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...
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...
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...
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...
Showdown in Tucson
Having just visited Tombstone last month, I was already in the mood for a good old-fashioned western. The Gaslight Theatre obliged by putting on a production entitled Showdown in...
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....
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 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...
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Tucson’s Reid Park Zoo
“Our goal is to be a world-class zoo,” said Reid Park Zoo’s Deborah Carr, director of marketing and events. As she gave the Sun...
World Premiere in Tucson
written by Drs. C. Cunningham & M. Emanuele
Gretchen Wirges brought her one-woman show to the Invisible Theatre this week, marking its world premiere. Entitled...
Arizona in Space
A 2-room exhibit at the Arizona History Museum, entitled Ready To Launch, is designed to show Arizona’s place in space.
While it has elements of...
