Lucky for you, snarfing apps, sipping bevvies, grooving to tunes, playing games, and ogling awesome art counts as a contribution to scholarships for Latina/o business majors. Food, entertainment, drink and good karma? We’re there. Button up the pearl snaps of your Western shirt and hit the ASU’s Hispanic Business Alumni’s…
There’s a lot to go out and do lately. I would credit my own frolicsome attitude for this observation, but everybody I run into says the same thing. Occasionally, a theater person of my acquaintance (not always the same one) will opine that there are just too many companies and…
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? playwright Edward Albee’s still kicking at 82 (hasn’t he been around longer?), and his methods predate cyberbullying, kids. No one can hurt you more than those you love, right in front of you in flesh and blood. And you don’t get all emo and hang…
courtesy of Mesa Arts Center Penn Jillette and Teller Penn Jillette and his professional partner, Teller, are two extremely busy guys. (Full disclosure: I worked for their entertainment lawyer in Manhattan a long time ago.) However boho and edgy they may have once considered themselves, they’ve been performing their irreverent,…
One of our, and your, favorite local stars of both the musical and straight (as it were) stage is the brassy, funny, rangy Johanna Carlisle. And Saturday night, May 8 (tomorrow), is a perfect time to help make it a happy Mother’s Day for this working mom whose son needs…
Whether you boycotted Cinco de Mayo or spent it in a tequila-fueled sueño, oblivious to actual Mexican-American culture and sociopolitical issues, solace will come at the Paul Espinosa Border Film Festival, presented free to the public by the Arizona Humanities Council. Arizona State University professor and award-winning filmmaker Espinosa will…
Maybe constant innovation and a 22-year-old company don’t mesh in your head, but who cares what you think? Arizona’s Movement Source has been dancing on the edge that long, specializing in multimedia collaborations and making sure our kids get that crucial helping of arts education. They’ve also been leading ethereal…
Kyle Lewis Ina (Lauren Dykes) will take any help she can get in And What She Found There, even from mysterious Joe (Adam Pinti). Some dude online called me strident and condescending yesterday, and I just wanted to say, “I have to be. It’s for the Curtains readers.” So, you…
Platitudes we all oughta write on the mirror in lipstick or shaving cream, as the case may be: All of us can make miracles where one of us will fail. It [everything, by the way] takes a village. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. Need a…
Maybe you’ve observed runway models, whose gliding sashay spotlights clothing, not the person underneath. Maybe, God help you, you’ve watched exotic dancers on a catwalk (sturdily constructed, ideally; never mind why we know). But you haven’t seen Catwalk, Scorpius Dance Theatre’s spiffy new interdisciplinary production at Phoenix Theatre’s Little Theatre…
Yes, it’s roomy and picturesque here at Jackalope Ranch, but I think my favorite thing is the ottoman — best reintroduction of a piece of furniture in the past two decades! Remember footstools? Fuck that. And if you want to go back to read any of the older Curtains reviews,…
No joking about Marcy Playground’s set at Rock the Zoo and how sex and candy smell better than . . . whatever. The Phoenix Zoo smells great, and headliners Vertical Horizon will maintain the groove while partiers 21 and older taste dozens of beers and wines. Abstainers can slurp fancy…
Yet another thing you might not know about Hale Centre Theatre in Gilbert is that they present a Children’s Theatre series — shows especially for little squirts, with whom, in case you haven’t checked lately, the east Valley is simply overrun. Naturally, because we care, Curtains is thrilled to tip…
People are funny. Yes, you. Channel-surfing for novelty (“Seen it. Seen it. Seen it.”), you respond to opportunities to get off the couch with, “I never heard of that. I dunno what it iiiiiiiis.” Well, that’s the whole point of the Phoenix Improv Festival (PIF), so stop whining and hustle…
I’m dating myself here (at least somebody is — ba dum bump!) but there used to be this TV show called The Dating Game. I would go on and on about it, but I just accidentally deleted what I’d already written, and it was basically a low-tech precursor of reality…
Phoenix Film Festival is 10 years old. Time to hit this mofo. Look, they’re showing around 150 films from 21 nations. Not a typo! And 2010’s PFF introduces the Opening Night Gala where the annual Visionary Award will be presented. The first award goes to Dan Harkins — maybe you’ve…
First, a blurb of super-good news for you audience types: David Barker’s astonishing one-man show, Dodging Bullets, returns as part of the 2010 Phoenix Fringe Festival (where you can catch lots of new stuff during the coming week, by the way) with performances beginning Friday night, April 2, at The…
Phoenix Fringe Festival helpfully gathers the performance and interactive artfunk of not just this multiculti metroplex, but farther-flung communities (including Richmond, Virginia; Detroit; Seattle; and London, Ontario) as well, and throws it into the mantis-eats-butterfly CenPho terrarium. It’s a menu of exclusive treats you’ll kick yourself if you miss. April…
Vessel’s one-night-only presentation of ASU prof Rachel Bowditch’s Transfix Retrospective: 1996-2010, a silent, fin-de-siècle ghost-white, urban-architecture-transforming, spectator-involving performance. The happening includes an exhibit of Bowditch’s photos. Fri., April 2, 6:30 p.m., 2010…
A kickoff event for the Family Fringe event series (i.e., stuff that’s far less likely to annoy or traumatize your kids), at Children’s Museum of Phoenix, designed especially for those ages 3 through 10, will send the rugrats in search of performers who’ll help them experience our Earth and sky…
At least three excellent classic 20th-century plays are presented regularly by high schools, which tends to taint them for anyone who was first exposed to them there: Arsenic and Old Lace, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (which I wish I could have squeezed into the “Curtains” schedule when Fountain Hills Community…
Our never-ending quest to define our identity through Facebook quizzes indicates that we’re vampires. “More like vampire-friendly,” we quipped — and one of our friends “likes” knowing that. Ewww. Barring the imaginary, a bite from a real person sounds inconvenient enough, so we’ll be careful at Changing Hands Bookstore when…
