Archived Reviews of Past Productions

1999/2000 Season

The 1999/2000 ariZoni Recipients

In Mixed Company's Quills - 7/27/00 - 8/19/00

Scottsdale Community Players' 1940s Radio Hour - 7/28/00 - 8/6/00

Theater Works' Born Yesterday - 7/14/00 - 7/30/00

Algonquin Theater Company's Dear Liar - 7/7/00 - 7/23/00

Planet Earth Theatre's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom - 6/30/00 - 7/29/00

LHG Productions' When Pigs Fly - 6/22/00 - 7/9/00

Shakespeare Sedona's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 6/16/00 - 7/9/00

Stagebrush Theatre's Little Shop of Horrors - 6/16/00 - 6/25/00

Theater Works' Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know - 6/9/00 - 6/25/00

The Ensemble Theatre's The Swan - 6/9/00 - 6/25/00

The Shakespeare Theatre's Pericles, Prince of Tyre - 6/8/00 - 6/25/00

Feast of Fools Theatre's Fight Club - 6/2/00 - 6/18/00

Tempe Little Theatre's The Odd Couple (Female Version) - 5/26/00 - 6/11/00

Arizona Theatre Company's The Flying Karamozov Brothers L'Universe at The Orpheum Theatre - 5/23/00 - 5/28/00

Phoenix Theatre's Beehive, The 60's Musical - 5/12/00 - 5/28/00

Actors Theatre of Phoenix's The Arizona Project - 5/12/00 - 5/28/00

On The Spot Theatre's The Man with the Ladylike Hands - 5/11/00 - 5/28/00

Theatre League's West Side Story - 5/9/00 - 5/14/00

Arizona Theatre Company's The First Hundred Years - 5/6/00 - 5/21/00

Stagebrush Theatre's The Will Rogers Follies - 5/5/00 - 5/28/00

Theatre Works' Clue: The Musical - 5/5/00 - 5/28/00

A Letter Concerning My Review of Theater Works' Clue: The Musical, and Response

Nearly Naked Theatre's Lilies - 5/4/00 - 5/27/00

Actors' Renaissance Theatre's 2000 Valley of the Sun Shakespeare Festival Featuring Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and Shakespearean Voices (Twelfth Night will be reviewed) - 4/28/00 -5/12/00

ASU Lyric Opera Theatre's H.M.S. Pinafore - 4/21/00 - 4/30/00

ASU Department of Theatre's The Origin of the Sea - 4/14/00 - 4/30/00

Planet Earth Theatre's Hair - 4/13/00 - 4/30/00

Alternative Theatre Company's Lummox, Texas - 4/7/00 - 4/30/00

Is What It Is Theatre's Much Ado About Nothing - 4/7/00 - 4/16/00

A letter from the President of Is What It Is Theatre concerning my review of Much Ado About Nothing

Theater Works' Lion in Winter - 3/31/00 - 4/16/00

Black Theatre Troupe's Joe Turner's Come and Gone - 3/30/00 - 4/16/00

Phoenix Theatre's Six Degrees of Separation - 3/22/00 - 4/9/00

Arizona Theatre Company's As You Like It: TUCSON - 3/3/00 to 3/19/00, PHOENIX - 3/24/00 to 4/9/00 (Reviewed on Tucson's opening night)

The Ensemble Theatre's Beyond Therapy - 3/17/00 - 4/2/00

Actors Theatre of Phoenix' Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show - 3/17/00 - 4/2/00

Scottsdale Community Players' The Diary of Anne Frank - 3/17/00 - 4/2/00

Mesa Little Theatre's Noises Off! - 3/10/00 - 3/26/00

A letter from a Board Member of Mesa Little Theatre concerning my review of Noises Off!

A letter from an Actress in MLT's Noises Off!

ASU Gamage Auditorium's Valley Broadway Series The Sound of Music - 3/14/00 - 3/19/00

Desert Foothills Theatre's The Wallace & Ladmo Show - 3/2/00 - 3/19/00

ASU Department of Theatre's Measure for Measure - 2/25/00 - 3/12/00

Theater Works' La Cage aux Folles - 2/11/00 - 3/12/00

ASU Lyric Opera Theatre's Pippin - 2/25/00 - 3/5/00

Arizona Jewish Theatre Company's Dear Esther - 2/19/00 - 3/5/00

A reminder that not everyone hates critics...

