit. Held each February, the Summit convenes some of the nation’s brightest writers, directors, actors and critics to hear the readings of commissioned plays and works in development and to see fully-staged world premieres.
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Photo caption: (l-r) Angela Pierce as Lucienne Homenides de Histangua and Douglas Harmsen as Camille Chandebise in Kent Thompson's Denver Center Theatre Company directoral debut of A Flea in Her Ear. Photo by Terry Shapiro