A Guide to Finding Your Perfect View One of the most common questions the DCPA Box Office receives is also one of the hardest to answer: “What’s the best seat?” The truth is, there isn’t just one answer. The best seat depends on the performance, the venue, your budget, and the kind of experience you’re looking for. A front-row seat at a Broadway musical […]
Denver’s Unmistakable Leading Lady On countless opening nights across decades of Denver’s theatrical history, there was always a flutter of excitement just before the curtain rose. A collective breath. A whisper rippling from seat to seat: “She’s here.” And then, like a scene choreographed by the universe itself, Judi Wolf would glide into view […]
“1900s Sweden, the middle of summer, the sun never sets, and everyone is falling in love…but not always with the right person,” says Chris Coleman, Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre Company and Director of the 2023/24 season opener A Little Night Music. The beloved Stephen Sondheim musical will open September 1 in the […]
Strong. Ambitious. Fearless. Badass. Those are just some of the words used to describe the Colorado Western woman, Kate McHale Slaughterback—famously known as “Rattlesnake Kate.” When Composer Neyla Pekarek ventured to the Greeley Museum while in school at the University of Northern Colorado, she did not expect to be captured by the story of how […]
By Joanne Ostrow Imagine the audience’s shock in 1962 when Edward Albee’s first full-length play had its Broadway debut: On the set of a bland living room, the crude baiting and vicious game-playing of a middle-aged married couple unfolds like a prizefight. The devastating language, brutal wit and merciless puncturing of illusions— it was […]