Theater Review – April 21, 2019

TERRIFYING “LET THE RIGHT ONE IN” IS NOT AN EASY PLAY TO ACCEPT

“LET THE RIGHT ONE IN”
Stray Cat Theatre, Studio Theatre, Tempe Center for the Arts
Tempe, AZ

Stray Cat Theatre’s production of “Let the Right One In” is a terrifyingly violent play that is challenging to watch as it tells the tale of two losers who struggle to be part of a normal life and to establish a loving relationship but can’t because each character is plagued with scary deviations that separate the pair from regular people.  It is the problem of weird and unusual bringing-up … Continue Reading

Theater Review – April 20, 2019

“AMERICAN MARIACHI” PROVIDES AUDIENCES WITH AN INSIGHTFUL VIEW OF HISPANIC CULTURE

“AMERICAN MARIACHI”
Arizona Theatre Company, Center Stage, Herberger Theater Center
Phoenix, AZ

“American Mariachi” introduces a new comedy with music to audiences in one of the first efforts by Arizona Theatre Company to feature a Hispanic themed play by Jose Cruz Gonzalez that looks at a family guided and influenced by mariachi music and turns it into a touching piece about the family’s efforts to establish a women’s mariachi band, something in the Spanish culture that is normally exclusively male.  The play is an entertaining piece that creates … Continue Reading

Theater Review – April 19, 2019

“SISTERS IN LAW” PROVES TAME LOOK AT TWO INTERESTING JUSTICES

“SISTERS IN LAW”
Mainstage Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre Company
Phoenix, AZ

“Sisters In Law,” a world premiere play at Phoenix Theatre, tells the story of Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg when they both served on the nation’s highest court from 1993 to 2012.  Audiences learn many things about the two justices but the play, adapted from Linda Hirshman’s book, is a tame look at the ideological differences that separated the first two women to serve on the Supreme Court.

The play tells a lot about … Continue Reading