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Friday, July 26, 2024

Flamboyan Theatre’s “Empire of Solitude” brings the Puerto Rican experience to Denver audiences by Lisa Kennedy

"Puerto Rico has maintained its national distinctiveness in spite of colonialism, racism, and economic highs and lows."

SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:36PM
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Denver’s latest experiential show plunges you into total, stunning darkness by Lisa Kennedy

The fuselage shutters and creaks. A flight attendant leans in and whispers “You are already in the luckiest seat.” Later, you may swear you felt her breath in the pitch-black darkness.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:42AM
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

‘Sing Sing’ Review: Divine Interventions by Lisa Kennedy

A deep-tissue turn by Colman Domingo and a breakout performance by Clarence Maclin lift this moving drama about a prison theater program.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PM
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Some stage actors can transform an audience as they transform themselves by Lisa Kennedy

Have you ever turned the corner on an actor? After years of watching them, maybe on screen -- or, in this instance, on stage?

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:18PM
Friday, June 14, 2024

Yoga, steel girders and machismo at Vintage Theatre | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

“The Hombres” creates fresh space for unexpected amity.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:42AM
Thursday, June 6, 2024

A tainted river runs through it: “Cullud wattah” dives into a water crisis | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

A tainted river runs through it: “Cullud wattah” dives into a water crisis | Theater review

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:18PM
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Catamounts shows put the audience at the center of the action by Lisa Kennedy

The Boulder company's latest, "Impossible Things," invites you to attend graduation.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:42AM
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Investment bank collapse gets the epic saga treatment at DCPA | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

One can argue the deepest tragedies of the story aren’t borne by the people onstage.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:54PM
Thursday, May 9, 2024

“237 Virginia Avenue”: A housing crisis 400 years in the making | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

In playwright David Myers’ “237 Virginia Avenue,” a father and son play a not-always friendly, increasingly freighted game of Monopoly.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:12PM
Thursday, May 2, 2024

 “Where Did We Sit on the Bus?” puts the audience in the Loop at the Denver Center | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

Downstairs in the Singleton Theatre, things are positively loopy. Or rather brilliantly looping, as a young, Latina music-maker sets about crafting a mixed tape of her life in the hip-hop-in…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:48AM
Friday, April 19, 2024

Denver Center’s offbeat “Emma” will delight fans of rom-coms, Austen’s novel by Lisa Kennedy

The rhythms of Jane Austen’s novels are so persuasive, their challenges and resolutions so familiar, that playwright Kate Hamill can merrily tease our knowledge again and again in her wink…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:12PM
Friday, April 12, 2024

Nothing is black and white about “MJ: The Musical”| Review by Lisa Kennedy

For the most part, the show brackets out the controversies that bedevil Jackson’s legacy, but it doesn’t demand that we do the same.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:24AM
Monday, April 8, 2024

What makes Denver theater audiences different? (Hint: It starts with a sense of humor) by Lisa Kennedy

“The world seems to be asking to be uplifted these days."

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:02AM
Thursday, April 4, 2024

10 things to know about Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson by Lisa Kennedy

Here's 10 things to know about the playwright and his work.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:42PM
Thursday, March 28, 2024

5 reasons you should see Phamaly’s “The Cost of Living” at Curious Theatre by Lisa Kennedy

What if your theater review were fractured? Broken apart and rearranged to get at something new about a staged work, to get at something different about the experience?

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AM
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024

How DCPA used a psychotherapist to flesh out characters in its new WWII spy thriller by Lisa Kennedy

Their invention may have legs. She hopes to train new practitioners in what psychodramaturgy is -- and what it is not.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:02AM
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Seduction, sex and WWII: Espionage drama “Rubicon” premieres at the Denver Center by Lisa Kennedy

Play about Betty Thorpe is as much about gender politics as geo-politics.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:18AM
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Tony-winning musical about a daughter-dad reckoning gets an inspired production by Lisa Kennedy

The 90-minute show is amusing and at times dark. It is also powerfully humane.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:54PM
Friday, February 9, 2024

In divided times, the Colorado debut of Pulitzer finalist “What the Constitution Means to Me” is wise and funny by Lisa Kennedy

The play’s feminist take on the vision, blind spots and vulnerabilities of the U.S. Constitution gained urgency when Donald Trump took office.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:42AM
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Three Latina sisters take a wild road trip in new dramatic comedy at Denver Center by Lisa Kennedy

“Cebollas” --  Spanish for onion — stays true to its meaning.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:18AM
Friday, February 2, 2024

In this Boulder theater series, the actors feed the audience — literally by Lisa Kennedy

But you've got to keep eating during the short and evocative performances in the elegant dinner theater that is “FEED: Dry.”

SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:12PM
Thursday, February 1, 2024

This “Misery” deserves company at Miners Alley | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

Ensemble has a darkly enjoyable time with Stephen King’s tale of fandom run amok.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:54PM
Monday, January 22, 2024

Sisterhood comes naturally for these Latina actresses by Lisa Kennedy

Leonard Madrid, playwright of the new comedy “Cebollas,” has one sister, 10 aunts and 36 primas, or female cousins.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:18AM
Friday, January 19, 2024

Sins of a son confronted, in gripping “Truth Be Told” | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

Two mothers wrestle with the sins of sons in Curious Theatre Company’s mass-shooting drama.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:06AM
Thursday, January 4, 2024

It was almost curtains for a Boulder theater company, but new leadership has changed that by Lisa Kennedy

“There’s a world of difference between starting a company with no audience, no space, and then coming here with a patron database of 8,000 people, all of whom were so loyal.”

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:02AM
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Friday, December 15, 2023
Friday, December 8, 2023

Hit musical “Six” brings Henry VIII’s exes to vivid life | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

If the Six were a girl group, it’s not clear how much they’d have topped the charts. Which doesn’t mean the women in the Tony-winning -- and just plain winning — musical “Six” do…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:42PM
Friday, December 1, 2023

“Letters of Suresh” is as beguiling as an origami bird | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

Curious Theatre Company’s latest is a nuanced production.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:32AM
Thursday, November 16, 2023

A compelling civil rights “herstory” lesson at Vintage | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

“Cadillac Crew" is an act of recovery and discovery, of connecting dots and tracing lineage

SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:18PM

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