Mary Louise Lee dedicates ‘Lady Day’ to Jeffrey Nickelson
The Denver First Lady considers her haunting portrayal of Billie Holiday in 2002 to be her most meaningful performance.
Study: Denver metro arts generate $1.8 billion in economic activity
Arts, science and cultural organizations injected a half a billion new dollars into the regional economy last year.
The Year of Gunderson has begun in Colorado
‘The Book of Will’ author is officially the most-produced playwright in America this season.
My interview with Edward Albee: ‘I want people to imagine the unimaginable’
‘America’s greatest living playwright’ was prickly, charming and unapologetic when it came to challenging societal taboos.
The guns come out in Moore’s ‘Waiting for Obama’
DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore has written a play that will be performed at the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival. Here’s his Q&A…
Former hostage Thomas Sutherland is freed a second time
The former Beirut hostage, who made his first foray into acting at age 75, died this morning in Fort Collins.
In Ashland, turning rage into action
A racial incident has the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the residents of Ashland confronting difficult questions about race.
Matthew Lopez among Perry-Mansfield featured playwrights
The 19th Annual New Works Festival June 10-11 will develop five new plays from the DCPA, Actors Theatre of Louisville and others.
Judi Wolf: A woman for all costumes
The DCPA Trustee has sponsored the Costume Corner column in Applause magazine for the past five years because she believes the costume arts must be…
A look back at Denver’s Great, Rowdy White Way
Thomas Edison once called it the brightest street in America. Not Broadway: Denver’s Curtis Street.