Tag: Denver Center For The Performing Arts
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Judi Wolf: Denver’s leading lady of the arts makes her final entrance
Judi Wolf was a woman for all costumes. “What is theatre without costumes?” she was fond of saying. “It’s radio!” Wolf, a longtime philanthropist and trustee for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, is the namesake of the Wolf Theatre, the largest performing space in the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex. It was a gift…
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Slim Cessna’s band says Amen after 33 years of fiery country rock
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Arts news: Since 1933, 26 band members sat in as members of one of Denver’s most beloved and least exclusive musical clubs One of my favorite concert reviews was chronicling the triumphant Denver reunion of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club 3½ years after the beloved band scattered throughout the country, seemingly harkening its end. The year…
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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 [email protected]. 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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Shakespeare on wheels? Local Denver acting troupe brings the show to you, for free
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, a mobile acting troupe that brings the 16th century playwright to life with little more than just a truck and costumes, announced six free shows around metro Denver in the coming months. The troupe, formed by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) in 2015, just reached their 700th…
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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…