On the cusp of retiring, Deborah Jordy sits on her patio at her Cherry Creek home speaking with devotion and no small about of poetry about a favorite topic. The executive director of the SCFD, one of the nation’s most innovative and consequential local sources of arts and culture funding —the seven-county Scientific and Cultural […]
There’s more to the Denver Performing Arts Complex than just stunning performances, and taking a tour showcases the wonder that makes theatre so great. When the former Auditorium Theatre at 14th & Curtis streets opened in 1908, it started with a bang. Or more specifically, an epic snowball fight. In a push to impress the […]
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 season, the Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC) produced nine plays all of which were written by men. In fact, in […]
Longtime theatregoers may have noticed a growing trend in the industry of late — multi-theatre co-productions. But what exactly are they? And are they here to stay? On its face, a co-production is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a show that takes the stage as part of a partnership between two or more theatres, […]
The last among hundreds of plays Daniel L. Ritchie ever saw could not have been more perfectly chosen. On the day before Thanksgiving, the Denver business titan sat among giggling children watching a Theatre for Young Audiences performance of Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” at the Denver Center’s Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre. […]
In 2024, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts published its five-year strategic plan, which set a course for the organization through its 2028/29 season. Among the goals was to modernize the organization’s use of technology to advance audience and donor relations. One major part of this goal was to implement a new ticketing system […]
Strangely enough, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts can trace its roots as far back as the booming Gold Rush era of the late 1800s when a man by the name of Frederick Bonfils and his partner bought one of a dozen “scandal sheets” of the day — The Denver Post. Bonfils turned that […]
When immersed in a live performance it’s easy to get swept away in the story and characters, forgetting sometimes you’re watching actors on a stage at all. It’s okay to be transported, but on the casting side, it took a lot of work to get there. Every single show produced at the Denver Center for […]
Let’s set the stage. It’s opening night in the Buell Theatre. Two thousand eight hundred people are taking their seats to see the next big Broadway hit. And then it happens. Heads swivel. Crowds part. Whispers of “Who is that?” begin. Enter Judi Wolf, stage right. Opening night after opening night the same reaction occurs. […]
Today the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) named Angela Lakin as its Vice President of Marketing & Sales. Angela will oversee an 82-person team that manages all marketing, sales and patron services for the $70 million nonprofit organization, which engages 703,000 individuals including 100,000 students through its six pillars — Broadway, Theatre Company, […]