Release the fear
You’ll find a large collection of weapons at the intersection of Central Ave. and Roosevelt St. in Phoenix — all used in crimes, but later melted down and incorporated into the base of a sculpture...
View ArticleKinky in Tempe
If you answer “yes” to one or more of the following questions, there’s a good chance you’ll find plenty to love in the musical “Kinky Boots,” which launched its first national tour this week at ASU...
View ArticleSize matters
“The Brothers Size,” a delightfully unconventional bit of theater being performed through Sunday, Oct. 5 by Stray Cat Theatre in Tempe, is a visceral exploration of brotherhood by blood and...
View ArticleA migration tale
Poetic justice abounds in works of opera, yet poetry is sometimes in short supply. Instead of the usual themes of lust, murder, envy and excess the mariachi opera “Cruzar la Cara de la Luna” (“To Cross...
View Article“Speed the Plow” explores life in film land
“Speed the Plow” by contemporary American playwright David Mamet is a riff on life in film land, where everybody wants a piece of the person charged with “green-lighting” what might be the next big...
View ArticleVoodoo, blue herons & molecules
A sleepwear-clad man sits staring out the window as his sister enters, distraught her brother has upset their usual routine by fetching his own cup of coffee from the kitchen. Eventually they settle...
View ArticleThe fine art of fiction
Picture an evening with five fiction writers. Four are needy students, another a bombastic professor with baggage galore. You’ve got the makings of “Seminar,” a play by Theresa Rebeck that premiered...
View ArticleBradley Cooper is “The Elephant Man” on Broadway
Twelve period lights hang suspended above the Booth Theatre stage in New York City, home for a revival of “The Elephant Man” starring Bradley Cooper as the man we know as John Merrick, whose physical...
View Article“The Elephant Wrestler”
When Indian Ink Theatre Company of New Zealand performs their original play “The Elephant Wrestler” at Scottsdale Center for the Arts this weekend, it’ll be one more stop on a journey that started with...
View ArticleTV writer Rick Cleveland pens “Five Presidents” play
I suspect most Americans given the chance to reunite five historical figures in one room for drinks and conversation wouldn’t pick recent presidents. But that’s just what playwright Rick Cleveland does...
View Article
