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Friday, September 3, 2021

Review: Miners Alley Playhouse “Before You Go” is a worthwhile drama by Lisa Kennedy

"Before You Go" at Miners Alley Playhouse runs through Sept. 19. There's a burst of energy before it settles into something often clever and at times quietly commanding.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:32AM
Thursday, August 12, 2021

How a Denver-based rapper, theater company teamed up to create Phamaly’s “Alice in Wonderland” by Lisa Kennedy

It seems so obvious in retrospect, the pairing of a talented Denver-based rapper with an ace local theater company on an original production. But then, that’s how the best no-brainers ofte…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:48AM
Monday, August 9, 2021

Documenting Colorado, on stage: “Wild Fire,” “CO2020” and “Sojourner” telling our stories by Lisa Kennedy

“Wild Fire” is the latest addition to a growing number of productions foregrounding the stories of Coloradans by conducting fresh interviews, mining oral histories and/or diving into arc…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:36AM
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Theater Review: Diorama drama and laughs in Buntport’s latest “Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake.” by Lisa Kennedy

Created in collaboration with local playwright Ellen K. Graham, Buntport's latest "Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake" brings drama and laughs.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:04PM
Monday, February 19, 2018

Review: Denver Center's "The Great Leap"through March 11th scores with a tale of hoop dreams and hardwood diplomacy by Lisa Kennedy

In Lauren Yee's world premiere production directed by Eric Ting - punctuated with Saul's (BOB ARI) and Manford's (LINDEN TAILOR) bluster - "The Great Leap" asserts a quiet, beautifully unexp…

SOURCE: theknow.denverpost.com at 05:04PM
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Review: Space Theatre comedy “Zoey’s Perfect Wedding” is mostly borrowed and somewhat blue by Lisa Kennedy

"Zoey" has some tart-funny dialog but the cleverness seldom stretches beyond sit-com ease.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:37PM
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Theater review: With extra sugar and dashes of darkness, “Waitress” has its pie and eats it, too by Lisa Kennedy

Desi Oakley brings a big and lush voice to the role of the waitress working in a small Southern town who has dreams of escaping if not her hometown, her brute of a husband, Earl (Nick Bailey…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:18PM
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Review: Emotional walls crumble in Curious Theatre’s “The Luckiest People” by Lisa Kennedy

It's a family drama, so everyone can relate on some level.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:33PM
Friday, April 14, 2017

Review: Exquisite corpses tell all in “The Drowning Girls” at Arvada Center by Lisa Kennedy

A keenly engaging work about three murdered women whose ghostly recollections get at something more vital than a mere whodunit.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:31PM
Saturday, March 18, 2017

“Constellations”: A fine space-time romance at Curious Theatre by Lisa Kennedy

"Constellations" is an engaging and melancholy affair.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:12PM
Thursday, February 23, 2017

“Two Degrees” at the Jones Theatre parallels climate change, a life’s meltdown by Lisa Kennedy

It won't change the course of your politics, but "Two Degrees" harbors an undeniable emotional resonance.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:24PM
Thursday, February 16, 2017

It’s time to get your Greek on at Boulder and Denver theaters by Lisa Kennedy

Oh ye citizens of area metropoles, it is time to get your Greek on.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:48PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Movie Review: Tim Sutton’s “Dark Night” sheds little light on Aurora theater shooting by Lisa Kennedy

The writer-director made a film that is cinematically striking but also maddeningly superior. We Coloradans tend to be prickly about films that take mass shootings as their “inspiration.”

