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Thursday, November 21, 2024

“Confederates” takes us two steps forward, one back, at Curious | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

What, I wonder, would you want to know about the latest production by the city’s doggedly bold Curious Theatre Company?

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:12AM
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Songs his mother taught him: In “Avaaz,” it’s the joy that endures | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

Playwright Micheal Shayan as his mother Roya welcomes you to Tehran-geles, CA in the one-mother show “Avaaz” at the Denver Center.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:24AM
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Immersive play about the infamous Ma Barker Gang lands at a Westminster farm by Lisa Kennedy

Kismet’s a thing -- especially in theater. The first immersive performance that local playwright Jeffrey Neuman ever attended was “Wild Party” in 2016. The slinky, fun retrofitting of …

SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:24PM
Thursday, October 10, 2024

See “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” on stage before it becomes a movie by Lisa Kennedy

The play explores the gulf between immigrant parents and their first-gen children.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:54AM
Friday, October 4, 2024

Two compelling plays to see this month in Denver and Boulder by Lisa Kennedy

Set in earlier eras, these powerful dramas engage our political moment.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:48AM
Friday, September 27, 2024
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Keeping POTUS alive isn’t as easy as it sounds in Curious Theatre’s season 27 opener | Theater review by Lisa Kennedy

The All-Female “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive ” is timely and a surprising respite.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:54AM
Monday, August 26, 2024

Subscribers are lifeline for local theater companies — and not just the DCPA by Lisa Kennedy

Consider these off-the-beaten-path Denver area theater subscriptions.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:48AM
Friday, August 16, 2024

The Catamounts love to put on plays in unexpected places; the latest is a library in Thornton by Lisa Kennedy

"After the End" is charming immersive play -- and it's free to attend.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AM
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Phamaly takes on the dance-demanding musical “A Chorus Line” | Theater preview by Lisa Kennedy

“We definitely wanted something that would cause a bit of a stir, something that would get back to that rebellious nature that Phamaly originally had."

SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AM
Thursday, August 1, 2024

“We the People” builds on tradition both artistic and democratic by Lisa Kennedy

It doesn't get much better for a theater company aiming to engage its community.

SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:59AM
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

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 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime