Seeking a Great Idea in Theatre
If you are ready for a comedy show, Arts Express has the ticket for you. And if you are ready for a ribald comedy, be sure to bring your...
A Play on the Life of Gloria Steinem
Cynthia Jeffery brilliantly portrays feminist icon Gloria Steinem in a live production currently being staged by the Invisible Theatre in Tucson. With this vibrant, in-your-face activist play, one can...
A Moralistic Tale for All Ages
Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre adopts the same attitude as I do: Halloween Never Ends. It’s the first live production for S and S since March, and is currently an...
A Time of Evil
Yes, this is a time of evil, a time where we see elected officials prostituting themselves before a dictator obsessed by Russia. But there was another time in American...
Charade or Theatre?
According to the dictionary, a charade is “an absurd pretence intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance.” The opening play at the Rogue Theatre in Tucson this season...
DEATH: Coming to a Theatre Near You !
This is by Sun News Editorial writer Conlan Salgado
Theatre is not dead, but it is dying. In thirty years, cultural critics may have the unhappy duty of asking about...
Remembering Terrence McNally
The great playwright Terrence McNally died today. Sun News remembers him from our meeting in Austin last year on his 8oth birthday. Two articles I wrote about him can...
Desire Under the Elms
The 1924 romantic tragedy Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill had its roots in ancient Greece when Euripides launched his trilogy of plays on Hippolytus.
Euripdes related the tale...