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:30AM
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Cherry Creek Theatre gets new digs inside the Mizel Arts and Culture Center by Lisa Kennedy

The magic carpet ride has come to an end -- and a new adventure has begun.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:12PM
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Emma Stone on “La La Land,” Damien Chazelle and the broken shark by Lisa Kennedy

Interviewers have been asking Emma Stone for audition horror stories ever since “La La Land” first began wowing audiences at the Venice Film Festival in August. (It opens Friday.) And wh…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:00AM
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Denver Center Theatre Company gets new associate artistic director by Lisa Kennedy

In her new role, Garrett will work closely with the company's artistic team.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:01PM
Friday, September 23, 2016

Theater review: “Glass Menagerie” at Ricketson by Lisa Kennedy

A melancholy and still potent mix of compassion and judgment.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:58AM
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Theater review: Carol King’s “Beautiful” has a full-circle sweetness by Lisa Kennedy

The saga of one of the 20th century’s most successful pop songwriters was spun into “Beautiful: The Carol King Musical” and has a full-circle sweetness. The national tour of the Tony-n…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:39PM
Friday, June 17, 2016

“All the Rage” explores anger and compassion by Lisa Kennedy

Actor-playwright Martin Moran returns to his hometown this week with his book “All the Rage: a Quest” (Beacon Press), a deeply personal yet expansive exploration of anger — but also o…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:47AM
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

DeVotchKa Adds an Indie Touch to ‘Sweeney Todd’ by Lisa Kennedy

The Colorado-based band with a fondness for accordion and mandolin has tweaked Stephen Sondheim’s diabolically crafted musical.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PM
Friday, July 31, 2015

Review: Phamaly Theatre Company's dark and chilling "Cabaret" by Lisa Kennedy

There was a nightclub in Weimar-era Berlin called The Blue Stocking. Soldiers wounded during World War I would hook up there with prostitutes who might be missing an arm or a leg.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:28AM
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Colorado actor on the rise: Ben Bonenfant by Lisa Kennedy

Last summer actor Ben Bonenfant took to the stage as Prince Hal in Colorado Shakespeare Festival's productions of "Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2." Now the handsome 26-year-old can be found r…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:52AM
Friday, July 17, 2015

Phamaly Theater Company's strides to be tops in artistry and advocacy by Lisa Kennedy

When "Cabaret" opens Saturday at the Space Theatre downtown, actors Garrett Zuercher and Daniel Traylor will play the emcee of Berlin's Kit Kat Klub.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:05AM
Friday, July 10, 2015

Curious Theatre team at midpoint in an innovative live trilogy by Lisa Kennedy

Actors Damion Hoover, Cajardo Rameer Lindsey and Laurence Curry sit in the Curious Theatre sanctuary — the bar off the balcony of the converted Church on Acoma Street — t…

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:24AM
Friday, July 3, 2015

Review: Cirque du Soleil's "Kurios" wows in Denver by Lisa Kennedy

Okay, let's just get this out of the way. Ooh. Ahh. Whoa. Zowee.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:44PM
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Producing "Othello" for Colorado Shakespeare Festival's audience by Lisa Kennedy

Yes, a thousand times yes, William Shakepeare's "Othello" is about race and otherness.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:13PM
Friday, June 26, 2015

Review: "Pinter Early & Late" at Germinal Stage by Lisa Kennedy

Some local theaters tweak their artistic mission or even revise it. And I'm all for change and challenge.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:46AM
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Theater review: Edge gives Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy" area premiere by Lisa Kennedy

Nora Ephron's final play, "Lucky Guy" — getting its regional premiere at Lakewood's Edge Theater Company — recounts the rise of newspaper columnist Mike McAlary.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:30AM
Friday, June 19, 2015

Denver Center, Arvada Center, Buntport at top of Henry Award nominees by Lisa Kennedy

Thursday, the Colorado Theatre Guild announced nominees for the 2015 Henry Awards. The region's two biggest theaters were recognized for their seasons.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:49PM
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Theater review: Mining the best in "Brighton Beach Memoirs" by Lisa Kennedy

In Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical play "Brighton Beach Memoirs" — at Golden's Miners Alley Playhouse through June 28 — a family occupies a crowded Brooklyn, N.Y., home.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:10PM
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Curious Theatre Company honors former Mayor Wellington and Wilma Webb by Lisa Kennedy

Wellington and Wilma Webb are hardly strangers to the public's gaze.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:52AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards