Tag: Denver Center For The Performing Arts
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Dan Ritchie’s farewell: Leaders, friends say goodbye to ‘moral compass’ of Denver
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
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Denver Center will make history by staging Jake Brasch’s ‘The Reservoir’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Meet the new gatekeeper: Kenny Moten | John Moore
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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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…
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In-person Broadway shows expected to return to Denver in 2021
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver Center for the Performing Arts expects to begin reopening Broadway tours at the Buell Theatre by the end of 2021, beginning with “The Lion King” in December. The announcement on Wednesday comes as the center has canceled 34 shows since March 2020 due…