Denver Center for the Performing Arts

When Thomas Beeker walked across the Ellie Caulkins Opera House stage as a 2022 Bobby G Award winner, Denver audiences knew they would see him again. And just four years later, he is part of the North American tour of Les Misérables. “Every time I think about it, I can’t imagine doing anything else,” Thomas […]

On a dreary spring morning in St. Louis, actors Adam Grant Morrison and David Fine are talking about their pivotal roles in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s national tour, now in its second year. Morrison mentions a scene in which his and Fine’s characters — Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy, respectively — have […]

Many producers had floated the idea of creating a Harry Potter musical, J.K. Rowling had always politely declined. But a play about the adult Harry, inspired by the epilogue of Rowling’s seventh and final novel? Now, that idea intrigued the author whose books have sold more than 600 million copies worldwide. Together with playwright Jack […]

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling ended her epic seven-volume series of novels with a tantalizing teaser: an epilogue titled “Nineteen Years Later,” in which Harry and his friends Hermione and Ron, now grown, are preparing to send their children off to school at Hogwarts. That brief chapter inspired the spectacular stage production, Harry Potter and […]

In 1909, the United States government passed the Enlarged Homestead Act to encourage dry-land farming in most western states including Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada. Individuals could claim up to 320 acres of land while married couples were entitled to 640 acres. Despite the daunting challenge of farming this seemingly barren […]