As the president of the Museum of American Finance, David Cowen is an expert on the American Financial system. The same financial system created by Alexander Hamilton. A portrait of Hamilton hangs above the desk in David’s office. We caught up with David to discuss what exactly some of the lyrics mean and which traces […]
Since our inception in 1979, the DCPA Theatre Company has been committed to new works. In fact, our very first season included the world premiere of Passing Game by Steve Tesich. By our 1982/83 season we had held our first public reading of a work in development — A Beautiful World by David Jones. Our […]
The history of Hamilton seems unlikely at best, maybe as unlikely as a budding nation, making a go of it in a new world. Actor, composer and producer Lin-Manuel Miranda was on vacation in Mexico in 2008, in a hammock, relaxing. He picked up a little “light reading” — the 800-page historical biography, Alexander Hamilton, […]
If you are a podcast fan, you know a great podcast when you hear it, right? Or audiobook, video game, or even that voice telling you to get on the RTD Train before the doors close. A good voice over is, well, good. A great voice over is one you tell your friends about. A […]
Charlie Miller has always been a young man ahead of his time. After all, he played both Fagin and Captain Von Trapp by the age of 17. Not so many years later, the co-founder and curator of Off-Center at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts is regarded as a national thought leader in the […]
Every year, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts hosts the Colorado New Play Summit, featuring new play readings and attracting theatre industry leaders and artists. Launch Weekend showcases stripped-down readings of plays in development, so the playwright, director, and audience can focus entirely on the story. After receiving audience feedback, the productions spend the […]
While actor Gregory Treco is originally from the Bahamas, he spent some time in a colder climate when he attended Eaglecrest High School in Aurora, Colorado. Before Treco appeared on Broadway in Hamilton, he appeared in the DCPA Theatre Company’s 2015 world premiere of The 12. When in town, he sat down with Arts Journalist […]
Adapted from Inside Out | Lynde Rosario, Editor and Reginald Edmund, Contributing Writer Set in 1974, In the Upper Room tells the story of a multi-generational black family led by the family’s controlling and secretive matriarch, Rose Berry. But to understand the Berry family requires understanding the 1970s as well as the many pop culture […]
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is proud to announce the winning plays as part of its annual High School and Middle School Playwriting Competition, which has impacted more than 25,000 students since its inception in 2013. The DCPA’s Education & Community Engagement Department launched the playwriting program to spark interest in the […]