Susan Hilferty, Tony Award-winner for Best Costume Design of Wicked Reprinted by permission of Wicked How did you approach the task of designing Wicked’s costumes? Susan Hilferty: I knew I was inventing a world, a parallel universe you’d recognize but at the same time was completely distorted. I looked at the original illustrations for the […]
Stephen Schwartz, Composer/Lyricist for Wicked Reprinted by permission of Wicked How long did it take you to bring Wicked to life? Stephen Schwartz: We actually were working on the show about four years, which is pretty fast for a big Broadway musical…. Once I had heard about [Wicked] from [my friend] Holly Near, it took […]
Q&A with Eugene Lee, Tony Award-winner for Best Set Design for Wicked and Edward Pierce, Associate Set Designer Reprinted by permission of Wicked What were some of your difficulties at the beginning in designing the set? Eugene Lee: The script for Wicked is like a movie script – it jumps around a lot. I determined […]
Gregory Maguire, Author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Reprinted by permission of Wicked What inspired you to write “Wicked”? Gregory Maguire: I was living in London in the early 1990’s during the start of the Gulf War. I was interested to see how my own blood temperature […]
When Disney Theatrical Group decided to adapt the animated film Frozen for the Broadway stage, they enlisted a team with more than just stellar theatrical bona fides. Not only do they have a collective 16 Tony Awards®, but they also have art and design in their bones. When it came time to design the sets […]
Two months into the pandemic, in May of 2020, I began reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. The book traces 70,000 years of human development, beginning with the dawn of modern cognition, to the development of nomadic societies, the advent of agriculture, to the building of ancient empires, and finally, inevitably, the creation […]
Hailed as “a genuinely epic production” by The New York Times (original New York run), The Lehman Trilogy follows three German-Jewish immigrant brothers, and their descendants, as they navigate fire, flood, war, and panic to build a financial behemoth that changed America. Take a look at some of the production photos below.
Nine-year-old Bee Quijada sits in a suburban classroom. During a history lesson on Rosa Parks, she asks, “Where did Latinos sit on the bus?” What follows is a theatrical mixtape of Bee’s life. It’s a one-person show that immerses the audience in elaborate, layered soundscapes by fusing Latin rhythms, hip-hop, and spoken word poetry. And it’s […]
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) Off-Center and Realscape Productions, in partnership with UK-based creators of innovative immersive experiences, DARKFIELD, are proud to announce Denver as the US tour launch of the multisensory series DARKFIELD, featuring SÉANCE, FLIGHT and COMA, from July 11 – August 11 in the city’s River North (RiNo) Art […]
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is proud to announce ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S “WE ARE IN A PLAY!” as the fall Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) musical, based on the popular children’s book series by Mo Willems. DCPA will stage 110 student matinee and public performances of this heartwarming musical tailored for Pre-K […]