Tag: Denver Center For The Performing Arts
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Weekend things to do around Denver and beyond
Each Thursday, explore Denver’s essential weekend events curated by The Denver Gazette. Dive into cultural experiences and entertainment delights across the city. Whether you enjoy art galleries, pottery, or outdoor sports, there’s something for everyone in Denver’s vibrant cultural scene. To submit an event for consideration, email listings@gazette.com. THURSDAY-NEW YEAR’S EVE So many holiday light shows…
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Husbands and wives keep the home fire burning on stage
2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 11 Married couple Marco and Adriane Robinson were romantically paired three times in 2025, while Shakespeare duo’s love was in full Boulder bloom Is there anything more irresistible than for a romantic leading man to be paired with a romantic leading lady who happens to be his romantic…
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The Paris art heist: Could it happen here in Denver?
Arts news: MCA Denver has new leader; daughter follows mom’s Fezziwig footsteps; Denver Press Club honors Ari Shapiro. The short answer is no. If the brazen thieves who used a vehicle-mounted ladder to access a second-floor window at the Louvre Museum in Paris tried that funny business at the Denver Art Museum, “I would like…
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Dan Ritchie’s farewell: Leaders, friends say goodbye to ‘moral compass’ of Denver
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Daniel L. Ritchie’s long journey came to an end Thursday in the most unlikely yet likely of places: At center ice. (Or, as the many arts aficionados in the audience might call it: Center stage). That’s where the modest University of Denver chancellor’s casket was…
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Monopoly Lifesized delivers for game lovers
The first thing to understand about the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ interactive “Monopoly Lifesized Travel Edition” production is that the strategies usually deployed during the board game will not earn a victory here. As a lifelong Monopoly player, I grew up loving real estate and later covered it for years at the Denver…
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Sprinkler system drenches first two ‘Hairspray’ performances in Denver
It’s not often you can say that an indoor theater performance has been rained out. But what has happened to the national touring production of “Hairspray” in Denver this week is the baseball equivalent of a double-header washout. The first two performances of the popular Broadway musical’s week-long visit to Denver on Tuesday and Wednesday…
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Denver Center will make history by staging Jake Brasch’s ‘The Reservoir’
Jake Brasch has a message for the military: “Colorado artists are on the verge of taking over the world!” (If only that were not hyperbole.) Brasch is a Denver-born playwright and floating on Cloud 99 this week with the announcement that the homegrown Denver Center Theatre Company will produce his play “The Reservoir” as part…
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Meet the new gatekeeper: Kenny Moten | John Moore
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Kenny Moten is not “The Change.” More like “The Change-Maker.” Moten was the most in-demand director in Colorado theater in 2023, and he not only made the most of it – he brought an awful lot of people along for the ride. Everywhere he went, the…
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Leslie Crispelle: He put his money where the magic was
Every time Les Crispelle and Glenn Tiedt celebrated Thanksgiving, they would go around the table saying what they were thankful for. And the couple never once varied in their 25 Thanksgivings together. Every year, Tiedt said he was grateful for Crispelle. And every year, Crispelle said he was thankful for Alcoholics Anonymous and his eventual…
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Tickets go on sale for return of ‘Hamilton’ to Denver
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thousands of people lined up virtually Tuesday morning as tickets for the showings of the Broadway hit “Hamilton” in Denver went on sale. Tickets sold by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts went on…