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BWW Review: MY LOVE - MY LUMBERJACK at B3 - A Weekend of Perovich Part I
Shrewdly directed by the great Ilana Lydia, B3's searing production of My Love, My Lumberjack opened last Friday and runs for only two more performances, next weekend. The piece is presented on B3's modest, storefront stage, however the production feels remarkably eerie and magical - and, GLORY BE, ...
BWW Review: The Hale Centre Theatre's KISS AND TELL
Director Cambrian James' fast paced, delightful Kiss and Tell gave this grumpy critic more laughs than she has experienced in a good long time - and the rest of the Hale's opening night audience was right there with her....
BWW Review: GYPSY at Theater Works
Amanda Glenn's turn as Louise is lovely and heartbreaking. Glenn has a beautiful voice and exquisite is her painstaking, delicate interpretation of the awkward, plain Jane who becomes the iconic burlesque queen....
BWW Review: FUN HOME at ASU Gammage
Fun Home relays the story of Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist who wrote a graphic memoir that serves as the basis for the musical. Fun Home explores Bechdel's life and her relationship with her father, a closeted gay man....
BWW Review: The Hale's JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Wildly talented, vastly experienced director/choreographer Cambrian James' staging is at times crisp and clear and spot on....
Review: DROPPIN' JOHNS at B3 Theatre
Droppin' Johns is as shamelessly subversive, as courageously adventurous and as boldly resolute a piece of Feminist Fringe Theatre as any you'll find, anywhere....
BWW Review: 1070 at Herberger Theater Center
New Carpa Theater's #1070theplay shows the impact S.B. 1070 had on one Mexican family and the damage done to @ArizonaTourism....
Review: Brelby's Allegiance to THE PLEDGE Yields Magical Results
Megan O'Connor's The Pledge is a startlingly clever new play that opened last Friday at Historic Downtown Glendale's Brelby Theatre Company....
BWW Review: URINETOWN at Mesa Encore Theatre
Satirical works tend to resurface during trying social and political times, and Mesa Encore Theatre's production of Urinetown timing is impeccable. Urinetown takes place in a dystopian-esque world, where due to a severe drought, private toilets are banned by the government, and citizens can only rel...
BWW Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON Tour Two at ASU Gammage
THE BOOK OF MORMON is just as irreverently funny now as it was when it opened in 2011....
BWW Review: WONDERLAND: ALICE'S ROCK & ROLL ADVENTURE at Childsplay
Childsplay kicks off their summer with the rockin' Wonderland: Alice's Rock & Roll Adventure, a reinvented production of the treasured stories by Lewis Carroll, written by Rachel Rockwell with a score by Michael Mahler....
BWW Review: The Nuclear Implodes In Stray Cat Theatre's HIR
Change can be jarring. The contemporary worldwide rise of populism demonstrates the backlash of the older generations against the new social current. Stray Cat Theatre's Hir showcases this social metamorphosis through the implosion of a nuclear family and its identity politics....
BWW Review: HOLMES AND WATSON Solve Another Case!
A thrilling new mystery from the playwright of Arizona Theatre Company's smash hit Sherlock Holmes and the Adventures of the Suicide Club and the film Mr. Holmes makes its world premiere at the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson, Arizona; Jeffrey Hatcher's Holmes and Watson will leave you on the edge...
BWW Review: NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS at Hale Centre Theatre
NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS flashes back to simpler, slower-paced times. Great for 1950s sitcom fans 65+....
BWW Review: GYPSY at Desert Foothills Theater
This rags-to-riches story of ugly-duckling, Louise, the tomboy who rose to national fame as Gypsy Rose Lee (the entertainment queen who put class into Burlesque) is an all American classic; and Mama Rose, the pushy backstage mother who lived through her daughters, but paid a high price, is one of th...
BWW Review: RING OF FIRE Pays Tribute to a Legend
The story of Johnny Cash, one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, comes vibrantly to life on stage in Arizona Theatre Company's crowd pleasing Ring of Fire: the Music of Johnny Cash....
BWW Review: Brelby Wins THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Brelby Theatre Company's Shelby Maticic has directed her company in a breakneck paced, enticing production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. With a book by Rachel Sheinkin and music and lyrics by William Finn, it's a show that could be breathtakingly dreadful, but instead is wildly ente...
BWW Review: BLACKLISTERS at Brelby Theatre Company
Blacklisters ain't for sissies. It is, however, a vital work by a serious young playwright, produced by an essential young theatre company that must be encouraged and supported. Our survival depends on it....
BWW Review: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE at Theatre Works
Alanna Kalbfleisch is an utter delight to see and hear, with luminous skin, bright eyes and dimples in both cheeks and chin. Let's face it. She's eye candy. As Dot/Marie, the comfortable authority with which Kalbfleisch moves about the stage suggests a lifetime of performance. Her voice is off-the-c...
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