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Lisa Kennedy
Denver-based freelancer Lisa Kennedy specializes in film and theater.
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Theater review: “The Humans” at Curious Theatre tries too hard at humor
It's a trek from Scranton, Pa., for the guest list in Curious Theatre Company's production of Stephen Karam's Tony-winning "The Humans."

Theater review: Dreams, nightmares collide for soldier in Local Theater Company’s “Paper Cut”
Could a title understate wounds -- physical, national, psychic -- more than that of the war-scarred play "Paper Cut"?

Theater review: “Goooaaaal!” “The Wolves” scores at Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company
The young women depicted in the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's stealthily affecting production of Sarah DeLappe's debut (a Pulitzer finalist) are hardly gentle.

Robert Redford, Hugh Jackman, Emma Stone among stars headed to this year’s Telluride Film Festival
The festival's most unlikely star may well be a fallen Colorado political figure: Gary Hart -- at least by way of Hugh Jackman.

Robert Redford, Hugh Jackman, Emma Stone among stars headed to this year’s Telluride Film Festival
The festival's most unlikely star may well be a fallen Colorado political figure: Gary Hart -- at least by way of Hugh Jackman.

Meet the women with Colorado ties making their marks on indie filmmaking
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...

Meet the women with Colorado ties making their marks on indie filmmaking
Director Chloé Zhao and "The Rider" star Brady Jandreau on location at Pine Ridge, South Dakota. (Courtesy Sony Pictures Classics) It was a fitting introduction. Chloé Zhao, director of the...

Theater review: “Native Gardens” a fun and furious battle of the neighbors at the Denver Center
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 digging in.

Theater review: “Native Gardens” a fun and furious battle of the neighbors at the Denver Center
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 digging in.

Review: Ricketson’s “The Great Leap” scores with a tale of hoop dreams and hardwood diplomacy
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.