Finding Focus Through Classic Theatre Techniques

  It takes a lot of concentration to do live performances, and there are plenty of skills we can take home from those practices.   Stop, breathe, crack your neck, now focus. Paying attention and focusing on another person, a task, an event, or even yourself is not always a natural reaction, or as simple […]

Discussion Guide: The Happiest Man on Earth

Based on The New York Times best-selling memoir by Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth tells a remarkable story of survival, revealing a paradox of joy built on a foundation of grief. This Denver Center Theatre Company production is playing September 19 through November 2, 2025 in the Singleton Theatre.     Character and Identity How […]

Cast and Creative Teams for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Happiest Man on Earth Announced

The Denver Center Theatre Company is excited to announce the full casting and creative teams for the two productions leading the 2025/26 Theatre Company season, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams and directed by Chris Coleman and The Happiest Man on Earth adapted by Mark St. Germain and directed by Ron Lagomarsino. […]

2025/26 Plays on Stage Along Colorado’s Front Range

In addition to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ 35 plays and musicals, the 2025/26 theatre season offers a plethora of options on stages along Colorado’s Front Range. Mark these on your calendar and be sure to support local theatre.   SEPTEMBER 2025   Eureka Day Curious Theatre Company, Sep. 4-Oct. 5 Artists have […]

Between the Rails

What is Third Rail Projects and Why Should Denver Audiences Care? Once upon a heady time, I walked over the third rail of the New York City subway. Donning a cocktail dress and heels, fueled by the kind of immortal delirium only your twenties can afford, I casually placed one foot after the other across […]

2025/26 Musical Theatre Preview Along Colorado’s Front Range

  Dim the lights. Unwrap that piece of candy. Cue the overture. Yes, fellow aisle-anders (okay, we’re working on that), the 2025/26 season is upon us with no shortage of musicals and plays that aim to please or perturb — sometimes both — and all the other feels. And as is the way with art […]

Robert Petkoff: Murder, Madness, and Moulin Rouge!

  The national tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical! is a bit of a homecoming for actor Robert Petkoff, or at least that’s what we at the Denver Center like to think. After all, his first play in Denver was the granddaddy of theatre — Tantalus — the 10-part, nine-hour play recounting the Trojan War. […]

Bringing the Story to Life

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical was originally commissioned by and produced at The Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a theater recognized as North America’s flagship theatre for young people and families. The Grinch made his debut on the CTC stage in November of 1994, after special arrangements had been made […]

From Antique to Vintage: Broadway Promises a Blast from the Past

Once upon a time in the not-too-distant past, a stretch along Broadway was called Antique Row. Spanning seven long blocks from 1100 to 1800 Broadway, the area boasted more than 100 antique and novelty stores. Antique Row is now something of an artifact itself having been largely displaced by new development and replaced by trendier […]

Cirque du Soliel ECHO: We are the Architects of Our World

  It took some doing and a leap of faith, but, finally, Cirque du Soliel chose to make its Denver debut in 1995 with Saltimbanco. But what’s a little showbiz without a lot of risk? The company which formed in 1982 from a talented bunch of street performers had two things in common. Vision and […]