Denver Center for the Performing Arts

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 […]

While dinosaurs no longer roam the earth, there are several exhibits and attractions across the Centennial State that will get you ready for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ upcoming cabaret show, Hold On To Your Butts — a parody of the classic film and Michael Crichton novel, Jurassic Park. OFFICIAL TICKETS: Visit the […]

Playwright’s Note Reprinted by permission of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Telenovelas, whether watched or not, are a daily part of popular culture and seep into the lives of most Latin Americans. So when my family emigrated from Mexico to the United States, telenovelas seemed destined to become a thing of my past. Until I realized,  Americans […]