DCPA to Premiere Two Plays in 2015DCPA to Premiere Two Plays in 2015

•The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA)’s 2014/15 season includes a number of favorite plays making returns to Denver as well as popular plays making their first trip to the city. However, the DCPA will also host two world premieres in 2015, launching new dramas into the world.

•The DCPA’s first 2015 world premiere will be Appoggiatura by three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee James Still. Leading off the Center’s 2015 season when it opens on January 23, the play will be staged in the Ricketson Theatre and follow three Americans on a trip to Venice, where they’ll face hard-to-heal wounds and hungers. The play will close February 22.

•A little less than two weeks after Apoggiatura opens, the DCPA will welcome its second world premiere: Benediction, written by Eric Schmiedl and based on a Kent Haruf novel. The show, set on Colorado’s high plains, will end a trilogy that follows three people as they search for connection while battling loneliness, separation, and time. Benediction will open February 6, 2015, and close March 1.