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...
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...
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...
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...
The Dickens Festival in Tucson
A city in the American desert is an unlikely place to encounter a 19th century-style English market, but when you see Father Christmas in person you know Charles Dickens...
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...
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...
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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...
