399 stories by "Lisa Kennedy"
Some like it hot. And they have had their share of "Evita" productions suited to their hankerings. Others, we welcome a chill in the air. So the national tour of the 2012 Broadway reviva…
When playwright Marcus Gardley was commissioned for a new work by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in 2009, he knew what subject he would take on: the Pullman Porters.
"Ascendant" is a mighty fine word to characterize the Curious Theatre Company's production of "The Whipping Man."
What happens when a movie beats you to the punch? Or the whip? That could have been the quandary the Curious Theatre Company faced when Steve McQueen's unrelenting drama "12 Years a Slave"
Consider January Matthew Lopez month in Denver. On a recent Saturday afternoon during a rehearsal of the up-and-coming playwright's "The Whipping Man," Curious Theatre Company's artistic
Two of the funniest movies of the 1970s got their Broadway gussy-up in the 2000s. And each is being staged locally.
With risk comes rewards. That adage will hold true for theatergoers in the upcoming months as some of the area's finest theaters mount premieres of new plays and take on other heady prod…
All that is missing from the hammy "Monty Python's Spamalot" at Boulder's Dinner Theatre is a holiday pineapple ring.
It's simple really: A memorable theater experience begins — and ends — with the feeling I wouldn't want to be anyplace else at that moment.
If there's a holiday production to best thus far, it's the Denver Center's "A Christmas Carol," through Dec.
Move over, Ebenezer, a sharp-tongued Elf named Crumpet's got you beat when it comes to tart holiday observations.
If perchance you grow weary of holiday visitors Ebenezer Scrooge, George Bailey or even a crackingwise elf named Crumpet — and how could you?
This holiday, area theaters are offering more options than there are lift flaps on an Advent calendar.
Tennessee Williams' indelible Southern family is having at it — and each other — in Lakewood's Edge Theatre's revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
When Greg suddenly brings home a stray pooch in "Sylvia," he lands in the doghouse. Any animal rescue organization will tell you that it is hard to pull off that surprise under the best of …
Late in the pleasingly biting living-room comedy "Rancho Mirage," I had to double-check the program for the spelling of the host couple's last name.
Playwright Steven Dietz was trying to find a quiet place in the Indianapolis Museum of Art on a recent Thursday afternoon.
The subject may be art, but there's a lot more ridiculous than sublime going on in Catherine Trieschmann's amusing comedy about a clash of ideals and agendas.
Geez, gosh, golly, what can we say? "The Book of Mormon" makes it far too easy to become a repeat offender.
In 1974, Atlantic Records released Chicano singer-songwriter Daniel Valdez's album "Mestizo." As the first (and only) album of its kind, it was a landmark moment for Chicano arts.
In Karen Zacarias' adaptation of Helen Thorpe's nonfiction tome about immigration, "Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America," the incursion of the journa…
None other than doomed salesman Willy Loman shared this insight recently: "I realize Willy's not the hero, Biff is." Or rather, Mike Hartman, the actor portraying Willy in the Denver Center …
A gentlemen's wager at London's elite Reform Club leads one of its more mysterious members on a quest to circumnavigate the globe, his new manservant in tow.
As its title suggests, Jeff Campbell's wildly funny, sharply performed one-man show "Who Killed Jigaboo Jones?" is something of a murder mystery.
When the immigration drama "Just Like Us" has its world premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' Stage Theatre on Oct. 10, it will in many ways mark the continuing saga of powe…
