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Greetings and welcome to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts! We are delighted you are joining us for the return engagements of The Illusionists and CATS as well as Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat. Sweat is the culmination of our Denver Center Theatre Company’s 40th season, and what an exceptional season it has been! First, we greeted Chris Coleman as the Company’s fourth Artistic Director and he swept us up immediately in his Denver directorial debut. In Oklahoma!, he gave us a new perspective on the crucial role African Americans played during the rush to settle the Oklahoma Territory. This was balanced by the irreverent yet poignant production of Vietgone and William Somerset Maugham’s 1926 oh-so-timely portrayal of The Constant Wife. We then enjoyed our most successful run ever of A Christmas Carol before it goes on hiatus during The Stage Theatre renovation. January opened with two world premieres — Last Night and the Night Before and The Whistleblower — while Chris once again mounted a fresh approach to a classic with the lush and opulent staging of Anna Karenina. These last three plays all took place as the Theatre Company was welcoming sold-out crowds to its 14th annual Colorado New Play Summit. Four readings of works in development, three one-act play readings by winners of our Regional High School Workshop and Playwriting Competition, and one concert reading of our first musical commission — Rattlesnake Kate. It was an exhilarating whirlwind that showcased the best new voices in the American theatre. Now we set our gaze forward — to a new season, to new theatres, to new plays and playwrights. You can read all about our 2019/20 DCPA Theatre Company season on pages 10-11, which will offer up the first-ever production of A Doll’s House and A Doll’s House, Part 2 in repertory, a direct-from-Broadway hit and two world premieres. Thank you for joining us for this remarkable season. You are the reason we tell stories — to remind every person in our audience that the stories on our stages reflect the diversity, the complexity and the beauty of our community.
Janice Sinden President & CEO
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