Email Author Julie Peterson

2013 Stories by Julie Peterson

• Bittersweet Symphony

  published May 9, 2013

  Classical music fans often care who’s conducting the orchestra. This is why Phoenix Symphony’s current season featured Arizona... More >>

• Heavenly Creatures

  published May 9, 2013

  Not long after Sunset Boulevard showed how dangerous it is to orbit a declining film diva, Tennessee Williams wrote Sweet Bird of... More >>

• Footwork

  published April 25, 2013

  MarioCo.Dance, founded a few years back by Tracy Marion, is a supremely athletic jazz-dance troupe, but its principals can’t keep their... More >>

• Class Mates

  published April 18, 2013

  Sure, some of us treat every human soul with equal respect and regard. But when it comes to floating the romantic boat, all bets are off --... More >>

• Tough Love

  published April 18, 2013

  Though we miss Planet Earth Theatre, we derive comfort from Stray Cat Theatre’s mounting of PET’s 1997-98 hit, Chicks with... More >>

• Brit Pack

  published April 11, 2013

  Our city’s one of just a handful to host National Theatre Live, a film series of current hot tickets from the London stage institution.... More >>

• Sister Act

  published April 11, 2013

  Arizona State University’s Lyric Opera Theatre knows that you hanker for a contemporary-yet-classic American musical that showcases five... More >>

• Wedding Mess

  published April 4, 2013

  Departing from canon’s a time-honored practice. Pierre Beaumarchais’ 1778 non-musical The Marriage of Figaro was banned in... More >>

• Eating Up

  published April 4, 2013

  The Scottsdale Culinary Festival’s now old enough to run for president. Its powerhouse six-day campaign kicks off Tuesday, April 9, with... More >>

• Biggest Losers

  published March 28, 2013

  To prepare for a summer spent feeling as though you’re wasting your life, there’s nothing like seeing a play about people who spend... More >>

• Bright Guys

  published March 28, 2013

  Plays by Neil Simon are often maligned because amateurs regard them as invulnerable fortresses of entertainment value, resulting in some... More >>

• Strong Showing

  published March 21, 2013

  Though Aspen and Santa Fe are okay places to visit if you have to, we’re pretty stoked to be on the limited tour schedule of Aspen Santa... More >>

• Song Stress

  published March 21, 2013

  Hate musical theater? Check out Theater Works’ The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), which heaps ridicule on Rodgers, Hammerstein,... More >>

• Thoroughly Mid-Century Modern

  published March 14, 2013

  Reeling from life's complexity, we ponder our place in time. Should more than just our coffee table be vintage? In Jordan Harrison's Maple... More >>

• Adam and Eve on a Raft

  published March 7, 2013

  Life's perfect moments sometimes announce themselves in small and subtle ways. If you're an underpaid, middle-aged waitress, like the heroine... More >>

• Deep Dishing

  published March 7, 2013

  You think there's nothing special about Jim Belushi and the Chicago Board of Comedy bringing their brand of non-stand-up comedy to Stand Up... More >>

• Songs Remain The Same

  published February 28, 2013

  The plot of Il Trovatore is enough to get almost anyone to go to the opera. Without giving too much away, there's true love, vengeance,... More >>

• Power of Myth

  published February 28, 2013

  Is "I am not an animal!" what most of us remember about Victorian Englishman Joseph Merrick, a.k.a. the Elephant Man? Or the myth that Michael... More >>

• Puppet Love

  published February 21, 2013

  We've sort of asked Class 6 Theatre why it's called that, but we remain in the dark. Most likely, it's not named after a Norwegian train (this... More >>

• Analyze This

  published February 21, 2013

  If you're Sigmund Freud, it's only fair (if not mandatory) that writers speculate about the depths of your psyche. You can't swing a cat... More >>

• Family Guy

  published February 14, 2013

  Close counts in more than just horseshoes and hand grenades. Being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama counts big time -- the nominating... More >>

• Many Splendored Things

  published February 7, 2013

  "Multidisciplinary" probably wasn't coined to describe enjoying cocktails and buff acrobats while getting our highbrow culture on, but we're... More >>

• Rude Awakening

  published January 31, 2013

  Ubu Roi (which basically translates as "King Turd") is one of the weirdest, grossest, funniest French plays of all the famously weird,... More >>

• Fairly Regal

  published January 31, 2013

  Ideally, when a play's scary, it's for the audience and on purpose. Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of Sunset Boulevard is scary for... More >>

• Trash Talk

  published January 24, 2013

  Plastic bottles don't pollute the environment; people pollute the environment. So it makes perfect sense to us that a cute little plastic... More >>