Musical of Musicals (The Musical) has a beard a mile long. This send-up of Broadway tuners should, at this point in the... More >>

The ways in which revolutions disrupt the lives of the winners has been well documented. In Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man, we consider the... More >>

I called my friend Nathan the other day and asked him to join me in seeing Nearly Naked Theatre's new production of Equus. "No," he told me,... More >>

Christmas has come early for fans of good writing and excellent acting, courtesy of Stray Cat Theatre's production of Steve Yockey's Wolves. The... More >>

I almost never attend Sunday evening theater performances. I did on a recent weekend, when I went to see Arizona Theatre Company's Lombardi,... More >>

I found myself wondering, while watching Ron May being Mike Daisey in Actors Theatre's The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, how it would be to... More >>

Nearly Naked Theatre has joined the fray and moved its curtain time from the more traditional 8 p.m. to a half-hour earlier, and therefore I... More >>

It's happening again: Another Valley theater season is about to commence. Beginning in September, Phoenicians will step out of short pants (well,... More >>

Desert Stages Theatre's production of Rent never stops moving. The relentless, often abrasive energy that fuels Jonathan Larson's musical also... More >>

As usual, the summer theater season here is a vast, parched desert. Tried-and-true retreads are again the June and July standard: Hale Centre... More >>

With his new play, The Color of Stars, Dwayne Hartford offers fulfilling, adult entertainment that doesn't pander to kids. Much as I did with... More >>

Caridad Svich's theatrical translation of Isabel Allende's bestselling The House of the Spirits arrives on the stage as a mere shadow of its... More >>

When one writes of her here, she is "Broadway's Kathy Fitzgerald." In New York, for which she left us more than a decade ago, she is one among a... More >>

Desert Stages Theatre artistic director Terry Helland clearly is mad. Onto the tiny black box stage of his Actor's Café, he continues to... More >>

Theater fans are anticipating Nearly Naked Theatre's upcoming production of Spring Awakening, but I'll venture that nothing else the company does... More >>

Not far from where I sit typing this, theater people are wringing their hands. That's what I picture, anyway: The folks at Actors Theatre, pacing... More >>

Tolstoy was right: It's more fun watching people be miserable. And so we have David Mamet, the American playwright who has brought us the... More >>

In Bill Harris' Stories About the Old Days, an elderly man and woman stand in an old church and recount their lives. They bemoan the passing of... More >>

Stray Cat Theatre has kicked off its 10th season with a meandering mess of dramatic devices masquerading as a play. A murder mystery of sorts,... More >>

We were, as we do most Saturday nights, dressing for theater. "Why does this shirt look so nice on the hanger," I asked my spouse, "and so dumpy... More >>

Things were looking up, even before Nearly Naked Theatre's Oedipus for Kids! commenced on opening night. It's always nice to open a playbill and... More >>

My visit to Hale Center Theatre last week marked the fifth production of Little Shop of Horrors I've seen in a decade — no surprise there,... More >>

The nice people at Arizona Broadway Theatre sent someone to lecture me about the way I review theater. Apparently, my last review of an ABT show... More >>

Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan's Hairspray is, I've decided, made of Teflon. It would appear that nothing can hurt this oft-produced musical... More >>

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella has an interesting pedigree. Originally seen as a live television broadcast in 1957, this three-act musical... More >>

As we were leaving for a matinee this past Sunday, my spouse said to me, "This has got to be the low point in your career." It was hard to argue... More >>

Paul Bartel's musicalization of his 1982 black comedy, Eating Raoul, is a blast. This is an excellent example of a musical theater subgenre that... More >>

My friend Ruth Beaumont often says, "If the play is boring, you can always just stare at the stage décor." Unfortunately for me, the set... More >>

You know the economy's in the toilet when the state's largest professional theater is presenting a rerun. The Mystery of Irma Vep, the rather... More >>