Stray Cat Theatre's production of Trista Baldwin's Chicks with Dicks commences with a go-go dancing competition and a lap dance, and heads south... More >>
Charles L. Mee's Soot and Spit is, in its ASU première, beautiful to behold. Cloaked in shadows, fractured with light, its 90 minutes chug... More >>
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 >>
Letterpress Is All the Rage -- and Part of Its History Is Being Preserved in Arizona
If there's a modern Mecca for the followers of letterpress, it's got to be the Chapel of the Blessed Eutectic in Prescott, Arizona. From downtown Phoenix, it's less than a two-hour… More >>
Stray Cat Theatre's Chicks with Dicks Is as Bad as it Sounds
Stray Cat Theatre's production of Trista Baldwin's Chicks with Dicks commences with a go-go dancing competition and a lap dance, and heads south from there. This unyielding camp comedy is… More >>
Cinco De Mayo 2013 Guide
Special Events Arizona Event Center 1300 S. Country Club Dr., Mesa www.arizonaeventcenter.com Danny Serrano, Richard Galaviz Jr., Manny Llanez, Kevin Soto, Jorge Ruiz, Ernesto Ortiz, and other jokesters will perform during the Latin Comedy… More >>
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