Playwrights have turned to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts to hone their craft since it opened in 1979 whether attending playwriting classes or submitting scripts for consideration. As the area and its cultural options have grown, it’s little wonder that other opportunities for aspiring writers have come onto the scene, namely Lighthouse Writers […]
Gutenberg! The Musical! – showing at the Garner Galleria Theatre through May 4 – is the meta spoof story of two playwrights auditioning a play about German inventor Johannes Gutenberg and his printing press, hoping to get a Broadway debut. Speaking of German inventors and inventions, we use numerous everyday inventions that you probably didn’t […]
Click here to see more Life of Pi interviews Provided by Life of Pi, Education & Resources Packet Team. By Susie Ferguson for Mousetrap Theatre Projects, 2022 Can you start by telling us about the novel? Life of Pi is a literary novel which means that it follows fewer rules than genre-based fiction. With romances, […]
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 91,000 individuals ages 65+ in Colorado are living with Alzheimer’s. On the national front, individuals diagnosed with dementia are projected to double from approximately 514,000 in 2020 to nearly 1 million by 2060 as the Baby Boomer generation (1946-1964) ages. At some point in life, it is more […]
In the Denver Center Theatre Company’s world premiere play, The Suffragette’s Murder by Sandy Rustin, it’s 1857, and a group of tenants is secretly working to support the bourgeoning suffrage movement. While the play is set in Manhattan, New Yorkers in the 1800s would have found plenty of kindred spirits in Colorado working to advance […]
Sandy Rustin, the playwright behind the world premiere production of The Suffragette’s Murder, has another trick up her sleeve. Her adaptation of the cult-classic Clue was one of the most produced plays of the 2022/23 season in the United States, according to American Theatre’s annual roundup. You never know where the next great American play […]
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is proud to announce a one-night-only performance will take place during the eminent annual gala, Saturday Night Alive. Tony Award-winning and Emmy- and Grammy-nominated actor Annaleigh Ashford returns to Colorado to take the Wolf Theatre stage for an evening of music on Saturday, June 14. Denver-born Ashford […]
Please note: Restaurant hours, locations, and menus are subject change, so please visit the restaurant website or call in advance of visiting. Canadians have their poutine, Denverites have their green chile fries. When it comes to a spicy, greasy, comfort food on the Front Range, a popular go-to is an order of French fries smothered […]
Less than a year after her Henry Award-winning production of The Lehman Trilogy, Margot Bordelon is returning to the Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC) to direct the world premiere of Sandy Rustin’s The Suffragette’s Murder. Set in 1857, The Suffragette’s Murder follows the eclectic residents of a New York City boarding house as they try […]
Comedy and tragedy were our first dramatic arts, expressing two sides of humanity’s condition. But at Denver’s legendary Comedy Works, the focus is solely on laughs. And such is the quality of the club that performers accustomed to larger venues in bigger cities carve space in their schedules to keep audiences in stitches both at […]