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Art Deco–style infographic titled From Silent Films to Singin’ in the Rain showing a timeline of film history from 1895 to 1952. The graphic highlights the silent film era (1895–1931), the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927 as the first commercially successful feature film with synchronized dialogue, the transition period when silent films and talkies coexisted (1927–1931), and the effective end of the silent era in 1931. A separate marker shows that the story of Singin’ in the Rain is set in 1927–1928, while the film was written in 1950–1951, filmed in 1951, and premiered in 1952. Decorative film, microphone, spotlight, and movie-themed icons appear throughout the blue-and-gold design.

Spanning the Eras

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Staging a play set in the 1950s that’s about a film set in the 1920s   In 1951, as the classic movie musical An American in Paris was being released, director Stanley Donen and star Gene Kelly came together for a new film, now frequently named as the greatest movie musical of all time: Singin’ […]

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Scale model rendering of a stage set for Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus featuring a colorful cartoon-style city park. Painted flats depict green trees, blue sky, clouds, and a city skyline with mountains in the background. White architectural elements frame the center stage area, while two miniature figure models stand on a curved green-and-tan playing space in the foreground. The model is displayed inside a dark wooden presentation box.Denver Center Theatre Company

How Does a Pigeon Drive a Bus?

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This fall, thousands of eager children will file into the Weeks Conservatory Theatre for the DCPA’s Theatre for Young Audiences program. After having served more than 210,000 PreK through third grade children in its first eight years, this season’s TYA production will delight a new flock of theatregoers with Mo Willems’ beloved children’s book, Don’t […]

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A set model of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof showing a bedroom in a Southern plantation with a bed, vanity, chaise lounge, rug, various chairs, and openings into a hallway and onto a veranda.©Denver Center for the Performing Arts

34-Year DCTC Veteran, Lisa Orzolek, Discusses Scenic Design and Problem Solving

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When Lisa Orzolek first began working as the second scenic assistant at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in 1992, the Theatre Company was producing The Grapes of Wrath based on John Steinbeck’s novel about the Joads of Oklahoma, forced to migrate west by a convergence of Depression Era economics and environmentally wrought disaster.  […]

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