SIX Cocktails Made for a Queen

I If SIX has you in the mood to…lose your head, a specialty cocktail (or mocktail) might be just the ticket. Long-time partner of the Denver Performing Arts Complex, SODEXO Live! has created a list of drinks to complement your evening. Patrons can order these drinks at the bars inside the Buell Theatre when attending […]

English and Irish Pubs Have Many Similarities to Western Saloons

From the archives: this post was originally published in 2021. People have been buying alcoholic drinks in England for more than a thousand years in taverns, ale houses, coaching inns, and grog shops – but what we think of today as a typical English pub didn’t happen until 1830. To counter distilled spirits imported from […]

Trivia: Dirty Dancing

If you were a teenager in 1987, you remember Dirty Dancing. The trailer depicted it as a typical romance — naïve girl falls for the “bad” boy. Parents disapprove. Love prevails. The end. So why is it that a movie about a dance instructor who refuses to “put Baby in the corner” was a runaway […]

Stake or Fake Game

  Get inspired to see Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (now through May 10, 2026) with a fun game of “Stake or Fake. How to Play: Pair your knowledge of Dracula with your funny bone, and guess whether the following statements are Stake (True) or Fake (False). Compete against your friends, and keep score or […]

Boosting Cognition with Memory Games

If genetics are any indication (fingers crossed), I will live a long, healthy life and have a better memory than my children. After all, my mom is 95 (96 next month. Happy birthday, Mom!) and knocks the socks off most people with her mental acuity. When we visit a doctor’s office, the good ol’ doc […]

Meet the SIX Queens

Get to know the women behind the North American touring company of SIX. Click on one of the links below to meet each Queen.     DETAILS SIX Jan 7-11, 2026 • Buell Theatre Tickets  

CU Experience Gallery Hosts DCPA Theatre Company Costume Designers in Free Exhibit

This article was originally posted in 2022 and updated in December 2025.   Their resumes look like a “Best Plays” list: The Book of Will, The Glass Menagerie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lord of the Flies, One Night in Miami, Smokey Joe’s Café, Titus Andronicus, Tantalus, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Whale, Who’s Afraid […]

Denver Center Theatre Company Announces Full Cast and Creative Teams for World Premieres, Cowboys and East Indians and Godspeed

The Denver Center Theatre Company is excited to announce the full casting and creative teams for the world premiere productions of Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley and Matthew Spangler, and Godspeed by Terence Anthony. Both world premiere productions were first introduced to audiences as readings at the 2024 Colorado New Play Summit.  “Each […]

Breaking Into the Biz

Are you a budding performer waiting for your breakout role? Do you feel a bit like Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, fiercely determined but constantly turned down? Don’t let that rain on your parade! Take these tips from Grady Soapes, Director of Casting with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), to help you […]

The Heart of Denver’s Black Culture: Five Points

From the archives: this article was originally published on January 12, 2023 If Denver’s Black culture has a heart, it is beating loud and strong in Five Points. Located at the intersection of 26th Avenue, 27th Street, Washington Street and Welton Street — four roads that create five vertices — is what was once known […]