Email Author Jim Lillie

2000 Stories by Jim Lillie

• Hopelessly Devoted

  published December 14, 2000

  About ten minutes after Stop Kiss begins, we learn that its two main characters, a pair of young women oblivious to their... More >>

• Miracles Happen

  published December 14, 2000

  It's hard to believe that what happens in Miracle on 34th Street bears any resemblance to everyday life. But as the Nomad Theatre's... More >>

• Season's Bleatings

  published December 7, 2000

  Its title is a clever play on Tantalus, the high-priced Greek epic that effectively displaced the Denver Center's annual presentation of... More >>

• One-Act Wonders

  published November 30, 2000

  Anton Chekhov is as famous for writing pause-filled comedies about frustrated dreamers as Eugene O'Neill is for penning dramas with more stage... More >>

• A True Blockbuster

  published November 30, 2000

  A product of its time that proved powerful enough to transcend the tumult of ensuing decades, The Fantasticks opened at New York's... More >>

• Tragedy for the Ages

  published November 23, 2000

  Antigone's two brothers, both sons of Oedipus, have died in each other's arms while fighting for future control of their uncle Creon's throne. In... More >>

• Strutting Their Stuff

  published November 23, 2000

  The pacing lags when it should accelerate, and the actors' delivery never matches the dialogue's sharp brilliance, but the Upstart Crow Theatre... More >>

• Just Us Girls

  published November 16, 2000

  Of the thirty-plus songs that constitute the musical revue Jerry¹s Girls, only one proves to be more than a display of vocal... More >>

• Missed Manners

  published November 16, 2000

  British playwright Alan Ayckbourn is often regarded as England's version of Neil Simon. But while both master craftsmen have an affinity for... More >>

• Flight From Life

  published November 9, 2000

  Perched atop a high, bare platform and isolated in a pool of bluish-white light, a search-and-rescue pilot talks about why she's devoted herself... More >>

• Money for Nothing

  published November 9, 2000

  As wrongheaded as it is well-intentioned, CityStage Ensemble's world-premiere production of Bad Money flounders from the very first... More >>

• A Boy's Life

  published November 2, 2000

  Eleven-year-old Miguel knows all too well that his journey into manhood will begin only when his father takes him on the family's annual... More >>

• Full of It

  published November 2, 2000

  Hampered by pacing problems and a couple of lackluster opening scenes, the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of The... More >>

• In the Name of the Gods

  published October 26, 2000

  For much of the past year, pundits the world over have wondered whether John Barton's Tantalus would be a millennium-defining hit or... More >>

• Re-enter, Stage Right

  published October 12, 2000

  Dan Hiester remembers the days when he dealt with exhaustion by sleeping round the clock after completing the run of each show. Then, somewhat... More >>

• Love's Labor Lost

  published October 12, 2000

  The truth-telling games and litany of deceptions that litter Conundrum State Productions' version of The Maiden¹s Prayer might... More >>

• Poetry in Commotion

  published October 5, 2000

  Poets are often harbingers of truth who rail about society's ills from the relative safety of life's cheap seats. They weather worldly rejection... More >>

• Against the Tide

  published October 5, 2000

  Mabel Tidings Bigelow has lived most of her ninety years contemplating her choices in life. The feisty Massachusetts salt aspired at an early age... More >>

• Ire of the Beholder

  published September 28, 2000

  Cracking wise about this or that presidential candidate doesn't seem so insulting in a country united in the belief that all politicians are... More >>

• Show Buzz

  published September 21, 2000

  What role does the artist play in a world that equates fame with ability? Are creative types required to defer to the paying public's likes and... More >>

• A Company Man

  published September 21, 2000

  When David Loper has trouble retrieving a crucial computer file for a valued client, he does what any office drone would -- he decides to pull a... More >>

• A Tantalizing Thought

  published September 14, 2000

  He's produced some 65 Broadway shows, served as a boardmember and the American producer for Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and... More >>

• The Mouths of Babes

  published August 31, 2000

  Fresh from a mid-morning rehearsal break, several members of Xpressions, a local troupe made up of youths between the ages of thirteen and... More >>

• Coal Miner's Fodder

  published August 31, 2000

  When last we left The Kentucky Cycle, the ill-fated Rowen and Talbert clans were embroiled in the same sort of inbred conflict that... More >>

• A Kentucky Derby

  published August 24, 2000

  The time commitment required to see all of The Kentucky Cycle shouldn't deter area theatergoers from sampling Robert Schenkkan's... More >>