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Denver Center for the Performing Arts

1400 Curtis Street
Denver, CO

Denver Center for the Performing Arts is a theatre in Denver, CO.

Upcoming Shows

FDR's Very Happy Hour

Oct 14 – Nov 1, 2026

FDR's Very Happy Hour offers an interactive experience that resurrects Franklin Delano Roosevelt for a new generation. Created by Regan Linton and M. Graham Smith, the show combines cocktails, game-show trivia, and personal reflections on disability, inviting audiences to engage...

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Review: THE TEMPEST at Denver Center For The Performing Arts

Review: THE TEMPEST at Denver Center For The Performing Arts

by Tessa Nelson · October 14, 2026

The Denver Center delivers a brisk, inventive Tempest with outstanding ensemble performances, spectacular costumes and unusually clear storytelling, though its central performance lacks the humanity needed to make Shakespeare's meditation on forgiveness fully resonate.…

Review: 504: THE MUSICAL at Kilstrom Theater

Review: 504: THE MUSICAL at Kilstrom Theater

by Bee Levy · August 11, 2026

In 1977, a group of disabled activists peacefully occupied the San Francisco federal building in support of the signing of the first major piece of legislation that mandated enforcement of legal protections for the disabled community. 504: The Musical is a fictionalized version of the twenty-five da…

Past Shows

17 total · showing 1–10

English

English

Apr 17 – May 31, 2026

“English Only.” This one rule governs language instructor Marjan’s classroom, where she teaches four adult students outside of Tehran. Together, they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, chasing fluency through a maze of word games, listening exercises, and show-and-tell...

Somewhere

Somewhere

May 1 – May 31, 2026

From the Tony Award-winning writer of The Inheritance and The Legend of Georgia McBride comes a music and dance-filled portrait of a tight-knit Puerto Rican family striving to make it in show business. It’s 1959, West Side Story is a Broadway sensation, and the Candelarias’...

Next to Normal

Next to Normal

Apr 3 – May 3, 2026

Winner of three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Next to Normal deploys wry humor and brutal honesty to explore how a family navigates their darkest hours — and finds the path to new beginnings. On the surface, Diana has it all — a house in the suburbs, a successful...

Cowboys and East Indians

Cowboys and East Indians

Jan 16 – Mar 1, 2026

Adapted from Nina McConigley’s award-winning collection of short stories, Cowboys and East Indians follows the Sen family as they grapple with expectations and cultural collisions moving from India to Wyoming. Lakshmi “Lucky” Sen’s dad calls her a prairie dog — hesitant and...

Godspeed

Godspeed

Jan 30 – Feb 22, 2026

It’s 1865. Slavery has just been abolished in Texas. And a gunslinger named Godspeed returns to the Lone Star State with a six-shooter, one bullet, and vengeance on her mind. Having escaped bondage by fleeing to Mexico a decade earlier, she’s ready to stare down danger and...

Goodnight Moon

Goodnight Moon

Oct 24 – Jan 25, 2026

As the clock strikes seven o’clock, all your favorite characters in the Great Green Room spring to life on stage: Bunny, kittens and mittens, bears and chairs, the red balloon, a (not-so-quiet) old lady, and – of course – cows jumping over the magical moon. Featuring whimsical...

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Nov 21 – Dec 28, 2025

Essential to the holiday season in Denver, A Christmas Carol is a joyous and opulent musical adaptation for the whole family that traces money-hoarding curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge’s triumphant overnight journey to redemption. Based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, the DCPA...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Oct 3 – Nov 2, 2025

Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama unfolds one sweltering Mississippi night on the Pollitt family estate, where three generations reunite to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. As speculation about Big Daddy’s health simmers just beneath the festivities, rivalries for...

The Happiest Man on Earth

The Happiest Man on Earth

Sep 19 – Nov 2, 2025

Based on The New York Times best-selling memoir by Eddie Jaku, this “powerful and magnificent new work” ( BroadwayWorld ) tells a remarkable story of survival, revealing a paradox of joy built on a foundation of grief. Underneath his warm optimism, Eddie had long hidden painful...

Sweet & Lucky: Echo

Aug 13 – Oct 5, 2025

Sweet & Lucky: Echo is an immersive theater experience presented by Third Rail Projects and DCPA Off-Center, set to premiere in Denver on August 13, 2025. Directed by Zach Morris, this production invites audiences to explore a warehouse of memories, where a couple's life is...

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