Theatre League's The Who's Tommy- 2/22/00 - 2/27/00

Another TommyKnocker

Black Theatre Troupe's Train is Comin' - 2/10/00 - 2/27/00

Phoenix Theatre's Tintypes - 2/11/00 - 2/27/00

Arizona Theatre Company's Side Man - 2/3/00 - 2/20/00

Scottsdale Community Players' Guys & Dolls - 1/28/00 - 2/20/00

Actors Theatre of Phoenix' Hedda Gabler - 1/28/00 - 2/13/00

Southwest Shakespeare Company's Macbeth - 1/20/00 - 2/5/00

Desert Foothills Theater's Noises Off - 1/20/00 - 1/30/00

Theatre Maxim's A Theatre Maxim Cabaret - 1/13/00 - 1/29/00

Theater Works' The Heidi Chronicles - 1/7/00 - 1/30/00

The Shakespeare Theatre's Macbeth - 1/6/00 - 1/23/00

Black Theatre Troupe's The Old Settler - 1/6/00 - 1/23/00

Arizona Theatre Company's The Mystery of Irma Vep - Tucson - 12/3/99 - 12/19/99 & Phoenix - 12/30/99 - 1/23/00 (Phoenix run extended one week)

HERE IT IS! A special backstage peek at ATC's The Mystery of Irma Vep during the 1/9/00 matinee performance

Request for a backstage review of ATC's "The Mystery of Irma Vep," and response...

Actors Theatre of Phoenix' A Christmas Carol - 12/11/99 - 12/26/99

Tempe Little Theatre's Inspecting Carol - 12/3/99 - 12/19/99

Phoenix Theatre's Uh Oh, Here Comes Christmas - 12/3/99 - 12/23/99

Stagebrush Theatre's Into the Woods - 12/3/99 - 12/19/99

Theatre Maxim's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea - 12/2/99 - 12/11/99

Arizona State University Department of Theatre's A Sense of Place or Virgil is Still the Frogboy - 12/1/99 - 12/5/99

Black Theatre Troupe's Mahalia - 11/11/99 - 12/5/99 (Run extended one week)

Mesa Little Theatre's Snoopy!!! - 11/12/99 - 11/28/99

A request from a cast member of MLT's Snoopy!!!

Arizona Theatre Company's Master Class - 11/12/99 - 11/28/99

Theater Works' Getting Away With Murder - 10/29/99 - 11/28/99

Arizona Jewish Theatre Company's The Gift Horse - 11/6/99 - 11/21/99

Phoenix Theatre's Twigs - 11/5/99 - 11/21/99

Planet Earth Theatre's Late Night Showing of Psycho Beach Party - 10/22/99 - 11/20/99

America West Airlines' Valley Broadway Series' Art - 11/9/99 - 11/14/99

Stagebrush Theatre's Charley's Aunt - 10/29/99 - 11/14/99

A letter concerning my review of SBT's Charley's Aunt, and response...

Actor's Theatre of Phoenix' The Baltimore Waltz - 10/15/99 - 10/31/99

Black Theatre Troupe's Willie & Esther - 10/14/99 - 10/31/99

A letter concerning my review of BTT's Willie & Esther, and responses...

Arizona Theatre Company's Play On! The New Duke Ellington Musical - 10/7/99 - 10/31/99

In Mixed Company's The Vampires - 10/7/99 - 10/30/99

Actors' Renaissance Theatre's Valley of the Sun Shakespeare Festival, featuring Hamlet - 9/30/99 - 10/10/99

ASU Lyric Opera Theatre's Bye Bye Birdie - 10/1/99 - 10/10/99

Phoenix Theatre's How To Succeed In Business (Without Really Trying) - 9/24/99 - 10/10/99

Theater Works' Blame It On The Movies - 9/17/99 - 10/17/99

The Ensemble Theatre's Reckless-9/10/99 - 9/26/99

Tempe Little Theatre's Relatively Speaking-9/10/99 - 9/26/99

Stagebrush Theatre's Barnum-9/2/99 - 9/26/99

Stagebrush Theatre's Barnum Goes On...


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