Review: REYKJAVIC at Stray Cat Theatre
by Herbert Paine - December 08, 2025
REYKJAVIK is less a play to be solved rather than a mood to be inhabited. That may frustrate some, but for others, it’s the kind of theater that embraces mystery, that resists tidy endings, that thrives in the uncanny spaces between genres....
Review: DECEIVED at Arizona Theatre Company
by Herbert Paine - October 27, 2025
Patrick Hamilton’s Gas Light lit its first flame in 1938, a moody little stage thriller set in the fog-drenched backstreets of 1880s London. It was a venom-laced marital drama where domesticity was turned into a psychological trap.
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Review: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE at Black Theatre Troupe
by Herbert Paine - October 23, 2025
Change can be the hardest and perhaps even the most horrifying part of life, but it can also be the most rewarding. The Black Theatre Troupe’s performance of the musical CAROLINE, OR CHANGE highlights the highs and lows of change with distinction....
Review: THE COMEUPPANCE at Stray Cat Theatre
by Herbert Paine - September 29, 2025
With a running time of two hours plus Jacobs-Jenkins's uneven script may waver at times, yet to the company’s credit, and to director Seth Tucker, this Stray Cat Theatre production remains impossible to ignore....
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE Comes to Tempe Center for the Arts
by A.A. Cristi - September 15, 2025
Black Theatre Troupe will present Caroline, or Change at Tempe Center for the Arts from October 17–November 2, 2025. With book and lyrics by Tony Kushner and music by Jeanine Tesori, the acclaimed musical explores race, class, and identity through a stirring blend of gospel, Motown, and Jewish melod...