Peter Hill’s hero juggles three women and a little hangover
The theater world is littered with playscripts by directors who thought, after overseeing too many productions of the usual stage fare, they could do better. They usually can’t.
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Updated July 29

Beauty lies under skin of ‘She Loves Me’
Don’t judge a book by its cover, right?
What about judging a stage production by its venue? The Gilbert Fine Arts Association production of the musical “She Loves Me” is being performed at the Val Vista Cultural Hall, where a basketball hoop is suspended overhead, the room’s seating consists of back-wrecking, view-obstructing folding chairs and the sound-bouncing acoustics make the microphone-
amplified musical show sound like mush from half-court.
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Updated July 22

One-man ‘Male Intellect’ stands as vapid sitcom for the stage
Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art.
Likewise, actor Robert Dubac has paired junk psychology with bad stand-up comedy and called it his own one-man theatrical show, “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?”
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Updated July 22

‘Princesses’ casts spell at MCC theatre
The pitch: An original, locally written musical. Strike one.
Based on a fairy tale. Strike two.
Performed by community actors at a community college. Strike ...
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Updated July 15

Relationship comedy fits nicely with lighthearted lineup
Downtown Scottsdale is on its way to becoming our own mini Great White Way for pop theater, the kind of fluffy, edgeless stage stuff that uses stereotypes and jokes as sharp as Nerf darts to craft rib-tickling, easy-pleasing productions.
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Updated July 15

‘Woolf’ in darker clothing
Three months since Nearly Naked Theatre’s “The House of Yes” closed its run at Phoenix Theatre’s Little Theatre, its subfuscous family of creepy, dysfunctional ghosts is still haunting the playhouse’s stage.
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Updated July 8

Mesa Arts Center exhibit features etchings, lithographs, printed images
Printmaking gets little respect, but that’s starting to change.
Just ask Gretchen Schermerhorn.
“I think in general, prints still have a stigma attached to them — that they’re not as precious or as valuable as paintings and sculpture,” the Tempe artist says.
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Updated July 1

Director Tyler pours on the laughs at Hale Centre staging of ‘Penzance’
Pirates, meet the kitchen sink.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operetta “Pirates of Penzance” comes pre-packed with enough silly antics to make for a cute evening of light theater. This is, after all, a musical featuring inept pirates, Keystone Kops and a plot that hinges on a leap year loophole.
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Updated July 1