Meet Denver’s legendary ‘Phantom Phan’
Octogenerian is nearing 200 performances of Webber’s masterpiece over 31 years
Alicia Keyes’ Celebration of Place
Hell’s Kitchen shares a very different west side story A city. A neighborhood. A building. These are the geographies that feed 17-year-old Ali, our guide in Alicia Keyes’ Hell’s Kitchen, book by Kristoffer Diaz. Hell’s Kitchen is the piquant —and for decades, the rightly earned — name of the West Side Manhattan neighborhood where Ali […]
From the Archives: Recreating The Phantom
by Hal Prince The following article by director Harold Prince (1928-2019) was published in Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Applause magazine in November 1991 for the first Broadway engagement in the newly opened Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre — The Phantom of the Opera. It is republished here to commemorate the 35th anniversary of that […]
From Basketball to Broadway: Denver’s Buell Theatre Celebrates 35 Years
35 years after being the first Broadway show to christen the Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre, The Phantom of the Opera returns It started out as an addition to the 1908 Denver Municipal Auditorium and became the highest grossing theatre of its size in the nation. The former Denver Auditorium Arena (1940-1989) was added adjacent […]
Local Legends of the Pit: Jim Harvey and Art Bouton on Returning to The Phantom of the Opera
Local musicians are tapped to step into the orchestra pits of Broadway shows as they tour across the country. A Denver Orchestra With Deep Roots Most national Broadway tours travel with only a small core of musicians; the remaining artists are hired locally. It is a model built on trust — trust that a city will […]
Refreshed Legacy: The Phantom of the Opera
35 Years After Opening Denver’s Buell Theatre, The Phantom of the Opera Returns in an All-New Production Maybe you saw the original performance on Broadway. Maybe you heard the music on a cassette or CD or through streaming — ripped a track to a mixtape or playlist to sing along to in your car. Or […]
Denver Fencing and Sword Fighting Classes for the Swashbuckler in You
This article was originally published in 2024 and was updated in 2026. Whether it’s William Shakespeare’s Hamlet or Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, period stories of love and revenge often feature sword fights, duels, and derring doo. Feeling like a swashbuckler, yourself? While DCPA Education regularly offers various classes in stage […]
Rock Opera Revival: The Who’s TOMMY Comes to Denver in a Dazzling New Production
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is thrilled to welcome a bold new production of the legendary rock opera The Who’s TOMMY playing Oct. 16–18, 2026 in the Buell Theatre at 14th & Curtis in downtown Denver. Fresh from Broadway, this high‑voltage revival brings renewed energy, emotional depth, and theatrical spectacle to one of […]
Cameron Mackintosh on the bathtub birth of The Phantom of the Opera
The famous chandelier has been made even more spectacular for new North American production .
Beyond the Script: Denver Public Library’s Guide to Water for Elephants
Denver Public Library resources to enhance your experience at Water for Elephants READ The Ordinary Acrobat: A Journey Into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present by Duncan Wall Duncan Wall was an American Fulbright scholar in France when he decided to enroll in the École Nationale des Arts du Cirque, a […]