Review: High-Flying Feats in WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at the Denver Center
by Jon Bee - February 12, 2026
The national tour of Water for Elephants is the latest show to stop at DCPA as it makes its way across the country. I only just last year read the novel by Sara Gruen followed quickly by the feature film starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson. ...
Review: COWBOYS AND EAST INDIANS Defies Assumptions at DCPA
by Jon Bee - January 26, 2026
DCPA Theatre Company's legacy of 'outdoing' themselves continues with their latest world premiere production of Cowboys and East Indians, based on the short story collection by Nina McConigley and written by McConigley and Matthew Spangler....
Review: THE NOTEBOOK Makes it Rain at DCPA
by Jon Bee - December 18, 2025
It is no wonder so many movies, tv shows, and musicals start out as the written word. I would argue the best stories are those that draw you in and keep you engaged from start to finish, regardless of how long it takes to finish. Perhaps that is why when I first read The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks ...
Past Shows
Airness
Aug 15 – Sep 9, 2023
A comedy about competition, completion, and finding the airness inside yourself.When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy. But...
The Understudy
Mar 8 – Apr 1, 2023
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to go behind the scenes at a Broadway show? The Understudy gives you backstage access to the world...
Peter and The Starcatcher
Aug 27 – Sep 4, 2022
Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a....
The Play That Goes Wrong
Jul 6 – Aug 7, 2022
The Play That Goes Wrong follows the antics of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, who are trying their very best to stage a production of...
LEND ME A TENOR
Jul 27 – Aug 12, 2018
Winner of 3 Tony Awards Lend Me A Tenor is set in September 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is...
Monty Python's SPAMALOT
Jun 15 – Jul 21, 2018
Rude Frenchmen, cancan dancers, the Lady of the Lake and her Laker Girls, Killer rabbits, catapulting cows, and the somewhat odd Knights Who Say "Ni"...
OUR TEACHER'S A TROLL
Jun 22 – Jul 21, 2018
Holly and Sean are the terrible twins who are so naughty that the headteacher of their primary school, Mrs Spike, is found gibbering in the...
VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
Jul 29 – Aug 14, 2016
Winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play. In this dynamic new comedy by the author of Beyond Therapy, Vanya and his stepsister Sonia...
CHICAGO
Jun 17 – Jul 24, 2016
In razzle-dazzle, roaring twenties Chicago, married chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover. Roxie and a sister murderess, Velma Kelly, are both headline hunters seeking...
THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
Jul 1 – Jul 24, 2016
In this inventive and highly theatrical adaptation of the C.S. Lewis classic story, Peter and Lucy take us back to Narnia where the White Witch...
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