396 stories by "Lisa Kennedy"
"Sister Act," the 1992 comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg, wasn't exactly a good movie. But lord, did it make a joyful, pleasing noise.
As Mike Hartman and Lauren Klein go on stage as Linda Loman and her burdened husband, Willy Loman, in the Denver Center Theatre Company's staging of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," it…
Amy Herzog would be the first to tell you there's an explanatory density to her politically astute, personal drama "After the Revolution," having its regional premiere at Curious Theatre thr…
Even more than most classic musicals, "Camelot" leans heavily on its leads to give robust, tender, soaring voice to its story. In fact, the ensemble for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's…
Rod Lansberry has embraced this dilemma before — and how. Last season, the Arvada Center artistic director headed into theater's cavernous vault, dug out and dusted off "Man of La M…
No doubt about it: "Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical" arrives at the Buell Theatre dressed to thrill. In 2011, the feathered, sequined, bewigged spectacle won the Tony Award for b…
Theater's equivalent to the "No Pain, No Gain" adage might be something along the lines of "without risk, there's no reward." Which is why this prelude to the fall theater season includes a …
"Watershed (Part II: Soiled)" begins with vivid grace in the desiccated farmland of the Dust Bowl years and concludes in the present, with beachgoers slathering and blathering and hardly hee…
At Saturday's performance of "Metamorphoses," the thoughtful folk at the Aurora Fox provided theatergoers in the first rows with the thin plastic ponchos you might expect passengers on Niaga…
In a sense, Vintage Theatre's production of the Tony-winning "In the Heights" has returned composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda's street-savvy work to its roots. This is not entirely a good …
Peter Handke's aggressive and eloquent play "Offending the Audience" - at Germinal Stage Denver through Aug. 25 - strikes a challenging tone that puts one in mind of another smartly contrari…
Tragedy or romance? If there is a debate about which genre Shakespeare's later play "Cymbeline" occupies, Colorado Springs' TheatreWorks has weighed in with its annual - and delightful - Sha…
A women on the lam from her marriage meets a jilted alcoholic with a wooden barrel headed to Niagara Falls.
Let's start with hope. For Senior Housing Options' play/fundraiser, hope takes root offstage.
During a post-performance talkback after the emotionally demanding one-woman show "The Year of Magical Thinking" — at Fort Collins' Bas Bleu Theatre through Sunday — actress W…
Artie Shaughnessy plays the piano (not so well) and composes songs (even worse). As portrayed by Tom Auclair in the Edge Theatre Company's well-performed production of John Guare's "The Hous…
The globe-trotting performance piece "17 Border Crossings" — at Buntport through Saturday — could easily have been part of the recently concluded Biennial of the Americas.
The Phamaly Theatre Company's "Fiddler on the Roof" soars. Directed by Steve Wilson and featuring a wise and measured turn by Mark Dissette, this production delivers a rousingly tender versi…
What! What the?! So went my reaction last month when I saw that the Denver Center Theatre Company's world premiere of "Sense & Sensibility The Musical" wasn't nominated for the outstand…
Sophia Hummel sits in Denver's Rooster & Moon cafe wearing a delicate silver necklace and a peasant-style blouse. The blouse seems fitting, given the 19-year-old's role as the titular fiddle…
With "Curtains," the Arvada Center isn't merely aiming to leave its audience laughing. Whistling and wanting more is more like it.
The title of D onald Margulies' drama "Collected Stories" is descriptive but hardly does justice to his beautifully layered take on the six-year relationship between author Ruth Steiner
When ex-convict Jean Valjean and a Lower East Side sweetie known as Kate Monster take the stage at New York's Minskoff Theatre on Monday night, it will not be their first time on Broadway.
Brothers and sisters, can he get a witness? Can the blind man once a king, now accompanied in his exile by his loyal daughter, get a witness — a theater full of them, in fact?
With "Dust Storm," Theatre Esprit Asia gets its inaugural gambit just right, delivering a work that is modest and ambitious, spare and emotionally textured.
