Lisa Kron

...Playhouse, 4201 Hooker St., 303-433-4343 or denvervic.com "Well" In this form-bending autobiographical mother-daughter tale, Lisa Kron shares the details of her middle-age life. Some details are exaggerated or improvised, but...

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...Theatre Company's "Well." Photos by Terry Shapiro. A lot of fancy jargon has been tossed around to describe "Well," playwright Lisa Kron's unusual stage memoir: Meta-theatrical. Pirandellian. Deconstructionist. Sticky. Little. Wicket.

In this article: Well, Boulder, Chay Yew, and Charles Dickens

...and Family History, Opens at Denver Center Kenneth Jones, Playbill.com Kenneth Jones, playbill.com - 1 hr 53 mins ago Lisa Kron's autobiographical play, Well, a seriocomic exploration of wellness, illness and the relationships between...

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Well stars Kate Levy and Kathleen M. Brady Lisa Kron's autobiographical play, Well, a seriocomic exploration of wellness, illness and the relationships between adult children and their parents, opens in its Denver premiere Nov. 12 at...

In this article: Well, Absurd Person Singular, Alan Ayckbourn, and Jayne Houdyshell

...to the projects that challenge me the most and also where I can work with people I respect. Houdyshell: Playing Ann Kron in Lisa Kron's "Well" was a great privilege because I was representing a real person. Irwin: There is a...

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...you prefer to hear it from the source? In "2.5 Minute Ride,'' now at New Repertory Theatre, Adrianne Krstansky stands in for Lisa Kron, who in this early monologue (it premiered in 1999, seven years before Kron's Broadway hit "Well'')...

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...her life Speaking of plays with different performers, New Repertory Theatre opens its fourth season of Downstage @ New Rep with Lisa Kron's one-woman show "2.5 Minute Ride. '' The play looks at the Jewish family experience, from Kron's...

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Kron was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She jokes in one of her plays that her life began on her parents' trip to Europe: "I was conceived in Venice, you know. (Well, not actually in Venice, but in the nearby town of Mestra where hotels are a...

In this article: Well, New York City, Kalamazoo College, Ben Brantley, Judaism, London, and Ann Arbor, Michigan

On Broadway, where it was much praised, Lisa Kron's autobiographical play about her resentment of her mother could count on respect from the arbiters of its self-infatuated and emotionally confused culture. In Eve Leigh's production, this...

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You want to know how good a daughter Lisa Kron is? She writes a show about her and her mother and allows her mother to steal it. "To allow," however, is a highly suspect verb in the lexicon of "Well," Kron's playfully experimental and...

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