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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Tony Awards 2014: Colorado theater luminaries weigh in by Lisa Kennedy

Broadway's biggest party — the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards — is set to sashay into Radio City Music Hall tonight.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:24PM
Friday, June 6, 2014

Theater review: What becomes a legend? asks poignant "Peggy Jo" by Lisa Kennedy

It's OK if you detect a trace of Walter White and a touch of "American Hustle " in "Peggy Jo and the Desolate Nothing," onstage at Bunport though June 21.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:41PM
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Theater Review: Musical "John & Jen" flourishes in small venue by Lisa Kennedy

Musicals are treated at times as if they are built solely for belting. So each year, when the Cherry Creek Theatre presents its summer musical, it offers up-close-and-personal lessons…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:04PM
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Review: "Peggy Jo and the Desolate Nothing" by Lisa Kennedy

For four weekends, Buntport and Square Product Theater have joined forces to consider the tale of cross-dressing bank robber Peggy Jo Tallas, as only two of the area's most creatively heads…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:02PM
Friday, May 23, 2014

Summer 2014: Summer calls for road trips and visits to intimate venues by Lisa Kennedy

Two of the area's most inspired, zany theater companies — Denver's Buntport and Boulder's Square Product Theatre — team up for the final work of their seasons.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:33PM
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Review: Macbeth" bloody, female, and living in Paris in the 1920s by Lisa Kennedy

So ferocious were the cultural appetites — from painting to music to literature — that the 1920s rightly earned the moniker the Roaring Twenties.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:38PM
Friday, May 16, 2014

Review: Something wickedly arch this way comes in "Venus in Fur" by Lisa Kennedy

The fog insinuating itself above the stage before the Curious Theatre Company's "Venus in Fur" plunges the audience into questions of eros and power and speaks to both the chill and smold…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:42PM
Friday, May 9, 2014

Theater review: Wanting more from Boulder Ensemble's "This" by Lisa Kennedy

Should a play be taken to task for the news cycle it arrives in? Probably not. Unless that work actually invites the scrutiny.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:37PM
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Review: "Once" again with feeling: A beloved movie goes from screen to stage by Lisa Kennedy

An original love story deserves an equally unique telling. The Tony-winning musical "Once" — at the Buell for too fleeting a moment — is just that.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:57PM
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Theater Review: The cocktails flow in a sobering "Great Gatsby" by Lisa Kennedy

"The Great Gatsby" gang — Jay and Nick, Tom and Daisy — are still on invitation lists this season.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:36AM
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Review: Dixie Longate's latest is a hoot and a holler by Lisa Kennedy

A storm is lashing the night sky outside a honky-tonk bar in Mobile, Ala. Thunderclaps occasionally punctuate the fast and furiously funny business taking place at the Garner Galleria,

SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:21PM
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Review: Likable trio can't save "The Other Woman" by Lisa Kennedy

So much screamed "Noooo!" about the prospects for the comedy "The Other Woman," starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:04PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

In Denver Center's "Animal Crackers," Groucho makes way by Lisa Kennedy

Maybe it's the passage of time. Or perhaps it's the indelible impression the Vlasic stork made in all those commercials.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:25PM
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Screw Tooth "'til Death" Review: A fine (anti) romance this is by Lisa Kennedy

Couples tend to "meet cute" in romantic comedies, especially in the movies. They back into each other.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:21PM
Thursday, April 10, 2014

"Animal Crackers" at the Denver Center: The world according to Marx — the Brothers, that is by Lisa Kennedy

The Denver Center Theatre Company plans to leave 'em laughing. A revival of the Marx Brothers' "Animal Crackers" ends the company's fine 2013-14 season with a bang, zippy lines and ple…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:12PM
Friday, April 4, 2014

Review: C.S. Lewis' life, love, faith on fine display in "Shadowlands" by Lisa Kennedy

The distance between artifice and authenticity in a stage performance can run from a hair's breadth to a chasm.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:26PM
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

"And the Sun Stood Still" portrays a cosmic meeting of the minds by Lisa Kennedy

The set Tina Anderson devised for the world premiere of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's "And the Sun Stood Still" is ingenious.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:37PM

"Venus in Fur" an erotic, powerful play about power plays by Lisa Kennedy

Something simmering and intellectually arousing is afoot at a former nightclub in Colorado Springs.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:10PM
Friday, March 28, 2014

Review: Judy Garland after the rainbow wasn't enough by Lisa Kennedy

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.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:24PM
Thursday, March 27, 2014

"And the Sun Stood Still": Dava Sobel's Copernicus takes the stage in Boulder by Lisa Kennedy

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…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:47PM
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Review: "12 Angry Men" offers old-fashion sound and fury by Lisa Kennedy

"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…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:12PM
Friday, March 14, 2014

New play development is booming in Colorado by Lisa Kennedy

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.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:08PM

Denver Center Theatre Company 2014-2015 season schedule announced by Lisa Kennedy

The Denver Center Theatre Company announced its 2014-15 season, and it's got dramatic muscle, comedic might and even some melody.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:25PM
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Review: Catamounts' "There is a Happiness That Morning Is" by Lisa Kennedy

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…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:33PM

Review: "Good People" from Curious Theatre Company by Lisa Kennedy

The trashy alleyway behind a bargain store may be an odd place for an office meeting.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:32PM

Local Lab and Athena Project: Two fests pull back the curtain on new plays by Lisa Kennedy

New plays don't come without risks, but the rewards can be thrilling.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:53PM
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Reviews: Two plays stoke the embers of memory by Lisa Kennedy

The best representative of success for so-called niche theater companies aiming to reach beyond their base is a powerful production.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:53PM
Thursday, February 27, 2014

"Million Dollar Quartet" doesn't quite give legendary night its due by Lisa Kennedy

Every now and again, a show comes along that reminds us that the juke-box musical can be finely crafted theater.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:53PM
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Meet "The Lyons" - secrets and lies, fangs, claws and all (review) by Lisa Kennedy

"I think of myself as a fighter," playwright Nicky Silver said.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:44PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime