“Arts in Crisis” tour hits Arizona
I felt like I was on the set with James Lipton of Bravo’s “Inside the Actors Studio” yesterday as I faced two empty leather chairs on the stage at Phoenix Theatre. The seats were for Robert Booker,...
View ArticleThere’s an award for that!
A week ago Monday, protestors took to the Arizona state capitol to protest immigration-related legislation—but the governor wasn’t there to witness the gathering. She was already scheduled to appear at...
View ArticleTom Leveen’s “Party”: Mission Accomplished
Lizabeth was eager to tell me about her day when I picked her up after school yesterday. She’d taken Tom Leveen’s new young adult novel—titled “Party”—to school with her so she could finish reading it...
View ArticleSleuthing for weekend adventures
I kicked off my weekend a bit early with last night’s performance of Susan Zeder’s “The Death and Life of Sherlock Holmes” at the Paul V. Galvin Playhouse on ASU’s Tempe campus. I was eager to see the...
View ArticleMusings on Mother’s Day
James’ mother nicely shared with us that she “really doesn’t need anything for Mother’s Day.” Many of us find that “less is more” as time goes by, although I find it hard to believe that a grandmother...
View ArticleCornerstone meets cactus
Soon playwright Michael John Garcés will be writing a work about school justice and zero tolerance, using material gathered during a series of “story circles” taking place this week with students,...
View ArticleDoes technology trump art?
Does technology make art obsolete? It’s one of many questions explored during a piece of performance art dubbed “POVV [Prisoner of View/Point of War]” by 13 artists and Arizona State University theater...
View ArticleYou dirty rat…
Rat eats man. Rat dons suit and tie. Rat gets gig killing fellow rats. Rat gets the girl. That’s the gist of “The Tenement,” a work by ASU alumni exploring what it means to be human. It’s being...
View ArticleGot scripts?
Arizona playwright submissions for the 16th annual “Hormel New Works Festival” coming to Phoenix Theatre March 3-16, 2014 are being accepted through Aug. 1. Next year’s festival will include four...
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