Archived Reviews for 06/07 Season

2006/2007 Season

The 2005/2006 ariZoni Awards

Letter from valley actor Tyler Maxson asking about my criteria for reviewing all levels of theatre, and my response

A Letter from Benjamin Medina asking about reviews for Arizona Broadway Theatre, and my response

A Letter from Branson Eckles complaining about Insurrection Theatre, and my Response

Reviews of Two Arizona Independent Films: The Governor and Netherbeast Incorporated

**Tempe Little Theatre's Hair 6/15/07 - 7/1/07**

**Off-Center Production's Speed-the-Plow 6/15/07 - 7/1/07**

Nearly Naked Theatre's Bat Boy: The Musical 6/2/07 - 6/30/07

Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre's The King and I 6/7/07 - 7/28/07

Fluffy Fun - But Where’s the Pillow Talk?
Paula Shulak reviews Hale Centre Theatre's Pillow Talk 5/17/07 - 6/30/07

Phoenix Theatre's Dream a Little Dream: The Nearly True Story of the Mamas and the Papas5/9/07 - 6/3/07

**@rtist Theatre Project's Die, Mommy, Die! 5/9/07 - 5/20/07 & iTheatre Collaborative's Bad Seed 5/10/07 - 6/2/07**

**Arizona Theatre Company's Molly's Delicious 4/27/07 - 5/27/07**

**Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre's The Full Monty 4/19/07 - 6/2/07**

**M&I Broadway in Arizona & ASU Gammage Auditorium's The Light in the Piazza 5/15/07 - 5/20/07**

Bring a Life Preserver to See Moby Dick
Paula Shulak reviews Desert Rose Theatre's Moby Dick - Rehearsed 5/10/07 - 5/19/07
Arizona Theatre Company's I Am My Own Wife 4/26/07 - 5/20/07

Go (only) If You Love Janis
Paula Shulak reviews Arizona Theatre Company's Love, Janis 5/4/07 - 5/20/07

A Video Clip from ATC's Production

The Loony Bin Never Looked So Good
Paula Shulak reviews Off Center Productions' Beyond Therapy 5/4/07 - 5/20/07

Nunsense in a Methodist Church?
Paula Shulak reviews Central Community Theatre's Nunsense! 5/4/07 - 5/20/07

**Actors Theatre's The Pillowman 4/26/07 - 5/13/07**

Is This What Audiences Really Think We Do Before We Open?: The Pillowman First Rehearsal Party

**Algonquin Theatre Company's Lonesome West 4/13/07 - 4/29/07**

A Quick Note of Agreement and Encouragement
Mesa Encore Theatre's The Last Five Years 4/13/07 - 4/29/07

**@rtist Theatre Project's Psycho Beach Party 4/13/07 - 4/29/07**

Show Tries But Just Doesn’t “Work”
Paula Shulak's review of Theater Works' Working 4/13/07 - 4/29/07

Dynamite Hits the MAC
Paula Shulak's Review of Mesa Encore Theatre's The Last Five Years 4/13/07 - 4/29/07

**Arizona Jewish Theatre Company's Bluish 4/14/07 - 4/29/07**

**The "He Said" review of arizona women theatre company's Well 4/6/07 - 4/29/07**

**Women’s Theatre Does “Well”
The "She Said" review of arizona women theatre company's Well 4/6/07 - 4/29/07**

Nunsense Lives! Only They're Boys!
Paula Shulak critiques ASU Gammage Auditorium's Altar Boyz 4/11/07 - 4/15/07

**Phoenix Theatre's Moonlight and Valentino 4/4/07 - 4/22/07**

**Stray Cat Theatre's Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy 3/30/07 - 4/21/07**

A Good Belly Laugh (With a Point)
Paula Shulak critiques Tempe Little Theatre's The Nerd 3/30/07 - 4/15/07

**Off-Center Productions' Copenhagen 3/30/07 - 4/15/07**

**Southwest Shakespeare's Cyrano de Bergerac 3/29/07 - 4/14/07**
iTheatre Collaborative's Frozen 3/16/07 - 3/31/07

A Great "Track" Record!
Paula Shulak reviews Copperstate Dinner Theatre's Funny Money 3/9/07 - 4/8/07

**Southwest Shakespeare Company's The Two Gentlemen of Verona 3/9/07 - 3/24/07**

**Central Community Players' The Musical of Musicals (The Musical) 3/9/07 - 3/24/07**

**Actors Theatre's Augusta 3/9/07 - 3/25/07**

Do the Doolittles Do Too Little?
Paula Shulak's review of Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre's My Fair Lady 3/1/07 - 4/14/07

**Hale Centre Theatre's The Scarlet Pimpernel 2/15/07 - 3/31/07**

Thumbs Up - All the Way!
Paula Shulak's review of Phoenix Theatre's Guys and Dolls 2/21/07 - 3/18/07

Intercultural Journeys of a Different Kind
Paula Shulak's review of Canyon Record's Concert The Native American and the Jewish Connection at the Mesa Arts Center 3/11/07

A Letter from Valley impressario Ben Tyler asking about my choice of not reviewing Nearly Naked Theater's Betty's Summer Vacation and my response

