Denver Center Theatre Company

Denver Center Theatre Company is a division of Denver Center for the Performing Arts and is the principal, resident theater in the Rocky Mountain region. It mission is fourfold: to create theater that excites, engages, and inspires audiences throughout Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region; to produce an eclectic season of productions that reflect both the diversity of its community and the challenges facing the country; to support a resident theater company of the highest caliber; and to foster the future of American theater through the commissioning, development, and production of new plays and musicals that add to the American canon, and through rigorous training of young artists of exceptional promise who will become leading professionals of the next generation. Denver Center for the Performing Arts has included arts education in its mission since its inception, and its programs in the Colorado schools include dramatic-learning and living-history residencies, student matinees, post-performances talkbacks, and pre-performance perspectives offered on-site.

As part of Shakespeare or a New Generation, Denver Center Theatre Company will produce The Taming of the Shrew as par to its mainstage series at The Stage Theatre. Nine public high school sin the Denver area and two schools in rural communities have been selected to participate, and these schools represent some of the most at-risk and diverse schools in the area. Each of the schools will receive teacher training, including interactive exercises that focus on play's themes, structure, scansion, and verse; in-school participatory workshops based on the theater's dramatic-learning and living-history models; matinee tickets; study guides; and pre- and post-performance discussions.