Review: SHRINES at Ronin Theatre Collaborative
by Cheyenne Lewis
- Jan 31, 2026
Grief can feel like its own disease, a highly personalized feeling where no two people will share the exact thoughts or emotional journey. It lingers, and if those facing it are not careful, it can quickly consume the person’s life. Ronin Theatre Collective’s production of Ashley Rose Wellman’s SHRINES brilliantly dives into these themes at the play’s world premiere.
Review: GRACE AND GLORIE at Black Theatre Troupe
by Herbert Paine
- Sep 9, 2025
The emotional terrain is fertile, but in Black Theatre Troupe’s 56th-season opener, GRACE AND GLORIE, the production comes close but not quite far enough to capture the fullness and weight that popularized the work.
Review: NEW SUMMER SHORTS 2025 at Theatre Artists Studio
by Herbert Paine
- Jun 9, 2025
Theatre Artists Studio's perennial showcase of original 10-minute plays presents an impressive range of voices and tones, from sharply comic to deeply affecting. This year’s lineup leans toward intimate, character-driven encounters, anchored by the kind of unvarnished human truths only live theater can deliver.
Review: AGNES OF GOD at Theatre Artists Studio
by Herbert Paine
- Oct 9, 2023
Theatre Artists Studio delivers a riveting production of John Pielmeier’s AGNES OF GOD, directed by Judy Rollings. In a cerebral play that pits faith against reason and is a murder mystery to boot, Rollings's cast keeps the audience invested in a drama that is well-paced and loaded with gravitas.
BWW Feature: CODY DULL and Stage Left Productions
by Jeanmarie Simpson
- Apr 27, 2021
Stage Left was founded in 2016. It's first production was 'Exit Laughing' the show opened in May of 2016. Stage Left's first home was Ventana Lakes Yacht Club in Sun City where it performed for two years, then Stage Left also partnered with Paradise RV resort Ballroom. In 2018 Stage Left signed a lease and began construction on its current location in the Bell Mar Plaza. The first show to open in its new space was an Arizona Premiere of Steve Martin's Musical 'Bright Star' in May of 2019 Since its inception stage left has produced 41 productions both adult and kids. We have served 15000 patrons have worked with over 500 actors and crew and has performed almost 300 performances. This year's holiday show 'Tuna Christmas' will be stage left's 50th production.
The Bridge Initiative Announces Charity Theatrical Event
by A.A. Cristi
- Aug 26, 2019
The Bridge Initiative: Women+ in Theatre (TBI) announces its next production, ROAR! A Celebration, to be presented at Tempe Center for the Arts, Saturday, September 14th, 7:30 p.m. This one-night-only event offers original music, dance, spoken word, and testimony to what it means to be women and non-binary individuals in America today. A portion of all proceeds will be donated to Southwest Indigenous Women's Coalition (www.swiwc.org) and TBI is also partnering with Arizona Jews for Justice to collect goods for asylum seekers.
THE FOREIGNER at Fountain Hills Theater this March
by Rebecca Russo
- Feb 20, 2019
What does a shy Englishman in search of rest do when he visits a fishing lodge in Georgia? In Larry Shue's hilarious farce, Charlie Baker, a proof reader by day and a boring husband by night, adopts the persona of a foreigner who doesn't understand English. When others begin to speak freely around him, he not only becomes privy to secrets both dangerous and frivolous, he also discovers an adventurous extrovert within himself.
BWW Review: Stray Cat Theatre Presents GIDION'S KNOT ~ A Thinly Tied Torment
by Herbert Paine
- Mar 20, 2018
In Johnna Adams' play, GIDION'S KNOT (Stray Cat Theatre's current production, directed by Tracy Liz Miller), Corryn Fell (Shari Watts) is the distraught mother, desperate for answers about her son Gidion's suicide, forgoing the prescribed cycle of grief to pursue the truth about what unwound him enough to cause the fatal shot. She confronts Gidion's fifth grade teacher, Heather Clark (Alison Campbell), in a conversational struggle of attitudes and values that is as disconcerting as it is unsatisfying. The show runs through March 24th at the Tempe Center for the Arts.
Shari Watts and Amie Bjorklund to Lead Reading of THE FLORA & FAUNA in Mesa
by BWW News Desk
- Jan 30, 2017
The Bridge Initiative: Women in Theatre will feature Amie Bjorklund and Shari Watts in a development workshop and public reading of new play The Flora & Fauna by Los Angeles-based scribe Alyson Mead. The play offers two tour-de-force roles for local actresses who will have the rare professional opportunity to participate in the launch of a new piece.
Space 55 Presents WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
by A.A. Cristi
- Jan 4, 2017
Space 55 is pleased to announce the production one of Albee's greatest works, 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'. (Mr Albee passed away in late 2016) This hallmark play examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship.
BWW Review: Phoenix Theatre Presents CALENDAR GIRLS
by Herbert Paine
- Jan 28, 2016
On the stage of Phoenix Theatre, CALENDAR GIRLS basks and steeps in the glorious glow of its brilliantly assembled cast. Under EE Moe's astute direction, not one of the superb performances in this production overshadows the other; each is precious in its own right; together, they are simply magnificent.
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