October 20, 2003
On Strivers Row
(Phoenix, AZ)
KBAQ Theater Critic Chris Curcio reviews Black Theatre Troupe's season opener, "On Strivers Row," a 1940 play about Harlem's wealthy African-American families and how they snubbed their neighbors as they aspired to use their money to attain social status. It plays through November 2 at the John Paul Theatre at the Phoenix College campus. For tickets, call the Black Theatre Troupe box office at 602-258-8128.
[ Chris Curcio ]
October 13, 2003
Over the Moon
(Phoenix, AZ)
KBAQ Theater Critic Chris Curcio reviews Arizona Theatre Company's season opener, Stephen Dietz's world premiere comedy, "Over the Moon," based on a 1927 P. G. Wodehouse novel, "The Small Bachelor." It traces a love smitten painter with no talent who falls for a Manhattan socialite during the Prohibition era Roaring Twenties. It plays through October 26 at the Herberger Theater Center in downtown Phoenix. For tickets, call the Arizona Theatre Company box office at 602-256-6995.
[ Chris Curcio ]
October 08, 2003
West Side Story
(Phoenix, AZ)
KBAQ Theater Critic Chris Curcio reviews the Broadway Palm West Dinner Theatre production of Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story." The musical transplants Shakespeare's tragic love story of "Romeo and Juliet" to the rough Manhattan slums of the 1950s where rival gangs battle for turf. It plays through November 8 at the Broadway Palm West Dinner Theatre in Mesa. For tickets, call the Broadway Palm West Dinner Theatre box office at 480-325-6700.
[ Chris Curcio ]
October 01, 2003
Underneath the Lintel
(Phoenix, AZ)
KBAQ Theater Critic Chris Curcio reviews "Underneath the Lintel" an eye theater collaborative's performance about a librarian and a 113 year-old overdue book currently playing at the Herberger Theater.
[ Chris Curcio ]
