With his wavy white hair, his dapper blue-gray suit and gold-rimmed eyeglasses, the nonagenarian did not look a day over 80. Standing at a podium at a 2019 Ted Talk, 99-year-old Eddie Jaku looked out at the audience before he began recounting his experiences of Kristallnacht and the five concentration camps he survived. “My dear […]
Tennessee Williams might not be the biggest daddy in American theater — there is Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, August Wilson — but the Mississippi-born playwright comes awfully close. His early plays became a string of Broadway hits: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, and Night […]
DCPA Tickets for 35 Shows Now on Sale Tickets available for most shows including The Phantom of the Opera, The Outsiders, and Next to Normal DENVER — The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) announces today that tickets for most titles for its 2025/26 season programming are now on sale to the public. […]
This season, no fewer than 16 productions on Denver Center stages are based on or inspired by literature. From children’s books and memoirs to Greek myths and fantasy, here is your reading companion to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ 2025/26 season alphabetized by show title. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (playing […]
When you consider the greatest acting couples of all time, you think of Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks (Sleepless in Seattle), Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (Swing Time), Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca), Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable (Gone With the Wind), Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (“I Love Lucy”), Carrie Fisher and Harrison […]
If you’re an avid television viewer, you can often point out reused locations. For instance, University High School in Los Angeles has been used as a location for “Arrested Development,” “7th Heaven,” “Lizzie McGuire,” “My So-Called Life,” and “Even Stevens.” And these are big budget productions that typically have money to burn. When it comes […]
On May 1, the American Theatre Wing announced the 2025 Tony Award nominees. Two Denver-bound shows, two actors, and four designers were among those singled out for recognition. ENGLISH by Sanaz Toosi Nominated for Best Play Additional Nominations: Tala Ashe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role/Play Marjan Neshat for Best Performance […]
Theatre job titles are often self-explanatory. Actors act. Playwrights write plays. Costume designers, surprise surprise, design costumes. By these standards, the title of dramaturg is downright cryptic. So I reached out to Martine Kei Green-Rogers, dramaturg for the Denver Center Theatre Company production of The Hot Wing King, to gain some more insight into dramaturgy […]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Next to Normal among titles in 2025/26 Denver Center Theatre Company Season Denver Center Theatre Company Artistic Director Chris Coleman is proud to announce the 2025/26 season for the regional producing theatre arm of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA). The new Theatre Company season kicks […]
Horror comedies are like Hawaiian pizza: they combine two elements that, on paper, should never work together. Ham and pineapple seem destined to clash, but there’s something about the pizza format that turns the meat-fruit combo into something greater than the sum of its parts. The same goes for the onstage horror comedy; except in […]