Denver Center Theatre Company 2010/11 Season!

The Denver Center Theatre Company’s 2010/11 Season was announced yesterday!  Artistic Director Kent Thompson summarizes the season in this video:

 
Here are the plays on the new season:
 
Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps
Adapted by Patrick Barlow
From the novel by John Buchan
From the movie of Alfred Hitchcock
Original concept by Nobby Dimon and Simon Corble
Sept 10-Nov 14 | Ricketson Theatre
    
 
Isabel [...]

OTHELLO – Working Against Instinct

By Meghan Wolf, actress playing Desdemona in Othello, Denver Center Theatre Company
 
This week I have been exploring Desdemona’s innocence and purity, which appears as fairly extreme to our modern, feminist sensibilities. At the turn of the century, even more than when the play was written, women were exceedingly obedient, so all of my modern impulses to [...]

YouTube Tuesday – Creating MAMA HATED DIESELS

For today’s YouTube Tuesday, Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman talk about how they created the world premiere musical, Mama Hated Deisels, a rambunctious musical portrait of America’s long-distance truckers.  The first preview performance, which is also the $10 Student Night, is on Friday! 
 

IN THE HEIGHTS – Connecting with Denver’s dance scene

This weekend we will be at the Denver Dance Festival promoting In the Heights, which will play The Buell Theatre April 28-May 9. The Denver Dance Festival is a three-day dance festival held annually in Denver featuring live performances from some of Denver’s best dance talent. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to reach [...]

OTHELLO – Heart-break and Corsets

By Meghan Wolf, actress playing Desdemona in Othello, Denver Center Theatre Company
 
Well, the fun and games are over…on to death.
 
It’s one thing to read the scenes around the table and yet another to embody them. The former is a more theoretical process, closer to story-telling, and the latter is much more personal, like actually living it! [...]

YouTube Tuesday – Denver’s Own MARY POPPINS Star

Bryce Baldwin grew up taking classes at the Denver Center Theatre Academy and performed in the DCTC’s mainstage productions of A Christmas Carol and Richard III. He is now performing as “Michael Banks” in the national Broadway tour of Mary Poppins, produced by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh. We caught up with Bryce at his farm in Thorton, [...]

Kids Night On Broadway

By Heidi Bosk, DCPA employee
 
My first Broadway show was Phantom of the Opera. I was probably no more than 10 or 11 years old and I went with my dad who remains to be my theatre “date” after more than a decade later. Coming down to the Denver Performing Arts Complex was a REALLY big [...]

MARY POPPINS: Load-in to the Buell!

Mary Poppins is here!  In preparation for the first performance tonight, we thought we’d share some pictures from the load-in on Wednesday:

It’s “10 Minutes to Curtain” Time!

It’s Texas Independence Day AND the first Tuesday of March, which means it’s time for a new episode of “10 Minutes to Curtain”!
 
This month, go behind-the-scenes with the creators of the world premiere musical Mama Hated Diesels, learn about how costumes are designed and created for the upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Othello, catch up with [...]

MARY POPPINS: Mending Our Modern World

By Jeff Rummer, DCPA employee
 
This morning I read the Mary Poppins article in The Denver Post and noted the ending quote from Gavin Lee the actor who plays Bert, the chimney sweep:
 
“I believe Mary Poppins, of all the Disney shows, has a bit more meat to it because this is a real story about a family [...]