5 Tips to Unleash Your Creativity
Ignite your creative spirit with these tips to unlock your imagination and inner artist.
DPS Shakespeare Festival – To Be or Not to Be?
Denver Public Schools, DPS Foundation and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts declare “let there be a 37th annual Shakespeare Festival.” Not plague, nor pestilence, nor pandemic will interrupt the pleasure that more than 5,000 schoolchildren of all ages take in the country’s oldest and largest Shakespearean festival for youth.
Creativity: A Super Power
Remember when you were a kid and maybe ditched class a few too many times that it raised suspicion? So does Allison Watrous, Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. When her mom came to observe her in class at the teacher’s request, she “quickly found out that I was visiting the bathroom to sing in the acoustics at a full belt!”
Learn the Power of “Yes, and…” — 5 Tips to Improve your Improv
The wild, unexpected and keep-you-on-your-toes world of improv looks like fun, but is hard work. Jessica Austgen, a DCPA Education Teaching Artist and Artistic Director of the Denver Improv Festival has a tip or five to keep you alert, in the moment and engaged in the art of “Yes, and…”
Book Stars: Bringing stories to life in the classroom
Book Stars, part of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ (DCPA) larger Dramatic Learning program, provides in-school workshops designed to integrate theatre arts within the core curriculum.
Five reasons to enroll your child in a summer class
Every summer, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts welcomes children of all ages in their summer classes as part of the Robert and Judi Newman Summer Series. Aside from the obvious, “got to keep the kids busy this summer” feeling many parents have, acting classes are a wonderful way for children to try something new, stay active, and make new friends.
The unsung and unseen heroes of ‘Goodnight Moon’
There’s an entire team behind the curtain who have helped make the show magic for more than 40,000
Guest Column: ‘You Lost Me’ finds a home in the heart of a young playwright
Noah Jackson calls Bonnie Metzgar’s new play ‘a masterpiece of heartbreak, love, loss and being found’
Goodnight, moon: Hello to theatre for a lifetime
Theatre for Young Audiences production will introduce magic of live theatre to more than 40,000
DCPA Education names three student plays to be featured at Summit
The three winning scripts will be presented at next month’s Colorado New Play Summit