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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Theater: 2013 theater season begins with promising lineup by Lisa Kennedy

While January may be catch-up month for filmgoers bent on winning Oscar pools, fresh local theater offerings hurtle into the New Year like a pent-up thoroughbred dashing head-long for the fi…

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Friday, December 21, 2012

2012 on STAGE and SCREEN: Colorado's big stage and screen moments include "Book of Mormon," Sie FilmCenter gift by Lisa Kennedy

2012 was a defining year in Colorado culture.It was a year of dazzling art exhibits. Thrilling musical moments. Triumphant theater. Inspiring filmmaking. Galvanizing television events. Bril…

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Theater review: "Sound of Music" offers a holiday trip to the alps with Maria and the Von Trapps by Lisa Kennedy

How do you not like a problem like Maria? Ever since Julie Andrews made Rodgers and Hammerstein's heroine indelible and yearly TV broadcasts made her part of our family, Maria's journey …

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Theater review: A tap-happy "42nd Street" gets us slap-happy by Lisa Kennedy

Boulder's Dinner Theatre's production of the musical comedy "42nd Street" proves that you don't need tinsel, Christmas carols and faux snow to please an audience during the holiday season.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Ho-ho-hold on: From movies to theater, culture sees the hard and jolly by Lisa Kennedy

It was a magical snowfall, a too-long-deferred bliss. It was the kind of beautiful fib one finds only in a theater.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Theater review: Denver Center's "White Christmas" celebrates with a blizzard of song, dance by Lisa Kennedy

Snowflakes are drifting gently down at the Buell Theatre until Christmas Eve. And it makes for a very special effect indeed. But then the Denver Center Theatre Company's "Irving Berlin's Wh…

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Theater review: Arvada's "Miracle on 34th Street" offers reasons not to stay home for the holidays by Lisa Kennedy

It's not the dance of sugar plum fairies that's required of Christmas season theater fare. No, the challenge is to pull off something akin to a minuet of the familiar and the special, the se…

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Theater review: Farce and "what-ifs" abound in "When We Are Married" by Lisa Kennedy

The sitting room in J.B Priestley's farce "When We Are Married" is spacious. It needs to be. Alderman Joseph Helliwell's parlor will be the site of many an entrance and exit, some fast, so…

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Friday, November 23, 2012

Spider Woman rules Vintage's revival of the Tony-winng musical by Lisa Kennedy

Megan Van De Hey doesn't mean to upstage her colleagues in Vintage Theatre's production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," running through Dec. 2.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Spider Woman rules Vintage's revival of the Tony-winng musical by Lisa Kennedy

Megan Van De Hey doesn't mean to upstage her colleagues in Vintage Theatre's production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," running through Dec.

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Theater review: Fleet dialog, nimble acting in "Time Stands Still" by Lisa Kennedy

 Playwright Donald Margulies has a gift for authentic gab. This talent served his Pulitzer Prize-winning marital drama, "Dinner With Friends," well.

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Theater review: Fleet dialog, nimble acting in post-wartime "Time Stands Still" by Lisa Kennedy

Playwright Donald Margulies has a gift for authentic gab. This talent served his Pulitzer Prize-winning marital drama, "Dinner With Friends," well.

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Theater director Christy Montour-Larson continues good year with opening of "Time Stands Still" by Lisa Kennedy

Feast or famine. That might describe the rhythm of work for a theater director in this town, says Christy Montour-Larson.

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Theater review: Buntport's "Sweet Tooth" is a blast of intellectual nitrous oxide by Lisa Kennedy

Granted, the opening of the delirious musical "Sweet Tooth" and the arrival of a newly gussied up Blu-ray of "Sunset Boulevard" to my mailbox are purely coincidental. Yet, I can't help b…

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Friday, October 19, 2012

"Red Hot Patriot" channels Molly Ivins, takes center stage at LIDA by Lisa Kennedy

Broads. Simply put, there aren't enough of them. Similar to dames — and there is nothing like one, to quote Rodgers and Hammerstein — they are "full-figured gals" metaphoricall…

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Theater review: Boulder's Dinner Theatre makes a happy, racy meal of "Avenue Q" by Lisa Kennedy

It takes little time into "Avenue Q" — the charmingly wanton, puppet-populated musical by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty — to see why music man Lopez, and "The

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Theater review: Cherry Creek Theatre's "Visiting Mr. Green" a two-person gem by Lisa Kennedy

In 1997, actor Eli Wallach reigned off-Broadway as the title character in Jeff Baron's two-person drama "Visiting Mr. Green."

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Theater review: An ace cast makes a trip to "Memphis" a necessary pleasure by Lisa Kennedy

As soon as Felicia Boswell belts out the first number in "Memphis," it's easy to concede the hype, embrace it and even add to it.

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Theater reviews: Tent shows and Andrew Jackson's wild rise on display in two plays by Lisa Kennedy

A gritty rock musical about the nation's seventh president and an old-school, agitprop affair that teases present-day issues of immigration might not appear to have much in common.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

"Memphis" stars Felicia Boswell on singing, faith and a brave cousin by Lisa Kennedy

"Memphis" opens Tuesday at the Buell. And the national tour of the Tony-winning musical about a white disc jockey whose love of black music leads him to challenge (in more ways than one) th…

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Theater review: The farce is strong in Mark Twain's "Is He Dead?" by Lisa Kennedy

When the curtain rises on the second act of the cross-dressing comedy "Is He Dead?" — written by a fellow named Mark Twain and adapted with verve by David Ives — our hero has b…

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Dramaturg Doug Langworthy has the best theater gig with the mystery name by Lisa Kennedy

While Athos, Porthos and Aramis cross swords and teach young hero d'Artagnan a thing or two in "The Three Musketeers," now onstage at the Denver Center, a central player in bringing

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

"Elijah: An Adventure" marks Local Theater Company's maiden voyage by Lisa Kennedy

At the start of "Elijah: An Adventure," black-clad figures appear on stage. They look almost frozen in the waves of "bon voyages" that those on shore direct to loved ones on an ocean liner…

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Theater review: Denver Center's return to August Wilson's "Fences" triumphs by Lisa Kennedy

During the rousing curtain call for the Denver Center Theatre Company's revival of August Wilson's "Fences," it was hard not to glean in lead David Alan Anderson's face a kind of lingering…

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Bloodied 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" gets sneak preview Saturday by Lisa Kennedy

Bloodied 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" gets sneak preview Saturday

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Theater review: Boulder premiere of "August: Osage County" keeps edge and damaged wit by Lisa Kennedy

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 …

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Theater review: Arvada Center's "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" lewd and amusing by Lisa Kennedy

"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.

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Thursday, September 13, 2012

"Fences" director Lou Bellamy recalls teaming with playwright legend August Wilson by Lisa Kennedy

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.

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Curious Theatre Company stages a smackdown with wrestling play "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" by Lisa Kennedy

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.

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Theater review: Christopher Sieber makes "La Cage aux Folles" sing by Lisa Kennedy

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.

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Friday, August 31, 2012

Actor Christopher Sieber has looked at life from both "La Cage aux Folles" star roles now by Lisa Kennedy

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 …

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