399 stories by "Lisa Kennedy"
The distance between artifice and authenticity in a stage performance can run from a hair's breadth to a chasm.
The set Tina Anderson devised for the world premiere of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's "And the Sun Stood Still" is ingenious.
Something simmering and intellectually arousing is afoot at a former nightclub in Colorado Springs.
With a tight grip on some of the ugly truths of addiction, Peter Quilter's "End of the Rainbow" imagines the final six weeks of Judy Garland's life.
In 1995, Dava Sobel introduced readers to one John Harrison with her graceful and engrossing history, " Longitude, The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Prob…
"12 Angry Folk" just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? Too bad. Because the Cherry Creek Theatre's production of "12 Angry Men" — about a jury stalled during a homicide tri…
Hamlet had it half right. Were that moody prince of Denmark living in Colorado at the moment, he surely would have amended one of his famous lines.
The Denver Center Theatre Company announced its 2014-15 season, and it's got dramatic muscle, comedic might and even some melody.
Boulder's bright young company the Catamounts has taken on "There is a Happiness That Morning Is," smarty-pants playwright Mikle Maher's hugely clever verse play about William Blake and tw…
The trashy alleyway behind a bargain store may be an odd place for an office meeting.
New plays don't come without risks, but the rewards can be thrilling.
The best representative of success for so-called niche theater companies aiming to reach beyond their base is a powerful production.
Every now and again, a show comes along that reminds us that the juke-box musical can be finely crafted theater.
"I think of myself as a fighter," playwright Nicky Silver said.
There's bound to be dickering. It's Shakespeare after all. And not just any play in the Bard's 38, but "Hamlet."
When Broadway's highest honors were given out last June, "Pippin" won the Tony Award for best revival of a musical and "Kinky Boots" took the prize for best musical.
Currently there is more incendiary, deeper, fresher theater throughout town. But if audience reaction is a measure, then sometimes theatergoers of a certain age just want to have fun.
Thanks goodness for actor Chris Kendall. So went my thinking as I drove home in silence after watching the Super Bowl with a very superstitious — and demoralized — football-…
A movie set can resemble a construction site. Chunky electrical cables snake along floors out onto streets, slithering toward humming generators.
Samuel Johnson was smart but when he wrote that "puns are the lowest form of humor," he couldn't guess what delicious — and potent — meaning that form of word play might bring t…
Playwright Conor McPherson has been getting deserved attention on local stages recently.
Can 3.5 times 2 ever equal 4? Granted, I'm not good at math, but the Denver Center's world premiere of "The Legend of Georgia McBride" confirms that, yes, yes it can.
Last spring, there was drama aplenty as the revival of "Orphans" made its way to Broadway.
