Denver Center for the Performing Arts

How to Find the Right DCPA Education Class for You Have you always wanted to try acting? Are you looking for a creative outlet for your child? Maybe you’re preparing for auditions, hoping to sharpen your communication skills, or simply searching for a fun way to meet new people and try something new. Whatever brings […]

Long before Twilight, Divergent, and The Hunger Games, a teenage girl in Tulsa, Oklahoma invented the young adult genre. Susie Hinton was 16 when she wrote The Outsiders, which she sold to Viking Press under the name S.E. Hinton, so she wouldn’t be dismissed as just another girl. “There was only a handful of books […]

Parody and Paleontology in Hold On To Your Butts In Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), scientists manage to clone the T. rex, Triceratops, and other long-gone dinosaurs by recovering fragments of dino DNA from the bodies of ancient mosquitoes preserved in amber. The origins of Hold On To Your Butts, another clone of sorts, are […]

In 1993, we faced our own extinction…and never looked at a tiny mosquito the same way again. The novel-to-film adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg assembled an all-star cast — Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, and Samuel L. Jackson. They gathered on a remote island intended to be […]

How The Outsiders Gives Voice to Marginalized Youth and Inspires Across Generations by Ayanna Prescod In 1967, a 16-year-old from Tulsa, Oklahoma, quietly shifted the landscape of American literature. Susan Eloise Hinton, known more publicly as S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders from her bedroom while still in high school. What began as a response to […]