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BWW Review: HAMLET at Southwest Shakespeare Company
The Southwest Shakespeare Company has abridged and adapted one of Shakespeare's most famous plays to introduce younger audiences to classical theater. This troupe of actors does a phenomenal job with a shortened script that packs a punch....
BWW Review: Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre Presents THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre’s production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by Trisha Ditsworth is refreshing and entertaining holiday fare for the entire family. Runs through December 19th....
BWW Review: Black Theatre Troupe Presents Langston Hughes's BLACK NATIVITY
Black Theatre Troupe’s production of Langston Hughes’s BLACK NATIVITY is a moving celebration of life and faith. A Seasonal must-see! Runs through December 19th at The Helen K. Mason Performing Arts Center in Phoenix....
BWW Review: Mesa Community College Theatre and Film Arts Department Presents Melissa Leilani Larson's GIN MUMMY
As an homage to Oscar Wilde and his genius, Mesa Community College's production of Melissa Leilani Larson’s GIN MUMMY is an enjoyable and enlightening comedy of manners. Limited engagement through December 11th....
BWW Review: ASU Gammage Presents the National Tour of MY FAIR LADY
The National Tour of MY FAIR LADY is a theatrical joy ride that bursts into life the moment the giant pillars of Convent Garden are lowered from above and the opening scene is established. Running through December 12th at ASU Gammage in Tempe, AZ....
BWW Review: Arizona Broadway Theatre Presents ELF THE MUSICAL
Tyler Pirrung is terrific as Buddy in Arizona Broadway Theatre's ELF THE MUSICAL, directed and choreographed by Kurtis Overby. The show runs through December 29th....
BWW Review: Hale Centre Theatre Presents A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Hale Centre Theatre's production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL ~ A Play with Music is a wholesome and joyful celebration of the Christmas spirit ~ the perfect Holiday fare for the entire family. Directed by David Dietlein and featuring Tim Dietlein as Scrooge (in the Red Cast), the show runs through December...
BWW Review: The Phoenix Theatre Company Presents MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS
David Appleford hails MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS as 'a genuine, rock ‘n roll musical theatre thrill ride.' Just right for the Holiday Season! Runs through January 2nd at The Phoeni Theatre Company....
BWW Review: MISS BENNET Unwraps Glad Tidings at Arizona Theatre Company
In MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY, Gunderson partners with her friend Margot Melcon and lends a righteous voice to Mary Bennet, the third child of the Bennet household in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. In the duo's amusing account, Mary comes of age in a way Austen enthusiasts ought to appr...
BWW Review: Arizona Broadway Theatre Presents URINETOWN ~ Wicked Pissah!!
“Funny” is what’s on tap in Arizona Broadway Theatre’s wicked pissah production of URINETOWN THE MUSICAL, directed by Renée Kathleen Koher and accentuated by Stephen Hohendorf’s energetic choreography. The show runs through November 14th at ABT's Mainstage....
BWW Review: Stray Cat Theatre Presents OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD
A critical review of Stray Cat Theatre's production of Alexis Scheer's OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD on stage at Tempe Center for the Arts through November 13th....
BWW Review: MEAN GIRLS National Tour at Gammage Auditorium
A tribute to adolescent angst and nerd revenge fantasies, MEAN GIRLS is a satisfying, hilarious musical adaptation of Tina Fey's 2004 comedy. It's an entertaining (if guilty) pleasure propelled by superb video design, skilled comedians all over the stage, and its fun (if disposable) score. The hit m...
BWW Review: SUNSET BABY at Black Theatre Troupe
A lot is written about the effect of an absent father on sons. The phrase 'A boy needs his father' is often bandied about in conversation but not really heard concerning daughters. Scores of scholarly papers about this have been written with experiments and scientific data that reinforce the importa...
BWW Review: ALONE/TOGETHER - A Film on Life in the Time of COVID
In ALONE/TOGETHER, filmmaker Hsuan-Yu Pan builds on her body of work with an eye-opening account of the human experience in the time of COVID. The film will be available to stream from December 8th at 10:00 p.m. MST through December 14th MST. Link to https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/at2021....
BWW Review: Theatre Artists Studio Presents THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
Theatre Artists Studio is premiering Kirt Shineman's crisp and riveting new play, THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, directed by Janis Webb and featuring a commanding performance by Pamela Fields as Dame Christie. The show runs through November 21st....
BWW Review: CARRIE, THE MUSICAL at Desert Stages Theatre
In 2020, it felt like the world had gone sideways and there was nothing but bullying everywhere you turned; it only seems fitting that many shows in the Valley are now performing shows dealing with the subject....
BWW Review: AZ OPERA'S FILM, THE COPPER QUEEN at Home Computer Screens
The Copper Queen is a modern opera by Clint Borzoni and John de los Santos that tells of times past in Bisbee, Arizona. It won an Arizona Opera competition that insured its place onstage. Because of the pandemic and the fact that currently audience size is quite limited, The Copper Queen became a f...
BWW Review: Wall Street Takes Center Stage at Live Theatre Workshop
In DRY POWDER (uninvested capital), Ms. Burgess acknowledges income inequality from the vantage point of elite power brokers, the oft-maligned “one percenters” driving the nation's economic bus to a cliff’s edge. As stagnant wages and unemployment take front and center in our political discour...
BWW Review: THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at The Phoenix Theatre Company
As I sit here with my fingers resting on the keys of my laptop, I find myself struggling to put words on the page. A feeling very similar to when asked by fellow patrons what I thought about the show. My speechlessness should be a testament to the magnificence I witnessed on The Phoenix Theatre Comp...
BWW Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Toro Theatre Company
How much deceit is allowed in the pursuit of love? A rose by another name would smell as sweet, so Earnest would were he not Earnest called....
BWW Review: LEGENDS OF: THE WEREWOLF at Southwest Shakespeare Company
Legends of: the Werewolf is a new play written by Beau Heckman. This world premiere gives you all the information you need to avoid becoming a werewolf and what to do if you ever cross one....
BWW Review: CAMELOT at The Phoenix Theatre Company
You don’t need Merlin to make magic out of CAMELOT…not if Michael Barnard, a master of musical entertainment, is casting his spell on the stage of The Phoenix Theatre Company. Running through October 24th, the production features a trio of triple-threat actors ~ James D. Gish, Kate Cook, and Tob...
BWW Review: ATC RETURNS WITH TRIUMPHANT NEW MUSICAL
The production, stripped of inessential razzle-dazzle, is a poignant piece of minimalist theatre rarely seen in mainstream venues. Chalk it up, by and large, to the small-scale nature of one-person experiments, not to mention the modest locales that draw your conventional cabaret audiences. Ms. Bert...
BWW Review: THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE at ASU Musical Theatre And Opera
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is pandemonium, P A N D E M O N I U M, pandemonium....
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TajMo: Room On The Porch Tour 2026 Fox Tucson Theatre (9/13-9/13) |
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Ziggy Marley Fox Tucson Theatre (6/19-6/19) |
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The Seventh Annual Young Playwrights of Tucson Live Theatre Workshop (5/29-5/31) |
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Jose Gonzalez: Against The Dying Of The Light Tour Fox Tucson Theatre (9/17-9/17) |
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Alison Krauss and Union Station Pepsi Amphitheatre at Fort Tuthill (9/28-9/28) |
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