thursday december 17 Who is that masked man? Say that line in this area, and there's a good chance that you're asking about Zarco Guerrero, local mask-maker and performance artist. Guerrero takes the plum role of the Devil in La Pastorela, a "teatro"-style Christmas pageant presented by El Teatro de...
I figured I wouldn't like Barry Williams. I expected that if I didn't find him personally repellent, I'd at least hate his performance in The Music Man, which I saw last weekend in Tucson, and which opened in Phoenix on October 20. I don't have anything against Williams, who's best...
thursday may 28 He cranked out one American classic after another throughout the '50s. But after 1962's Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams turned from personal expressionism to experimental surrealism, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a single title by the great Mississippian that anyone other than a theater scholar...
thursday april 30 The title character of The Tale of Teeka is a goose--Maurice, the narrator of Michel Marc Bouchard's children's play, presented by the French-Canadian troupe Les Deux Mondes, tells the tragic story of his relationship with the bird. The play, presented in association with the Governor's Call to...
Thursday April 9 Cross-dressing, gender ambiguity, unrequited sexual longings--in case anyone supposed that these were new concerns of the theater, proof to the contrary is offered by Twelfth Night; or What You Will (the only subtitle Shakespeare ever provided for one of his plays). Southwest Shakespeare Company concludes its season...
thursday november 27 The Ben Folds Five: The piano-bass-drums trio from Chapel Hill, North Carolina--so named because "it sounds better than the Ben Folds Three," says baby-grand man Folds--plows a deep furrow about midway between roots and alt. In fact, the BFF sounds a bit like a Gen X version...
thursday november 6 The Food Chain: Though Nicky Silver (Pterodactyls; Free Will and Wanton Lust) is one of America's more promising comic playwrights, his writing sometimes straddles the line that divides standup patter from subtler characterization; there's surely no little connection between that and men having an en masse attraction...
Several London dance clubs can lay claim to the title "England [and therefore the world]'s First Underground House Music Club." But only one--a South London spot called Heaven--has clear bragging rights to "England [and therefore the world]'s First Chill-Out Room." It also can lay claim to helping bring about the...
'tis the season Arizona Snow Day: In conjunction with Tempe's Fantasy of Lights (see the Events listing), the city hosts this free event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, December 14, at "Plazita de Descanzo," Sixth Street and Mill. Highlights include a freak fall of 12 tons of snow,...
thursday november 28 Of Ice and Hit Men: Phoenix Coyotes, Phoenix Roadrunners: Don't cry for the Valley's pro-hockey franchises; they'll eat their fill on Thanksgiving--of haymakers and high sticks. Two editions of the most dangerous game are scheduled on Thursday, November 28: The National Hockey League's Coyotes take on the...
thursday november 21 Three Tall Women: Arizona Theatre Company continues its 30th-anniversary season with Edward Albee's 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner about a well-to-do widow who revisits the past, and who is revisited by the spirits of her younger self. Lawrence Sacharow directed the original New York production, and he also...
thursday april 11 Dinofest International: Billed as "the biggest dinosaur event ever," this saurian showcase includes dinosaur skeletons and fossils from all seven continents. Highlights include numerous pieces from the "Great Dinosaurs of China" collections of the Beijing and Inner Mongolia museums of natural history, including the largest touring dino...
thursday february 8 Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities: Arizona Theatre Company presents playwright Anna Deavere Smith's controversial take on racism and class conflict in America, based on the incident that led to the 1991 riots in New York City's Crown Heights district. This week's performances...
It doesn't take long for Actors Theatre of Phoenix to offend women, the religious, conspiracy theorists and believers in extraterrestrials during its current production of Some Things You Need to Know Before the World Ends (A Final Evening With the Illuminati). Coming across like a bad version of The Hunchback...
Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge (Virgin) It's the Stones. It's great. Buy it. Little Jimmy Scott Dream (Sire) America is a wonderful place. A country that, no matter how much misfortune comes your way, no matter how much you just plain fuck up, if you hang around long enough, things just...
The theatre as an art form seems to be receding from relevance to our lives. With the exception of Tony Kushner's epic Angels in America, plays about contemporary problems have yielded to film as the art form of preference in our contemporary culture. But theatre in America, which has been...
Yet another 12 months of popular song have come and gone--for many, a year of soul-touching hits, for others, an unfulfilling mess of redundant backwash. But one thing's for sure: 1994 was a year of events in the music world. Michael and Lisa Marie got together, Kurt and Courtney broke...
at the fair Arizona Super Bowl XXX Kids' "In" Zone: Interactive tests of skill and games are planned during regular hours Friday and Saturday at Arizona State Fair. Highlights of the event, sponsored by the NFL and the Arizona Cardinals, include the Jerry Rice Super Bowl Touchdown Game, Gamemaster inflatable...
thursday december 14 A Christmas Carol: Actors Theatre of Phoenix's traditional production ofCharles Dickens' ghost story, adapted by Richard Hellesen and featuring music by David de Barry, continues with performances at 8p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday and 8p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in Center Stage at Herberger Theater Center,...
thursday november 30 Capitol Steps: If you consider Newt Gingrich unintentionally hilarious and stuff like the recent shutdown of the government funny as a crutch, this troupe's for you. The Washington, D.C.-based Steps were born in 1981, when three congressional aides were drafted to provide entertainment for a Senate Foreign...
thursday november 23 Turkey Trot 10K: Organizers bill the traditional Thanksgiving Day run as the oldest annual 10K in Arizona. This year's event also includes a two-mile fun run and a one-mile fitness walk; they both step off at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, with the Trot following at 9. The scene...
thursday november 16 Salome: Arizona Opera presents Richard Strauss' lusty drama about evil doings in the court of King Herod, climaxing with the deadly dance of the seven veils. Performances, in German with English subtitles, are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Symphony Hall, 225...
