Denver Center for the Performing Arts

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is an organization in Denver, Colorado which provides a showcase for live theatre, a nurturing ground for new plays, a preferred stop on the Broadway touring circuit, acting classes for the community and rental facilities.

Finding himself at 14th and Curtis streets in downtown Denver one day and looking at the old Auditorium Theatre and the surrounding four blocks, Seawell had an idea for a first-class arts complex.

By 1979 the Auditorium Theatre had been renovated, creating the state-of-the-art Ellie Caulkins Opera House.

Now led by President & CEO Janice Sinden, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is currently[when?]

[2] The festival (which had been held in Baltimore previously, known as the International Theater Festival[3]) comprised a program of 114 performances of 18 plays, by theatre companies from 13 countries, across 25 days.