Secret Agent Man: 009
Fans of James Bond will relish a parody of the world's most famous secret agent currently playing at the Gaslight Theatre in Tucson. Your face muscles will ache by...
Cloud Tectonics: An Endless Now
Is this a science fiction play dressed up as a love story, or a love story dressed up as a science fiction play? Cloud Tectonics by José Rivera is...
Space Wars in Tucson
It’s a winning formula: create a musical farce where good is pitted against evil. The Gaslight Theatre in Tucson is currently staging Space Wars, a broad take-off on Star...
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...
Herman’s Favourite Animal
Herman's favourite animal is a rabbit “because they were born prepared to listen.” Is this just a throw-away line, a bon mot of no substance, or is it rather...
The Little Prince
Like the Tales of the Brothers Grimm, the famous book The Little Prince is not really a children's book. But unlike Grimm's Tales there is no nastiness here.
Nonetheless adaptations...
Agatha Christie Murder Mystery in Oro Valley
There is nothing more delicious than an Agatha Christie murder mystery. I first attended The Mousetrap in 1978. It began a run in the West End of London in...
A Very Irish Play
What would life be like in a European land untouched by the glories of Roman civilisation? One only has to visit Ireland to find out, a place where even...
The Stanislavski System
Philip G. Bennett operates a Theatre Lab here in Tucson, where he trains people in the acting technique developed in Russia by Konstantin Stanislavski in the early 20th century....
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...