The Rogue Theatre has mounted a quality budget production that Shakespeare himself might smile at for its achievements in entertainment value. “The Winter’s Tale” is not great as far as Shakespeare goes, but it is Shakespeare nonetheless, still among our best literature in the last 500 years.... Read more»
“The New Electric Ballroom” by Enda Walsh is a 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival prize winner, firmly in the Theatre of the Absurd tradition with Godot overtones.... Read more»1
Sometimes it feels like children’s theater, sometimes vaudeville, sometimes theater of the absurd – but throughout, “Shipwrecked” is simply fun, fun, fun.... Read more»
The Rogue Theatre will join theatres around the country Oct. 24 in presenting a staged reading of Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here,’ as the cautionary tale of American fascism gets a 75th anniversary revival.... Read more»
9/11 memorials, Bernstein, Shaw and Stoppard are among the shows hitting Tucson stages in September with the start the fall 2011 theatre season.... Read more»
“The Decameron” is a large work, not quite epic, but complex and multilayered. It demands the audiences’ full attention throughout. Those up to the challenge will be rewarded. ... Read more»
Throughout the play, now on at the Rogue Theatre, Pinter circles around to the same words, activities and images he has already presented, repeating but contradicting, layering different meanings and interpretations on top of our prior notions.... Read more»1
Henrik Ibsen’s 1881 recipe for drama - illicit affairs, illegitimate children, venereal disease, prostitution, even incest - form the sexual underbelly of his play “Ghosts.”... Read more»1
Watching Rogue Theatre’s “Nāga Mandala (Play With A Cobra),” you understand how ancient Greeks must have felt watching the early Dionysian plays in the hills outside of Athens. Or even earlier, the emotions of people in prehistoric times as they huddled around a fire watching the re-enactment of a hunt.... Read more»1
After the summer malaise, the Tucson theatre season starts back in earnest this month. Last week, Winding Road Theatre Ensemble kicked it by premiering a new work by Toni Press-Coffman. This weekend, Arizona Theatre Company, Rogue Theatre and Beowulf Alley Theatre open their seasons, followed closely by Arizona Repertory Theatre, Invisible Theatre, Borderlands, et al.... Read more»
Rogue Theatre is currently presenting three of Beckett’s short works: “Act Without Words I,” “Not I,” and the better known “Krapp’s Last Tape.” Each features different aspects of Beckett’s spare and controversial style.... Read more»1
The Rogue Theatre’s new permanent home is helping boost attendance for their avant garde productions. According to Joe McGrath, artistic director of the company, attendance at this season’s first project, Animal Farm, was up by 30 percent over previous shows.... Read more»
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