Obsession and Fate: Moby Dick
At the outset patrons are treated to live music, and then a rendition by the cast of the old shanty tune It's Time For Us to Leave Her. Having...
The Audience is an Accomplice
You might want to bring your own pina colada to this production of Accomplice. For those with a long memory, playwright Rupert Holmes is actually most famous for a...
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...
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...
A Murder Mystery in Tucson
Combine Agatha Christie with Fawlty Towers and Blackadder and what do you get? This most English of comedies: The Play That Goes Wrong.
It began at London's veritable Apollo Theatre...
The Norwegians
The 2013 play by C. Denby Swansen, The Norwegians, has arrived in Tucson. Should you care? In a word, yes. If you want to laugh pretty much non-stop for...
Total Acceptance
Made For Each Other, by Tucson playwright Monica Bauer, is a play about total acceptance.
Multifaceted, it deals with gay marriage, Alzheimer's and smoking intervention. But ultimately it's all about...
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...
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...