Favorite Characters Onstage in 2025

A new year and new (familiar) faces. The DCPA is ushering in 2025 with plenty of fan-favorites, sure to bring some beloved characters to the stage. Check this list below to see who will be walking in from stage right in the coming months. Doc Brown & Marty McFly These two characters are synonymous with […]

Puppeteers Bring Animals to Life in Life of Pi

The life of Pi has been long and fruitful, although full of challenges for the title character. The peregrinations of Piscine Molitor Patel began with the best-selling 2001 novel by Canadian author Yann Martel, continuing 11 years later with the Ang Lee film, which won four Academy Awards. In 2023, it moved to Broadway in […]

It’s About Time: Back to the Future‘s Connection to Boulder, Colorado

One of the key plot twists in Back to the Future involves the Hill Valley Court House clock tower. In the year 1955, time would have been measured in this clock tower by Earth’s position in relation to the sun, moon and the heavens. The time on every clock in the world was based on […]

Get in the Time Machine to Explore 1955 and 1985 Denver

Have you ever fantasized about going back in time, just like Marty McFly does in Back to the Future? Were things simpler back in the day or pretty similar? Imagine if you could get in a time machine to see Denver in 1955 and 1985 — what might you see in the Mile High City? […]

DCPA Transitions to New Ticketing Provider

In 2024, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts published its five-year strategic plan, which set a course for the organization through its 2028/29 season. Among the goals was to modernize the organization’s use of technology to advance audience and donor relations. One major part of this goal was to implement a new ticketing system […]

NARUTO The Symphonic Experience Comes to the Ellie April 1

For the First Time Ever, Audiences in More Than 60 Cities Will See a Live Orchestra Perform the Most Iconic Songs and Themes from the NARUTO Animated Series, Live-to-Picture, as Scenes Play Out on a Full-Size Cinema Screen Denvercenter.org is the only official ticketing source for the April 1 Denver engagement. GEA Live, Un Pour […]

Funny Girl: Creation of a Musical

Funny Girl‘s highly anticipated return to Broadway took place in 2022, with Beanie Feldstein starring as Fanny Brice. Take a look at these videos from the Funny Girl rehearsal room and stage; watch the creation of a musical, from running lines to a sitzprobe in action.

Who Was the Original Fanny Brice?

When imagining the iconic Funny Girl star, wearing a long red coat and black feathered hat, belting out “Don’t Rain On My Parade,” you likely envision Barbra Streisand who originated the role of Fanny Brice on Broadway in 1964 as well as the 1968 film version. There is a perception of Fanny Brice based on […]

The Future on Film

Hoverboards, it must be said, have not lived up to their promise. They still touch the ground, for starters, and then there’s the minor matter of them exploding without warning. All in all, though, the Back to the Future franchise has had a pretty good track record when it comes to predicting the future of […]

The Funny Thing About Show Business

Funny Girl is the beloved, fictionalized story of Fanny Brice, a comedic actress who rose to fame performing with the Ziegfield’s Follies revue. Brice was married and divorced three times in her life, notably to Nick Arnstein, a convicted conman whose trial was front page news at the time. Her rise in the entertainment industry and […]