Seawell celebration: He lived the life he imagined
Monday’s farewell to DCPA founder Donald R. Seawell was not so much the end of an era as a homecoming.
Featured playwrights named for 2016 Colorado New Play Summit
José Cruz González, Lauren Gunderson, Tira Palmquist and Mat Smart will have their plays developed and presented as readings.
Don Seawell: A ‘singular vision’ to build the DCPA for Denver
The founder who built the largest non-profit theatre organization in America has died at age 103
‘The Legend of Georgia McBride’ charms New York critics
Charles Isherwood of The New York Times praised Matthew Lopez’s heartfelt comedy as “first-rate” and called the direction “totally flawless.”
Annaleigh Ashford brings a Tony Award home to Colorado
“I can’t believe I am standing here on the Radio City Music Hall stage for the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway.”
Largest metro arts organizations offer major concession for good of SCFD
The region’s largest cultural institutions would voluntarily give up about 5.78 percent of their share of the annual art-tax pie. “It’s the right thing to…
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…
Kent Haruf: The complete final interview
In his final interview, with the DCPA’s John Moore, Kent Haruf said of his new book: “In some ways it felt as if it was…
Kent Haruf, Author of ‘Plainsong’ Trilogy, Dies at Age 71
Kent Haruf, who authored “The Plainsong Trilogy” brought to the stge by the DCPA, died Sunday morning of lung disease. He gave his final interview…
Colorado New Play Summit expands to two weekends; playwrights announced for 2015
2015 lineup will include works by Theresa Rebeck, Tanya Saracho, Catherine Trieschmann and Jason Gray Platt.