Tag Archive for: The Lion King

A Reading Companion to the DCPA’s 2025/26 Season

This season, no fewer than 16 productions on Denver Center stages are based on or inspired by literature. From children’s books and memoirs to Greek myths and fantasy, here is your reading companion to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ 2025/26 season alphabetized by show title.   CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (playing […]

The Lion King Kids’ Corner

As one of the most beloved films and musicals of all times, Disney’s The Lion King has charmed the child in all of us.

10 Fun Facts about Disney’s The Lion King

With more than 70 global theatre awards, The Lion King is a theatrical masterpiece. Here are 10 Fun Facts that make this one of the longest running and most successful musicals of all time.

Masks Make the Story in Disney’s The Lion King

Long before masks were ever considered “personal protective equipment,” they were functional works of art. In Africa, for instance, they are meant to be used and serve ceremonial purposes: Accepting a boy into manhood, exorcising evil spirits, capturing invisible supernatural forces and…to tell stories.