**Arizona Jewish Theatre Company's Brooklyn Boy 2/17/07 - 3/4/07**

**Theater Works' The Fantasticks 2/16/07 - 3/4/07**

**Algonquin Theatre Company's Harvey 2/16/07 - 3/4/07**

**Desert Rose Theatre's Twelfth Night; or What You Will 2/9/07 - 2/25/07**

**Space 55 Theatre Ensemble's The Book of Liz 2/9/07 - 2/25/07**

**arizona women's theatre company's Girl, 20 2/2/07 - 2/25/07**

**Stray Cat Theatre's 4:48 Psychosis 2/2/07 - 2/17/07**

**@rtist Theatre Project's tick...tick...BOOM! 1/11/07 - 2/18/07**

**Arizona Theatre Company's Souvenir Tucson: 1/13/07 - 2/3/07; Phoenix: 2/8/07 - 2/25/07**

**Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre's 42nd Street 12/29/06 - 2/24/07**

**ASU Gammage Auditorium's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 1/30/07 - 2/4/07**

**Actors Theatre's Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) 1/26/07 - 2/11/07**

**North Valley Playhouse's Getting Even 1/12/07 - 2/3/07**

**Mesa Encore Theatre's I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change 1/12/07 - 1/28/07**

**ASU Gammage Auditorium's 700 Sundays 1/16/07 - 1/27/07**

**Phoenix Theatre's Leading Ladies 1/12/07 - 1/27/07**

**Southwest Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 1/11/07 - 1/27/07**

**Jackson Fisher's Guest Review of Scottsdale Community Players' The Philadelphia Story 1/12/07 - 1/28/07**

**Paula Shulak's Guest Review of Scottsdale Community Players' The Philadelphia Story 1/12/07 - 1/28/07**

**Arizona Jewish Theatre Company's The Old Man's Friend 12/30/06 - 1/14/07**

**Hale Centre Theatre's Come Blow Your Horn 12/29/06 - 2/10/07**

**Tempe Little Theatre's Dinner With Friends 12/1/06 - 12/17/06**

**Nearly Naked Theatre's The Night of the Iguana 11/25/06 - 12/16/06**

**Scottdale Desert Stages Theatre's Disney's Beauty and the Beast 11/10/06 - 12/17/06**

**North Valley Playhouse's The Last Five Years 11/16/06 - 12/2/06**

**Southwest Shakespeare Company's Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge 11/17/06 - 12/2/06**

**Arizona Theatre Company's Jitney Tucson: 10/21/06 - 11/11/06; Phoenix 11/16/06 - 12/3/06**

**arizona women's theatre company's Living Out 11/3/06 - 11/26/06**

**Fountain Hill Community Theatre's Amadeus 11/3/06 - 11/18/06**

**Stray Cat Theatre's Fat Pig 11/3/06 - 11/18/06**

**Arizona Jewish Theatre Company's Vilna's Got a Golem 11/3/06 - 11/18/06**

**Hale Centre Theatre's Brigadoon 10/13/06 - 11/25/06**

**Actor's Theatre's The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow: An Instant Message with Excitable Music 10/26/06 - 11/12/06**

**Artists Theatre Project's Scream Queens 10/13/06 - 11/6/06
Mesa Encore Theatre's The Star Spangled Girl 10/13/06 - 10/29/06
North Valley Community Players' The Gin Game 10/5/06 - 10/28/06
Jackson Fisher's Guest Review of Algonquin Theatre Company's Merchant of Venice 10/13/06 - 10/29/06**

Posted at backstage.com
Phoenix Theatre Honors Praised and Bashed

**Desert Rose Theatre's She Stoops to Conquer 10/5/06 - 10/21/06Posted at backstage.com
Arizona Theatre Company's Twelfth Night; or What You Will 10/5/06 - 10/22/06**
Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre's A Chorus Line 9/28/06 - 11/11/06
Southwest Shakespeare's The Tempest 9/28/06 - 10/15/06
Desert Stages Theatre's Gypsy 9/22/06 - 10/15/06

**Scottsdale Community Players' Evita 9/22/06 - 10/15/06**

Overreaching for the Stars: A Guest Review by Jackson Fisher
**Scottsdale Community Players' Evita 9/22/06 - 10/15/06**

**Copperstate Dinner Theatre's Greater Tuna 9/15/06 - 10/29/06**

**Actors Theatre's The Reduced Shakespeare Company in Completely Hollywood (Abridged) 9/15/06 - 10/1/06**

**Phoenix Theatre's Thoroughly Modern Millie 9/13/06 - 10/8/06**Posted at backstage.com
Southwest Shakespeare Company's London Assurance 9/7/06 - 9/23/06

**Tempe Little Theatre's A Chorus Line 9/8/06 - 9/24/06**

**Stray Cat Theatre's Falling Petals 9/8/06 - 9/23/06**

Posted at backstage.com
Teatro Bravo's The Hispanick Zone 9/1/06 - 9/17/06

**ASU Gammage Auditorium and M&I Bank's Broadway in Arizona's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 9/12/06 - 9/17/06**

**Space 55 Theatre Ensemble's LBJFKKK 9/1/06 - 9/16/06**

**Hale Centre Theatre's You Can't Take It With You 8/25/06 - 10/7/06
Nearly Naked Theatre's Take Me Out 8/19/06 - 9/16/06**

**Valley Youth Theater's Cats 8/11/06 - 8/27/06**

**Space 55 Ensemble Theater's America First: Made in Hong Kong 8/10/06 - 8/19/06
Is What It Is Theater's Proof 8/10/06 - 8/12/06**

**Insurrection Theater Company's Vamp 8/4/06 - 8/12/06**

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