Review: THE COCOANUTS at Fountain Hills Theater
by Herbert Paine - March 31, 2026
By the mid-1920s the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo) were already well known on the vaudeville circuit. Broadway gave their mayhem a larger canvas. Producer Sam Harris commissioned a musical comedy built around them, pairing their improvisational chaos with the polish of Berlin’s ...
Review: MOBY DICK at Southwest Shakespeare Company
by Herbert Paine - March 23, 2026
With four actors on a generally bare deck, and a whale that exists in our imagination, the old story of compulsion and the sea finds a fresh, unexpectedly playful life....
Review: SIX at ASU Gammage
by Herbert Paine - March 18, 2026
What’s more satisfying than watching six wronged women reclaim their power? Watching them do it in rhinestone corsets, backed by a thunderous girl band and enough LED lighting to short-circuit Times Square. SIX, the British import that’s barreled from university revue to Broadway headliner like ...
Review: PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL at Arizona Broadway Theatre
by Herbert Paine - March 17, 2026
Stephen Casey, the director and choreographer of Arizona Broadway Theatre’s production of PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL, understands something essential about adapting a modern fairy tale, especially one rooted in a Rodeo Drive fantasy, for the stage: unless the performers anchor the story in authenti...
Review: OUR AMERICAN TRAGEDY at Sunny Gingham And Banzerini House
by Cheyenne Lewis - March 15, 2026
Nearly 161 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre as he watched a production of OUR AMERICA COUSIN. Every American knows this famous and tragic tale, but not everyone will know the story of those on stage that night. Making its full-length premie...