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Celebrate the Season with ‘The Sound of Music’ at The Phoenix Theatre Company

November 24, 2019 Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

The Sound of Music is one of the most iconic shows of Broadway’s Golden Age. Known to nearly all, in some form or fashion, and sacred to many. However, popularity can be a double-edged sword. While it equates to a most-assured larger potential audience, there are also expectations that everyone has going into the performance. We all know what the songs should sound like, in the best case scenario. And those preconceived notions are inherently baked in, so the cast always has an uphill battle to fight from the outset…

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of The YabYum Hour: Confessions from the Nocturne Nebula

November 23, 2019 Anna Katen Bonnie Anderson Carly Schorman Dale I. Rasmussen Featured Articles Garrett Bowers Mark Anderson Radio Phoenix

On this special edition of The YabYum Hour, hosts Anna and Bonnie along with Young Garrett talk with some of the cast + crew of Confessions from the Nocturne Nebula. Austin Campbell, Carly Schorman, Dale Rasmussen, and Mark Anderson talk with the team all about this new science-fiction podcast and also play some rad jams they’ve been into lately…

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Blue Man Group Leaves Audience ‘Speechless’ at ASU Gammage

November 21, 2019 Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

My introductory encounter with the Blue Men occurred on my first trip to New York City when I was in high school. The show was unlike anything I had ever encountered. Pervasive, insightful and rather mind-blowing. When I experienced it again, over a decade later, it felt like I was essentially seeing the same show. Everything my memory retained was showcased gloriously, and I delighted in the nostalgia of it. But it didn’t feel like it had evolved. That has changed with the Speechless tour…

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An Inside Look at La Gattarra Cat Lounge & Boutique

November 20, 2019 Arts & Culture Featured Articles Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen

When looking for a drag show in the Phoenix metro-area, you won’t be hard-pressed to find at least one event taking place between Tuesday to Saturday in the later evening hours, with most taking place in Melrose District queer bars with distinct pinache. But what of the folks who can’t stay out late or prefer not to frequent bars? In a valley where even some of the “drag brunches” take place at drinking establishments, a peculiar event recurs monthly on the crossroads of Dorsey and University at La Gattarra Cat Lounge & Boutique, simply titled: Drag Bingo + Cats. La Gattarra translates into English from Italian and loosely means: “the crazy cat lady”…

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of It’s Not Our Fault: Our Parents’ Music

November 17, 2019 Amy Young Featured Articles It's Not Our Fault Radio Phoenix Tom Reardon

On this very special edition of It’s Not Our Fault, Tom and Amy play “your parents’ music” or, more specifically, “their” parents’ music. They share some music they first heard through their parental units, how they felt about it then, and how they feel about it now. Stick around for some interesting songs and stories from the INOF crew…

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Stray Cat Theatre’s ‘American Psycho: The Musical’ Strikes at Tempe Center for the Arts

November 17, 2019 Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

A blood-stained shirt draped over a chair in the center of a room. Commercials from the nineteen eighties blaring overhead, into your bloodstream, from an intentionally forgotten period of cultural subversion. The mood is set. The show begins. And after a brief moment of overwhelming static and piercing radio waves, Toby Yatso – a megastaple of local Phoenix theatre – is standing on a nearly-bare stage, nearly-bare himself as Patrick Bateman…

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