This week would have marked the launch of the DCPA Theatre Company’s 2020/21 Season. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, plans have changed but we’re still feeling all the nostalgia for the excitement that comes with launching a new season. So enjoy this small taste of our 40 years of season openers.

Melody Butiu, Glenn Morizio, Brian Lee Huynh in Vietgone. Photo by AdamsVisCom.

2018/19 Season
Vietgone
by Qui Nguyen
Original Music by Shane Rettig
Directed by Seema Sueko
Ricketson Theatre

Thaddeus Fitzpatrick, Kim Fischer, Joe Goldammer in Macbeth. Photo credit AdamsVisCom.

2017/18 Season
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Robert O’Hara
Grand reopening of The Space Theatre

Stephanie Martignetti, Cameron Adams, Jesmille Darbouze in The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Photo Credit Jennifer M. Koskinen

2014/15 Season
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Lyrics and Music by Meredith Willson
Additional Lyrics and Book by Dick Scanlan
Based on the Original Book by Richard Morris
Musical Adaptation By Michael Rafter
Music Director, Vocal and Incidental Arrangements by Michael Rafter
Directed and Choreographed by Kathleen Marshall
Stage Theatre

David Alan Anderson and Kim Staunton in Fences. Photo by Jennifer Koskinen

2012/13 Season
Fences
by August Wilson
Directed by Lou Bellamy
Space Theatre

Kathleen Brady in The Trip to Bountiful.

2008/09 Season
The Trip to Bountiful
by Horton Foote
Directed by Penny Metropulos
Space Theatre

The cast of Black Elk Speaks

1993/94 Season
Black Elk Speaks
By Christopher Sergel
Directed by Donovan Marley
Stage Theatre

The cast of Quilters.

1982/83 Season
Quilters (World Premiere)
By Molly Newman
Directed by Barbara Damascek
Space Theatre

Tony Cummings, Maury Cooper, Tandy Cronyn, and Tyne Daly in The Caucasian Chalk Circle

1979/80 Season (DCPA’s inaugural season)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Edward Payson Call
Stage Theatre