History in the Making: World Premiere Musical Brings Broadway Vets to Phoenix

  By Jen Barraza As The Phoenix Theatre Company brings its 105th season to a jubilant close, the spotlight turns to Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo, a world premiere musical infused with jazz, resilience, and the brilliance of Broadway’s finest. Opening August 8 in the Hormel Theatre, this vibrant production is…

Building Tomorrow’s Artists and Audiences – One Program at a Time

    By Shelina Elyse At The Phoenix Theatre Company, we believe theatre is more than entertainment – it’s a powerful tool for building community. Through our patrons’ generous support, we are able to extend that belief beyond the stage with Summer Camp, the Professional Apprenticeship Program, and Community Nights. These programs reach people where…

Who Are Partners That Heal?

By Shelina Elyse The Partners That Heal are a highly trained six-member team of improvisational actors with a repertoire of well over 250 patient interventions, including interactive games, songs, puppetry, instruments and dance. Not only do they bring joy and relief through this powerful program, but you may recognize some of them from recent appearances…

Inside the Actor’s Process: The Cast of Into the Woods on Technique and Transformation

By Theresa Kellar Tonner   Stansislavski. Misner. Method. Adler. There are many different techniques and practices that actors can learn on their own or in school to hone their craft.    Some like to use the emotional recall and sense memory of the Stanislavski method, some dig deeper and will go full Method acting, which…

Behind the Beat: A First Look at the World Premiere of Let the Good Times Roll

By Jen Barraza   At The Phoenix Theatre Company, our publicity photoshoots are never just about capturing an image. They are about telling a story. With Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo, the story we’re telling is bigger than just one show. This world premiere musical marks the beginning of a new…

Broadway Bound – NYC, What is it about you? 

  Audra McDonald as Mama Rose in Gypsy, Tatianna Córdoba as Ana García in Real Women Have Curves, Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. and Darren Criss as Oliver & Helen J Shen as Claire in Maybe Happy Ending. The four Tony Award nominated shows our attendee’s saw on this year’s Broadway Bound…

Funny, Devastating, Brilliant: The Mastery of Into the Woods

  By Matt Schaefer Theatre kids of a certain generation, myself included, were formed in the time of the great British mega-musical. You know the ones, Cats, Les Mis, Phantom, Miss Saigon.  But, tucked among them was one show with more heart than flash and funnier and smarter than an episode of Seinfeld. Sondheim gets…