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...
Hello Dolly!
Stepping into the shoes of an iconic role is always fraught with danger. I saw Richard Burton in Camelot and did not really want to see anyone else play...
Last Train to Nibroc
The meeting of Raleigh and May in this play, Last Train to Nibroc, reminds me of the 1938 movie Holiday. There Cary Grant meets a vivacious woman played by...
Catwoman on the Prowl
Eartha Kitt recently paid a visit to Tucson, in the person of Dierdra McDowell.
By effectively channeling Kitt's persona in a one-woman show entitled Down To Eartha, she distilled the...
Dr. Ruth: Love Your Penis
At age 91 Dr. Ruth is still feisty. When I met her in 2014, she was appearing at a special performance of a play written about her life, Becoming...
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...
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....
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...