Once upon a painting
After seeing a piece by artist Mark Rothko at the Phoenix Art Museum, Lynn Trimble enjoys the play "Red" -- which imagines Rothko's back-and-forth with a budding painter.
View ArticleYoung artists win Arizona competition
I’m told there’s rarely a shortage of entries in the vocal category when the Arizona Young Artists’ Competition hits the Herberger Theater Center each year. But at least one vocalist found a way to...
View ArticleBeyond the black swan
Still trying to get those disturbing “Black Swan” film scenes out of your head? I know just the thing: children. Lots and lots of children, dancing in a whimsical take on “Swan Lake” performed with “a...
View ArticleOther desert cities
Phoenix. Palm Springs. Baghdad. Kabul. All cities located in desert regions. All home to conflicts of one sort or another — sometimes personal, sometimes political. But often both. “Other Desert...
View ArticleSharing “Secrets”
Frances Smith Cohen got to wondering, while staring one day at her own family’s portrait, what other people might see when looking at the picture. Those musings, she revealed during a recent...
View ArticleLost boys take center stage
Three stools sit atop two planks on the Kax Stage at Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix. They’re flanked by a pair of murals painted by Edgar Fernandez, a young artist living in Tolleson who studies...
View ArticlePersonal panethnicity
“I grew up with people of many different colors,” recalls Anne Allemann, whose work is featured in an exhibition called “Personal Panethnicity” at the Herberger Theater Art Gallery in Phoenix. “I...
View ArticleDog and pony show
A steady stream of people strode through double glass doors to admire artworks during my most recent visit to Tempe Marketplace, where ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts presents works...
View ArticleVoodoo, blue herons & molecules
A sleepwear-clad man sits staring out the window as his sister enters, distraught her brother has upset their usual routine by fetching his own cup of coffee from the kitchen. Eventually they settle...
View ArticleTV writer Rick Cleveland pens “Five Presidents” play
I suspect most Americans given the chance to reunite five historical figures in one room for drinks and conversation wouldn’t pick recent presidents. But that’s just what playwright Rick Cleveland does...
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