In His Own Words: Artistic Director Chris Coleman

The Denver Center Theatre Company is thrilled to bring you another season of shows where stories sweep you away. You’re going to go to a deserted island in the Mediterranean, to the streets of Dublin, to a tiny village in Mexico. It is a really exciting, interesting mix.

Fall

We are starting off in the fall with Destiny of Desire by Karen Zacarías. This show takes you on a wild roller coaster ride that proves why the telenovela is the most popular form of entertainment on the planet.

Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest, is shot through with music, magic, comedy, and romance. It’s a bittersweet cocktail.

And then for the holidays, we’ll bring you our tradition of Charles Dickens, beloved A Christmas Carol filled with music and dancing. A little bit of redemption, maybe some scary ghosts. Come, bring your whole family.

Winter

And then in the winter, the 21st annual Colorado New Play Summit, a weekend filled with hearing stories that are just coming to life.

And then two world premieres that grew out of the 2025 Colorado New Play Summit. bogfriends by jose sebastian alberdi, which is about six different souls woven together over 4,000 years. And then How to Conquer America: A Mostly True History of Yogurt, which is a story about how to find success without selling your soul with a little bit of dairy added in.

Spring

Once is a haunting, love filled, achingly quiet story that feels different from any of the musicals that we’ve brought to you in the last couple years and then in the Singleton Theater — And So We Walked written and performed by DeLanna Studi. DeLanna is a Cherokee actor and artist who dreamed up the idea of retracing her ancestors’ steps along the Trail of Tears, and she performs this really powerful, intimate memoir by herself.

The final show of the season is in the Kilstrom Theatre. Dial M for Murder, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the original by Frederick Knott and inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock film. If The 39 Steps was Hitchcock as farce, this is Hitchcock as straight-up thriller. It is an edge-of-your-seat drama.

In a world that is so dominated by screens and AI, it feels more and more important that we gather and feel what the person next to us is experiencing. The power of it is sharing the story together. You complete the work that we do. None of it matters unless you show up. So whether you’ve been coming since 1979 or you just considering it for the first time, I would love for you to come join us.

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