Freelance writer
Lisa Kennedy
Denver-based freelancer Lisa Kennedy specializes in film and theater.
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Denver’s latest experiential show plunges you into total, stunning darkness
The fuselage shutters and creaks. A flight attendant leans in and whispers âYou are already in the luckiest seat.â Later, you may swear you felt her breath in the pitch-black...

Some stage actors can transform an audience as they transform themselves
Have you ever turned the corner on an actor? After years of watching them, maybe on screen -- or, in this instance, on stage?

Yoga, steel girders and machismo at Vintage Theatre | Theater review
âThe Hombresâ creates fresh space for unexpected amity.

A tainted river runs through it: âCullud wattahâ dives into a water crisis | Theater review
A tainted river runs through it: âCullud wattahâ dives into a water crisis | Theater review

Catamounts shows put the audience at the center of the action
The Boulder company's latest, "Impossible Things," invites you to attend graduation.

Investment bank collapse gets the epic saga treatment at DCPA | Theater review
One can argue the deepest tragedies of the story arenât borne by the people onstage.

“237 Virginia Avenue”: A housing crisis 400 years in the making | Theater review
In playwright David Myersâ â237 Virginia Avenue,â a father and son play a not-always friendly, increasingly freighted game of Monopoly.

Cleo Parker Robinson continues to redefine what âlegacyâ means
Robinson is always talking the talk, walking the walk -- and, yes, dancing the dance.

 âWhere Did We Sit on the Bus?â puts the audience in the Loop at the Denver Center | Theater review
Downstairs in the Singleton Theatre, things are positively loopy. Or rather brilliantly looping, as a young, Latina music-maker sets about crafting a mixed tape of her life in the hip-hop-influenced...

Denver Center’s offbeat “Emma” will delight fans of rom-coms, Austen’s novel
The rhythms of Jane Austenâs novels are so persuasive, their challenges and resolutions so familiar, that playwright Kate Hamill can merrily tease our knowledge again and again in her winking...