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Lisa Kennedy
Denver-based freelancer Lisa Kennedy specializes in film and theater.
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Review: Emotional walls crumble in Curious Theatre’s “The Luckiest People”
It's a family drama, so everyone can relate on some level.

“Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins came of creative age at Telluride Film Festival
He has been a fest ring-master — one of the guys or gals greeting audiences and introducing movies — for years.

Review: Exquisite corpses tell all in “The Drowning Girls” at Arvada Center
A keenly engaging work about three murdered women whose ghostly recollections get at something more vital than a mere whodunit.

“Constellations”: A fine space-time romance at Curious Theatre
"Constellations" is an engaging and melancholy affair.

“Two Degrees” at the Jones Theatre parallels climate change, a life’s meltdown
It won't change the course of your politics, but "Two Degrees" harbors an undeniable emotional resonance.

Who will win on Oscar night? Here are our picks.
Here’s some handicapping that might help you fill out your ballots.

Who will win on Oscar night? Here are our picks.
Here’s some handicapping that might help you fill out your ballots.

It’s time to get your Greek on at Boulder and Denver theaters
Oh ye citizens of area metropoles, it is time to get your Greek on.

Movie Review: Tim Sutton’s “Dark Night” sheds little light on Aurora theater shooting
The writer-director made a film that is cinematically striking but also maddeningly superior. We Coloradans tend to be prickly about films that take mass shootings as their “inspiration.”

Cherry Creek Theatre gets new digs inside the Mizel Arts and Culture Center
The magic carpet ride has come to an end -- and a new adventure has begun.