PHOENIX THEATER REVIEWS

Southwest Shakespeare Company's TWELFTH NIGHT, directed by David Vining, is a skillfully and smartly constructed and masterfully played production with scene pictures and performances that will linger well after the lights dim....

John Steinbeck's classic Of Mice and Men, a co-production with Milwaukee Repertory Theater and winner of the NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, continues the Arizona Theatre Company 2015-2016 season. It tells the emotional story of two migrant ranch workers, George (Jonathan Wainwright) a...

What an absolutely and utterly engaging and rollicking good time is A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, the winner of four 2014 Tony Awards including Best Musical, now on tour and raising the rooftop at ASU Gammage. Propelling that rooftop to delirious heights is a sterling ensemble, featuring t...

Arizona Broadway Theatre has honored the legendary musical, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, by mounting an utterly captivating and inspired production, featuring Jason E. Simon's virtuoso turn and beautifully nuanced performance as Tevye. M. Seth Reines has directed a powerhouse of a show, giving meticulous at...

Spirited performances by Tracy Payne Black, Brenda Jean Foley, Kevin Fenderson, and Micah Jondel DeShazer give zip to NOW. HERE. THIS. A/C Theatre Company further establishes its cred as the new kid on Phoenix's theatre block....

David Davalos's WITTENBERG requires a performance of mastery equal to the writing. The cast of Southwest Shakespeare Company's current production, astutely directed by Kent Burnham, more than rises to the challenge. Here's an ensemble devoutly to be wished, teeming with comedic energy and versatilit...

The promise of Conor McPherson's masterpiece, THE WEIR, is half-fulfilled in its Arizona Regional Premier at Theatre Artists Studio. The play's structural elegance cannot be denied, nor can McPherson's muscularity of language be overlooked. The problem lies in the delivery. Neither do the performanc...

TO THE MOON AND BACK is documentarian Susan Morgan Cooper's chilling expose of the travesty that has placed 259 children and their prospective parents in excruciating limbo. The story is as unnerving and convoluted as a byzantine plot. The result is a powerful cry for justice....

Sandy Smolan's documentary, THE HUMAN FACE OF BIG DATA, tackles one of the most complex and pervasive megatrends of our time, and the result is a provocative and remarkably well-balanced examination of the benefits and potential perils of technology's progeny....