Review: BOB & JEAN: A LOVE STORY at Arizona Theatre Company
by Herbert Paine - April 21, 2025
Arizona Theatre Company has staged a heartfelt and finely wrought production—a love story that resists sentimentality and embraces sincerity. BOB & JEAN may not sweep you off your feet, but it will wrap its arms around you and whisper a reminder of what it means to hold on....
Review: BEACH BLANKET BEE BOP at The Gaslight Theatre
by Zach Wetzel - April 15, 2025
BEACH BLANKET BEE BOP is now playing at The Gaslight Theatre! Written by Peter VanSlyke and adapted/directed by Katherine Byrnes and Mike Yarema, this is a side-splitting and toe-tapping musical parody. The Gaslight Theatre takes audiences back to the 1960's for a sun-kissed tale about a beloved boa...
Review: CRIMES OF THE HEART at Order Chaos Theater Company
by Herbert Paine - April 14, 2025
Order Chaos Theatre Company’s production of Beth Henley's CRIMES OF THE HEART is earnest in its attempt to capture the play’s bruised heart and tangled humor. However, ultimately, it’s a production that, like its characters, yearns for something more — and, at times, almost gets there....
Review: ART at Theatre Artists Studio
by Herbert Paine - March 31, 2025
ART is a must-see—not just because it’s brilliant, but because it might just make you rethink every argument you’ve ever had about taste....
Review: PHANTOM at Arizona Broadway Theatre
by Herbert Paine - March 10, 2025
By now, the phrase Phantom of the Opera conjures one thing: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s juggernaut, a chandelier-crashing, organ-blasting spectacle that has been haunting Broadway since the Reagan administration. But Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit’s PHANTOM, currently at Arizona Broadway Theatre in Peoria ...
Review: JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN Reframes An American Masterpiece
by Robert Encila-Celdran - March 05, 2025
Kimberly Belflower's writing blends academic fluency with the unfiltered energy of teenage argot. Crisp and emotionally charged, the script expertly transitions between scenes from The Crucible and the students' classroom debates, crafting a narrative that is as urgent as it is thought-provoking....