Actors Theatre Delivers with The Book Club Play and The Cottage

Summer is not yet half over, and we are hot and tired and want a chilled beverage. If we must be entertained, we want simple amusements, please, Beckett can wait until November. Actors Theatre — poor, beleaguered, recently almost-dead Actors Theatre — has delivered what we need. This professional theater…

Voyage Trekkers Movie Coming Soon to a Galaxy Near You (This One)

The Phoenix-based web seriesVoyage Trekkers is looking to boldly go where no Arizona sci-fi web series has gone before: the silver screen. After doing two seasons of their “comedic love letter to Star Trek,” creators Nathan Blackwell and Craig Michael Curtis have their sights set on making a feature film…

Adam Carolla on His Podcast Drama and Returning to Phoenix

Patent trolls be damned, The Adam Carolla Show must go on. Former host of The Man Show and the Crank Yanker himself, Adam Carolla will bring his podcast, The Adam Carolla Show to Phoenix’s Stand Up Live on Friday, June 20, and Saturday, June 21, with two shows per night…

The Full Monty from Mesa Encore Drops More Than Trou

The setup: There really isn’t anything wrong with the lemons God gave you, even before you pluckily make lemonade from them. But in 1997, when director Peter Cattaneo showed us the work of screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) in The…

Booking The Book of Mormon: Why Did It Take So Long?

Gammage Auditorium announced last month that The Book of Mormon, which is three years into its Broadway run and preselling seats through March 2015 as of press time, will play Tempe on tour sometime in the 2015-16 theater season. Innocent questions that arise naturally, especially in the minds of people…