47 stories by "Lisa Kennedy, The Know"
This one will tug at your heartstrings - or banjo strings. Or mandolin ...
There's so much great theater on the bill this fall.
At Fairfield Elementary, a young, white teacher, Ms. Kaminski, has a lot of ideas for celebrating February's Black History Month, each dicier than the next.
Grab your bag of popcorn and head to the Newman Center this week.
Set in the 1870s, "Anna Karenina" is the story of two romances, entwined and vexed.
Ten-year-old Sam and her parents are the fractured family at the heart of Donnetta Lavinia Grays' loving, richly performed drama, receiving its world premiere at the Denver Center's Ricketso…
It was a fitting introduction. Chloé Zhao, director of the Indian-cowboys tale "The Rider" (now playing at the Mayan Theater), was standing on the lobby stairs of the Chuck Jones Cinema…
Different approaches to gardening are merely the seedlings for what will bloom into a timely tussle about entitlement and the American Dream, ethnicity and discrimination, compromise and dig…
The history-teasing "The Great Leap" takes an imaginative vault over the decades through the story of a hungry Chinese-American 17-year-old basketball player.
The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's production poses resonant questions about the relationship of powerful patrons and artists, of imperial (and imperious) leaders and regular folk.
"Detroit '67" focuses on a tumultuous time in black America, but it's more than a lament.
Whether you wish to be be happily haunted or cheekily taunted or some quite other state -- there's likely a show for that.
The one-woman play explores the life of Denver's own Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar.
There's high-brow, middle-brow and low. And then there's the often arched-brow shenanigans of Buntport.
In an effort to teach a lesson about opposites, a high school teacher opens a blackboard to reveal a triptych reproduction of Jacques-Louis David's "The Intervention of the Sabine Women."
The introductions of its four characters at the start of "Smart People" are vivid, swift, instructive.
The fall foliage in "Birds of North America" will outlast Colorado's own blast of color by a few weeks. Scenic designer Tina Anderson's set " a small shed off to one side, a brace of trees b…
It's hard to envision an audience member slinking out of this romp.
The historical comedy opens the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's 12th season.
Admired for its consistently rich production values, the Arvada Center has gone beautifully spare with its season opener.
The Colorado-based Phamaly Theatre Company has burnished its artistic reputation by selecting shows that resonate -- intellectually and emotionally -- with the many facets of disability.
Many have read Hamlet's melancholy and brooding inaction as feminine traits. A female Hamlet makes the play seem less entangled with ambivalence.
