Promotional artwork for Destiny of Desire featuring the title in purple and pink lettering alongside a collage of three black-and-white portrait images accented with vivid pink flowers and scattered flower petals. The composition uses bright magenta and purple tones against a textured light background.

5 Things to Know Before the Show: Destiny of Desire

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Karen Zacarías’ fast-paced comedy blends outrageous melodrama with surprising heart.   Bring your appetite for drama If you’ve never watched a telenovela, think soap opera turned up to 11. Secret identities. Switched babies. Love triangles. Family feuds. Sudden reversals. Shocking revelations.  Playwright Karen Zacarías doesn’t just tell a telenovela story. She celebrates every convention of the genre while inviting audiences to laugh along with […]

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Zacarías Returns with Destiny of Desire

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Delivering guilty pleasures smartly If as many as two billion people watch telenovelas, or a regional version of the episodic melodramas, as some reports suggest, then it can’t come as a surprise that so many of us have a story about, well, our “stories.” “My stories” — that’s how the beauticians on the Kearney Street […]

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Promotional graphic for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company 2026/2027 season. The design features the Theatre Company logo above the text “2026/2027 Season” and the tagline “Where Stories Come Alive” in large teal lettering. The background has a textured off-white appearance with teal and gold paint-like accents and graphic elements around the edges.

2026/27 Denver Center Theatre Company Overview

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In His Own Words: Artistic Director Chris Coleman   The Denver Center Theatre Company is thrilled to bring you another season of shows where stories sweep you away. You’re going to go to a deserted island in the Mediterranean, to the streets of Dublin, to a tiny village in Mexico. It is a really exciting, […]

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Celebrating Colorado’s 150th Birthday

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How the Shade of Some Cottonwoods and a Barrel of “Taos Lightning” Whiskey, Led to the Founding of Denver, Colorado   Since the Helen G. Bonfils Theatre Complex opened in 1979, millions of patrons have stood on its balcony, or before the huge windows in the Seawell Ballroom, or under the glass-canopied pedestrian walkway called […]

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Beetlejuice Illusionist Michael Weber Puts the “Super” in Supernatural

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  Bringing Beetlejuice to the stage was never going to be a simple task. Fans of Tim Burton’s 1988 comedy-horror film are legion, and devoted to the work of the visionary artist and director. So when director Alex Timbers assembled his design team for the Broadway musical, he brought in some heavy hitters, including six-time […]

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DCPA Announces New Board Leadership and Trustees

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Following its recent June Board of Trustees meeting, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) announced changes to its board, including the election of a new Vice Chair, a fond farewell to two outgoing trustees, and the appointment of four new board members whose expertise spans arts administration, philanthropy, finance, law, healthcare research, and […]

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DCPA Tip: How to Select the Best Seat (Without Overthinking It)

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A Guide to Finding Your Perfect View  One of the most common questions the DCPA Box Office receives is also one of the hardest to answer:  “What’s the best seat?”  The truth is, there isn’t just one answer.  The best seat depends on the performance, the venue, your budget, and the kind of experience you’re looking for. A front-row seat at a Broadway musical […]

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Haunted Denver

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This article contains content that some may find distressing.   Denver has its share of haunted locations. From hotels to museums to parks, there’s a fright somewhere for everyone. Plus, the city is home to many nighttime walking tours that will teach you the history, legends, and lore of much of downtown Denver. You might even […]

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8 Well-Known Superstitions and their Meanings

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Unpacking the Origins of Everyday Superstitions As a trick in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice film, you have to say Beetlejuice’s name three times to make him appear. The Beetlejuice musical gives this classic film a Broadway makeover with crazy musical numbers, strong language, mature references and other behaviors from the well-known, inappropriately deranged demon. OFFICIAL TICKETS: […]

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Colorado’s Darkest Skies

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Best Places to Experience Colorado’s Dark Skies and Stargazing If you’re looking at the Colorado sky, it may be increasingly difficult to pick out the namesake of Beetlejuice. Betelgeuse, the tenth brightest star in the night sky and the second brightest star that is part of the Orion constellation. As humans have progressed from the […]

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