Denver Center for Performing Arts

Hours of Operation

  • Performances vary, check website for details.
(303) 893-4100
1245 Champa St
Denver, CO 80204

Description

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts contains ten separate performance spaces that total nearly 10,000 seats combined. The Boettcher Concert Hall was America's first theater-in-the-round and is home to the Colorado Symphony Orchestra while the recently renovated Ellie Caulkins Opera House is hom... more »

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For cultural events, Bree and Orson head to the DCPA complex to see a performance of the Denver Symphony. From ballet to opera to dramas to broadway musicals, the DCPA can accommodate performances on one of ten stages.

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Under the protective shell of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts you will find this portly statue. Your art-snob friends will tell you that this big girl was sculpted by Botero, a very important 20th century artist, and that Denver is lucky to have one of his works. Personally, I think she looks like the late Anna Nicole Smith, and someone show throw a blanket over her.

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