The origins of the board game MONOPOLY could come in handy for a trivia game night – or even while playing MONOPOLY LIFESIZED: Travel Edition sometime soon. The very first version of MONOPOLY was created by Elizabeth Magie Phillips, based on her political and feminist views. In 1903, she filed a patent for her “Landlord’s Game.” […]
The Denver Center Theatre Company is excited to announce the full casting and creative team for the world premiere production of The Reservoir by Jake Brasch (our tempest, How to Draw a Triangle). The Reservoir will launch a co-production in Denver on January 17, 2025, and then transfer to Atlanta where it will start performances […]
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 […]
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‘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.
The year is 1857. The locale is a boardinghouse on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It’s a homey dwelling, run by an upstanding middle-aged couple. But behind its unremarkable façade lies a den of activists engaged in the fight for women’s suffrage — in an America where only men of property have the right […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Picture this: your family is gathered around the kitchen table, everyone dressed in cozy sweaters, sipping hot chocolate, and Mariah Carey is softly playing in the background. At the center of the table is a MONOPOLY board, silver tokens glinting on the tiles, and piles of colorful MONOPOLY money scattered around. Now…is your family smiling […]