DCPA Education announces winners of its eighth annual AT&T High School Playwriting Competition

  In 2013, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Education team launched a high school playwriting program to nurture Colorado’s young writers, cultivate theatre artists and audiences, develop new plays, and advance literacy, creativity, writing and communication through playwriting. Since its inception, the workshops and competition have impacted more than 25,000 students. Due to […]

DCPA selects two local projects to develop as part of its Powered by Off-Center Program 

The Bright Lights of Denver and Don Quixote de Auraria chosen from 39 submissions representing 82 Colorado artists DCPA Off-Center is pleased to announce not one, but two projects have been selected as part of its Powered By Off-Center program. The Bright Lights of Denver, created by Kenny Moten and Jessica Hindsley, will receive a […]

COVID-safe Van Gogh Alive comes to life at Stanley Marketplace

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Stephen Lindsay & Brett Sirota and Andrew Kay Management in partnership with Grande Experiences present Van Gogh Alive, a large-scale, multi-sensory experience to entertain the whole family. For a limited time only — July 9 through September 26 in The Hangar at Aurora’s Stanley Marketplace — audiences have the unique […]

Dorota and Kevin Kilstrom name final theatre as part of DCPA’s Capital Campaign

Former Space Theatre will be renamed The Dorota & Kevin Kilstrom Theatre in honor of DCPA Trustee Kevin Kilstrom and his wife Dorota.

Douglas Langworthy: A champion of good plays and goodness

DCPA Theatre Company’s Director of New Play Development was known for his sharp mind and gentle spirit Douglas Langworthy liked to call himself “a card-carrying Libra, ever seeking harmony in the world.” Never comfortable in the spotlight, he would rather rate any public experience by its “squirm factor.” Which may explain why the DCPA Theatre […]

Candlelight to open second, bigger theatre in Fort Collins

The Boardwalk will fill void left by closure of Midtown Arts Center Theatre in Fort Collins will come full circle in 2021 when the newly announced Boardwalk by Candlelight opens in central Fort Collins. Not only will the new theatre fill the void brought by the closure of the Midtown Arts Center in August, it […]

David Byrne, Mala Gaonkar to open ‘Theater of the Mind’ in Denver with Off-Center

Massive theatrical immersion will take the audience on a deep dive into the human brain

2019-20 Theatre Company season: New stories, new storytellers

Marginalized voices will be heard in innovative season that includes a return to repertory for both parts of A Doll’s House