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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...
“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...
From the Tony Award-winning writer of The Inheritance and The Legend of Georgia McBridecomes a music and dance-filled portrait of a tight-knit Puerto Rican family striving to make...
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. ...
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....
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
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The Denver Center Theatre Company presents Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Chris Coleman. Starring Ben Fankhauser as Seymour and Gizel Jiménez as Audrey, this...
The Hot Wing King, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Katori Hall, will premiere at the Denver Center Theatre Company on April 25, 2025. Directed by...
The Reservoir, written by Jake Brasch and directed by Shelley Butler, explores the tumultuous life of Josh, who returns to Denver from NYU seeking sobriety...
The Suffragette’s Murder is a farcical whodunit set on July 5, 1857, in a bustling Manhattan boarding house. As tenants prepare for a secret women's...
A set of gifted singers and instrumentalists sing through some of the greatest songs of one of America's most brilliant singer/songwriters, Johnny Cash. Though he...
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