396 stories by "Lisa Kennedy"
Tracing circles — that may be one way to describe the goings on at Su Teatro Arts and Culture Center right now.
If ever there was a theatrical form meant to play to the folks in the balcony, it would be the musical. The mantra often appears to be: Go big, brash, extravagant or go home.
Town Hall Arts Center's "Hair " wastes nary a nanosecond before plunging us into the Dionysian waters of James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot's ground-breaking musical.
That Dorothy Gale, what a trouper she's become. In the Boulder's Dinner Theatre show, the girl from Kansas - made indelible by Judy Garland and 1939's movie "The Wizard of Oz," based on the …
Don't blame the stars/victims of the tremendously slight comedy "And Then There Was Nun" — the nuns of the Holy Order of the Sisters of San Andreas.
Planning a trip this summer? Choose your dates carefully - there are more than a few reasons to stick close to home instead. Denver reaches for new heights this season with a brilliant bil…
Mary Tyrone's husband and oldest son are actors. Her youngest is a writer of sorts. With those artistic temperaments butting heads in the living room of their summer house, one might imagin…
As some of the area's most consistently satisfying theaters end their seasons, laughter — bittersweet, cruel or in the case of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's "Bach at Leipzig"
In the fast-growing, fictional Texas town of Harrison, the two elders in "Dividing the Estate" sit in the parlor of the Gordon family home, feet propped up, resting before a big family dinn…
When French playwright Yasmina Reza's bitterly comedic drama "God of Carnage" (translated by Christopher Hampton) went to Broadway, the living-room skirmish made itself at home for 452 perfo…
There are many more nos than yeses uttered in the Edge Theatre Company's production of "The Shadow Box." Yet by the end of Michael Cristofer's bittersweet drama about terminal illness, the…
The title of Buntport Theater Company's latest — "A Knight to Remember" — is a clever if mildly hazardous title.
"A musical about love.' " Sigh. At first, the tagline for "The Color Purple" seems so, well, corny. So what a revelation the boundless and deep production at the Aurora Fox proves to b…
To tell the story of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood properly, director Marcia Milgrom Dodge wanted a hill. On that, she said, she could not budge.
My parents' church had a soloist whose wavering singing sounded like that of the Cowardly Lion when he holds the "king of the for-rest" notes.
Jon Robin Baitz's family drama "Other Desert Cities" wastes no time acquainting us with the Wyeths.
For one final weekend, something masterful is taking place at Boulder's Dairy Center for the Arts. Which is rich, given that one of the themes of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's produ…
It is 2 in the afternoon on a Friday in the south of France, and Pablo Picasso is taking a bath. He uses an oven mitt as a washcloth. He smiles at us. He cheerily pontificates.
Jane Austen wrote about baseball — or at least a game akin to it. So we're not taking liberties when we say that with the world premiere of "Sense & Sensibility The Musical…
A priest's homily gets a little personal. And though it's unlikely his parishioners recognize the serrated edge in his cautionary tale about gossip, the audience for "Doubt, a Parable" sure…
Long before a grizzled Don Quixote launches into a rumbling rendition of the indelible ballad "The Impossible Dream," the Arvada Center has already achieved the improbable task.
Clinnesha Sibley's drama "Tell Martha Not to Moan" opens with octogenarians Martha and Leroy readying to attend the 40th commemoration of the 1967 Detroit riots.
"The greatest piece of writing by an American playwright under 30 in a generation or more" stated the Chicago Tribune on the occasion of a 2010 production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's "Brother…
A night spent at a honkytonk bar, listening to a has-been country singer hardly sounds like a meta outing.
The three actors entrusted with introducing local audiences t o the work of the much-heralded young playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney sit in the back room of the converted church that is home…
