Lisa Kennedy

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Lisa Kennedy

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysThe streets of Herat, Afghanistan, are paved not with gold but with scrolling code in the spirited drama “Rule Breakers.” Teacher and startup owner Roya Mahboob believes in the transformative possibilities of computers.

2 months ago | denverpost.com | Lisa Kennedy

The subtly clever ending of Sandy Rustin’s comedy “The Suffragette’s Murder” is sure to resonate with film fans of the late 1930s, referencing the 1939 version of the big-screen adaptation of “The Women.” Like that film, this play riffs on gender politics, but in the mid-1800s when they were beginning to first take hold. The play takes place on the morning of July 5, 1857, nine years after the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls.

2 months ago | denverpost.com | Lisa Kennedy

“The Reservoir” is a memory play. It is also a memory-loss play. The dance between the two is at the heart of Jake Brasch’s semi-autobiographical dramatic comedy about a college student who, kicked out of his theater program in New York for alcohol abuse, returns to Colorado and finds that his declining grandparents may be his lifeline. The most laudable ambitions of “The Reservoir” aren’t in Josh’s addiction tale, however; much of the nattering self-regard rings familiar.

2 months ago | au.lifestyle.yahoo.com | Lisa Kennedy

Lisa Kennedy3 February 2025 at 4:10 pm·4-min read“Come See Me in the Good Light” director Ryan White has made a documentary that mirrors the way he felt when he first arrived at the home of spoken word artist Andrea Gibson, who has been diagnosed with incurable ovarian cancer, and their spouse, poet Megan Falley. Like their greeting, the documentary comes as an unexpected and welcoming invitation to stay awhile, even play awhile.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Lisa Kennedy

The upstate New York high schoolers at the heart of “Middletown” hint at what the Breakfast Club crew might have been had they shared a purpose beyond sulky rebellion. In 1991, teacher Fred Isseks created a way for his students to channel both their curiosity and their rightly contrarian impulses in an elective called Electronic English.