DPS Shakespeare Festival returns with DCPA as new partner
About 5,000 DPS students from kindergarten through high school will perform on 14 stages in and around the Denver Performing Arts Complex.
Actor Jonathan Crombie of ‘Benediction’ has died at 48
Jonathan Crombie suffered a brain hemorrhage, according to DCPA Producing Artistic Director Kent Thompson announced today.
Art and artist: Kevin Copenhaver tips his hats to Broadway's 'Doctor Zhivago'
Veteran DCPA Costume Crafts Designer Kevin Copenhaver has a style all his own. And Broadway audiences will see it starting next week in “Doctor Zhivago.”
Theresa Rebeck is not getting angry: She’s getting even
Theresa Rebeck wishes the topic of gender disparity in the American heater would go away. But for that to happen, gender disparity would have to…
DeVotchKa frontman promises a ‘Sweeney Todd’ that’s ‘loud and proud’
Local band DeVotchKa will adapt Stephen Sondheim’s classic “Sweeney Todd” score for a fresh new staging by the DCPA Theatre Company. Frontman Nick Urata promises…
Scott Shiller becomes second CEO in DCPA’s history: ‘Theatre is in my bones’
Shiller, who comes to Denver from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, replaces Daniel Ritchie, who remains as Chairman of the…
Part 6: Matthew Lopez’s 2015 Summit Soliloquy video
Matthew Lopez: “The reason the Colorado New Play Summit is so unique is for the sheer fact that it focuses almost all of its attention…
Part 5: Matthew Lopez on the evolving role of marketing in making art
As the DCPA’s Playwriting Fellow Matthew Lopez has developed a greater understanding of the role marketing plays in the creative process today.
NEA: Colorado ranks No. 1 in performing-arts visits
A new federal government survey ranks Colorado No. 1 in trips to theaters, concert halls and museums, according to a new study just released by…
Matthew Lopez, Part 4: ‘Peter Pan’ made Matthew Lopez cry – and fly – like a baby
Reaction to NBC’s nationally televised presentation of ‘Peter Pan Live!’ last month was mixed, but Matthew Lopez’s reaction was unequivocal: ‘I loved it,’ he said.