396 stories by "Lisa Kennedy"
Bloodied 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" gets sneak preview Saturday
Don't let the handsome production of Tracy Letts' searing family drama "August: Osage County," getting its regional premiere on stage at Boulder's Dairy Center through Sept. 30, seduce you …
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" can be a rather naughty affair. Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek's musical, now onstage at the Arvada Center, even launches an F-bomb.
Director Lou Bellamy is no stranger to the vigorous poetics of the late, great playwright August Wilson, who died in 2003 at the age of 60.
It's possible that not everyone attending Curious Theatre Company's pumped-up production of the wrestling play "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" will be ready to rumble.
Stunt casting has its appeal — that of a box-office bump, no doubt, but also, if an audience is fortunate it comes with more authentic charms.
What a pleasure it is to listen to an actor spin a yarn, especially a performer who make his living on stage. What a pleasure it is to listen to an actor spin a yarn, especially a performer …
Fall's theater season gets a kick from neophyte producers and ambitious new companies taking on critically acclaimed but challenging plays or premiering fresh works by young playwrights.
OK, to call it a smackdown might be pushing it. But the written exchange between playwright Kristoffer Diaz and New York Times theater critic Christopher Isherwood had its moments.
Clad in white shirts and black slacks, the young men who arrive onstage in "The Book of Mormon" had me at "Hello.
Clad in white-shirts and black slacks, the young men who arrive onstage in "The Book of Mormon" had me at "Hello. The clean-cut brigade embodies the slightly cartoonish phrase "bright-eyed …
Pop-culture bad boys turned Broadway luminaries, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are sitting in a place they never expected to be: the lobby of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
A pitfall of seeing a Broadway musical for the first time as a regional premiere put on by a young theater company is that the blemishes of the work are often more glaring.
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course," unless it's Joey, the astonishing creation of South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company and the equine-puppet star of "War Horse."
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course," unless it's Joey, the astonishing creation of South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company and the equine-puppet star of "War Horse.
Tony Award-winning play "War Horse" will be the first Broadway show out of the gate when the Denver Center Attraction's 2013-2014 season kicks off in January.
Tina Packer's intriguing five-part survey of William Shakespeare's female characters, "Women of Will," combines an amiable and thoughtful lecture with scenes from the canon. And the gang is …
Geoffrey Kent is sitting in a quiet Boulder restaurant making a face as he recounts a fall he took during the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's production of the ridiculously pleasurable farce…
It's more than simply hip that "Jersey Boys" begins with a Francophone rapper taking the stage and blowing through a cover of the Four Seasons' 1975 hit "December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)."
The two best reasons to see PHAMALy Theatre Company's production of "Little Shop of Horrors" — about a shy, bumbling florist named Seymour and his increasingly untenable relationship …
During a summer of rebooted fairy princesses storming the multiplexes, it's strange to find how well a theatrical Cinderella holds up compared to Snow White and "Brave's" Merida.
The Colorado Theatre Guild and its brigade of 30 plus Henry Award jurors were clearly seeing red Monday night.
The folk involved with the Tony Award-winning musical "Jersey Boys" — about the coming together and unraveling of the rock 'n' roll super act the Four Seasons — call it "Frankie…
It may be strange to learn that one of the finest moments in Central City Opera's vibrant production of "Oklahoma!
It's the high season for amusement-park pleasures — even, it seems, on stage. Two rides worth the price of their tickets are cheerily whipping around with expert timing.
