“One stray grain of rice on that slick stage floor, and bang!–you’re on your ass,” frets Bruce Miles. The producer of the Mill Avenue Theatre’s impending live rendition of The Rocky Horror Show, speaking during a recent photo session, confesses he doesn’t know what to expect of the audience when…
If you knew Tom Oldendick of Phoenix Little Theatre–a flamboyant type who performs a story rather than tells it–you’d be laughing so hard you’d forget for a moment that the three-act comedy he’s replaying almost cost you, the Phoenix taxpayer, a cool half million. He doesn’t spring his story as…
“TED BUNDY’S CORPSE! EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS INSIDE!” screeched an actual headline from the cover of a recent supermarket scandal rag, trumpeting “the pictures every American wants to see” of that executed serial killer. Even in death, the strangely charismatic Bundy–who’d been portrayed in a TV movie by heartthrob Mark Harmon–remained a…
Zev Bufman’s amphitheatre may be yesterday’s news, but fallout from the nuking it suffered in north Phoenix is still raining on Councilman Bill Parks. Come next election day, Parks likely will face opposition from at least one candidate from the ranks of people he angered by supporting the project. Amphitheatre…
There’s nothing disturbing about ASU’s Lyric Opera Theatre production of The Turn of the Screw. The cast performs competently. The costumes and set work to good advantage. The orchestral score is wonderful to follow. Honest, it’s nothing to get alarmed about. But that’s the scariest part–because this is supposed to…
Director-choreographer Michael Barnard, who has helmed a disproportionately high percentage of the Valley’s most successful theatrical endeavors over the years, rarely takes chances when it comes to casting, especially for a musical. So it’s no surprise that he’s managed to attract the best available performers for Perfectly Frank, a fast-paced…
