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:The Seagull, as staged by Arizona Theatre Company, treats Anton Chekhov's play about love, art and lost youth with the utmost respect. But not with passion, or tenderness, or...
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf was an exotic sight to Broadway theatregoers of 1976: Onstage were black women speaking and dancing to...
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Everything that could have gone wrong did. The puppeteer hadn't shown up. Instead of the five or six friends Lee Breuer was expecting, an audience of 35 adults and children...
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When writers write books, they're published as they've written them. Photographers' photographs are displayed as they've printed them. But playwrights and their plays, which...
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In the world of academia, where many things are taken quite seriously, Gus Edwards is like a breath of fresh air. He talks about how as a kid in the Caribbean he was...
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Just when we thought the people at Actors Lab Arizona were going to change their name to the Six Women With Brain Death--or Expiring Minds Want to Know Theatre Company, they...
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Lee Breuer is pretty sure that if he gathered together 1,700 press agents, gave them each a copy of his bio and asked them to write an ending to his story, not one of them...
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Jaime Ituarte visited New York City for the first time last year. Before he went, his friends gave him the standard tourist warnings about crime. In Ituarte's case, such...
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Its producers describe Psycho Beach Party as "Gidget meets Psycho on the way to Where The Boys Are." Add elements of The Three Faces of Eve, Marnie, and Mommie Dearest...
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"A musical version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame? What next? Hello, Dracula!?"
Really, it's only logical--if not inevitable--that after the successes of The...
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Meatloaf rolled his wheelchair to the very edge of the stage. "We've got to get out of this trap before this decadence saps our wills!" he moaned.
Astonished, I...
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"One stray grain of rice on that slick stage floor, and bang!--you're on your ass," frets Bruce Miles. The producer of the Mill Avenue Theatre's impending live rendition of...
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If you knew Tom Oldendick of Phoenix Little Theatre--a flamboyant type who performs a story rather than tells it--you'd be laughing so hard you'd forget for a moment...
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"TED BUNDY'S CORPSE! EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS INSIDE!" screeched an actual headline from the cover of a recent supermarket scandal rag, trumpeting "the pictures every American wants...
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Zev Bufman's amphitheatre may be yesterday's news, but fallout from the nuking it suffered in north Phoenix is still raining on Councilman Bill Parks.
Come next election...
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There's nothing disturbing about ASU's Lyric Opera Theatre production of The Turn of the Screw. The cast performs competently. The costumes and set work to good...
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Director-choreographer Michael Barnard, who has helmed a disproportionately high percentage of the Valley's most successful theatrical endeavors over the years, rarely takes...
