Colorful graphic design with the word 'ENGLISH' in bold purple letters on a green background with abstract shapes, pink stars, and a black and white illustration of a chair and desk in the top left corner. 'ENGLISH' is also written in Arabic script below the English text.

DCTC Announces Full Cast and Creative Teams for English and Somewhere

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The Denver Center Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the full cast and creative teams for the final two productions of the 2025/26 Theatre Company Season: English by Sanaz Toossi (TIME magazine’s TIME 100, Wish You Were Here) and Somewhere by Matthew López (The Legend of Georgia McBride, “Red, White, and Royal Blue”). Performances for English and Somewhere will begin in the Spring.  OFFICIAL TICKETS: Visit the English or Somewhere show detail pages  for verified […]

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A Big Stage for Big Emotions in Next to Normal

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Director Nancy Keystone Brings Denver Center Theatre Company’s Next to Normal to the Wolf Theatre There are many things in life that we want to be normal. Morning commutes. Dental exams. Parents when they first meet our significant others. But there are also certain contexts where we like to be surprised — the theatre being […]

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The (Emergent) Play’s Still the Thing

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The Colorado New Play Summit at 20 What follows is an anecdote — “as told to” but hardly apocryphal. During the recently concluded Colorado New Play Summit, a group of theater-fond women, who had walked from their towering apartment building on 15th street to the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex, expressed their concern about the annual […]

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Denver Center Theatre Company Announces Full Cast and Creative Team for Rock Musical, Next to Normal

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DCTC announces cast and creative team for the Tony Award-winning rock musical, Next to Normal, opening in Spring 2026. OFFICIAL TICKETS: Visit the Next to Normal show detail page for verified tickets, seat maps, and pricing. “What moves me most about Next to Normal is its unflinching honesty. This musical invites us to confront the complexities of mental […]

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The Best Ways to Relax Before an Audition or Interview

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From deep breaths and nutrient-dense food to arriving on time, these five tips can make that next audition or interview go smoothly.   It’s completely normal to be nervous before an audition or interview, but you don’t have to let that control the situation. In fact, calming the nerves before the big event helps tremendously, […]

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Denver Fencing and Sword Fighting Classes for the Swashbuckler in You

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This article was originally published in 2024 and was updated in 2026.   Whether it’s William Shakespeare’s Hamlet or Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, period stories of love and revenge often feature sword fights, duels, and derring doo. Feeling like a swashbuckler, yourself? While DCPA Education regularly offers various classes in stage […]

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34-Year DCTC Veteran, Lisa Orzolek, Discusses Scenic Design and Problem Solving

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When Lisa Orzolek first began working as the second scenic assistant at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in 1992, the Theatre Company was producing The Grapes of Wrath based on John Steinbeck’s novel about the Joads of Oklahoma, forced to migrate west by a convergence of Depression Era economics and environmentally wrought disaster.  […]

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All the World’s Our Stage

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Impact of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Development In its inaugural season, the DCPA’s Theatre Company offered a five-play season including its first-ever world premiere, Passing Game by Steve Tesich. By season five, the Company’s commitment to new play development was formalized with a festival of public readings lasting 15 seasons. In 2005/06, […]

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The Historical Setting of Godspeed

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POST- CIVIL WAR In 1865 Texas, chaos prevailed. The Civil War ended on April 9 of that year, but the news spread sporadically and in much of the state, enslaved Black people didn’t learn they were free until June 19, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger proclaimed it upon landing in Galveston. Although Black people were […]

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