Author: Stanford Friedman

Monsoon Season

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Oct 31, 2019 | Reviews

Dust storms and flash flooding are hallmarks of Arizona’s monsoon season. But in playwright Lizzie Vieh’s Monsoon Season, destructive forces come from within.

Fifty Million Frenchmen

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Oct 1, 2019 | Reviews

The title is a reference to the 1927 Sophie Tucker hit, “Fifty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong,” but a better title might have been “A Bunch of Americans in Paris,” or perhaps, “Everything Goes.”

Bat Out of Hell – The Musical

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Aug 11, 2019 | Reviews

Just when you thought that the sanitary jukebox musical had supplanted the messy rock opera, along comes Bat Out of Hell to set things right.

Road Show

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Jul 26, 2019 | Reviews

In a show that begins with a gold rush and ends with the burst of a real estate bubble, most everything goes downhill.

Leaving Eden

Posted by Stanford Friedman | Jul 19, 2019 | Reviews

By turns, charming, sexy, melancholy and righteous, this pairing of an ancient myth and a contemporary parable explores the creation of empowerment and the empowerment that comes with creation.