Neil Simon

White Collar Job

Family Feuds

We Have a Few Reservations with The Dinner Party

Fringe Benefits

Provocative fest brings the outer edge in

Curtains: Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs at Starlight Community Theater in Anthem

Patty Kaufman, itsUphoto From left to right: Jeff Bennett, Gig Kyriazi, Maria Hatzigeorgalis, and John Rose play the plucky Jerome family in Brighton Beach Memoirs Starlight Community Theater is in its fourth season in Anthem, a planned community in nooooorth Phoenix. As in 39 thousand north ... More >>

Gag Reflex

Fast-paced improv troupe channels . . . Neil Simon?

The Oddest Couple

Neil Simon/Fellini joint rates an 81/2

The Play's the Thing

A preview of the 2006-2007 season

Random Notes, circa 2005

Of good mistakes and bad nostalgia

No Parking

The worst of the '60s at a theater near you

A Many Splintered Thing

Hale Centre debuts Neil Simon classic

Tinseltown Tirade

Hollywood and whine

Mystic Ribber

Pela's play predictions

Sweet Success

With a little help from her friends, Shawna Quain saves SweetCharity

The Chile Season

Nearly Naked's production of Valparaiso gives a provocative finish to an uneven year in theater

Citizen Fame

Journalists honor their own at annual fete

Dinah Might

The Black Theatre Troupe banks on the strength of a blues singer's popularity

Simon Says 'Stay Home'

Phoenix Theatre's Rumors is not even worth talking about

Best Little Playhouse That Could

Is What It Is Theater

Season of the Switch

Local theater companies are offering a different kind of program this season

After M*A*S*H

Larry Gelbart is one of TV's last great writers. So why can't he stay tuned?

Simple Simon

Is What It Is Theatre manages to make one of Neil Simon's smaller comedies into a pretty big deal

Stale Mates

Hackneyed How the Other Half Loves is too trite by half, but performers are exemplary

Romance Is Gone

Money woes force Arizona Jewish Theatre Company to cancel season's last show

Life Swapping

Bubbly Me Myself I charts toils and troubles of self-identity crisis

The Man Who Would Be Killed

Chen Kaige's Chinese epic balances the historical and the intimate

Insane Clown Pass

Well-balanced Wallendas, popular pachyderm guide trip down a gaudy memory lane

Reverb of the Native

Laugh-packed The Foreigner really hits home

Second Helpings

Laugh-packed The Foreigner really hits home

Gross Encounter

There's Something About Mary--and it's funnier than Dumb and Dumber

Shtick Shift

Neil Simon weaves down center in seriocomic Broadway Bound

Night & Day

June 11 - 17, 1998

Night & Day

May 28 - June 3, 1998

Calendar for the week

May 28 - June 3, 1998

Simon's Playground

Phoenix theater companies love his work, even if audiences always don't

Calendar for the week

Phoenix theater companies love his work, even if audiences always don't

Calendar for the week

Phoenix theater companies love his work, even if audiences always don't

Another Opening, Another Show

The curtain goes up on the landmark Orpheum Theatre's $14 million renovation

Reversal Hall

Star swings; Chapter Two goes into Chapter 11

Kvetch 22

Oy vey! So what's with Arizona Jewish Theatre Company's Gentile bent?

Oy Story

The Sisters Rosensweig entangled in unfunny family ties

The Yellowed Pages

Creaky Dial M for Murder misses its calling

Hello Dolly, Goodbye Risk

Fresh theatre chokes in the dust as war-horses storm Valley stages

Brute Farce

Fresh theatre chokes in the dust as war-horses storm Valley stages

Simply Simon

Fresh theatre chokes in the dust as war-horses storm Valley stages

The Simple Simon

Fresh theatre chokes in the dust as war-horses storm Valley stages

Tossed in Yonkers

Fresh theatre chokes in the dust as war-horses storm Valley stages

BEREAVE IT OR NOT

Fresh theatre chokes in the dust as war-horses storm Valley stages

BROADWAY PLAYS DEAD'95 TONY AWARDS EULOGIZE WORST SEASON IN NEW YORK THEATRE HISTORY

Fresh theatre chokes in the dust as war-horses storm Valley stages

CROWD WHEEZER

Fresh theatre chokes in the dust as war-horses storm Valley stages