Receive Weekly Email and Text Message Updates:
Sign up for latest info on concerts, dining, promotions and more!
Go!

Related Stories ...

National Features >

  • Miami New Times

    Fidel Castro Needs a Hug

    It's not easy sharing a name with Miami's most hated despot.

    By Gus Garcia-Roberts

  • City Pages

    A Teabuggers' Odyssey

    A Minnesota boy's rise to power in America's right wing.

    By Andy Mannix

  • Riverfront Times

    Moon Lady

    Loved by everyone from Stereolab to Tony Kushner, the odd and enchanting Lucia Pamela was an outsider to remember.

    By Aimee Levitt

  • Phoenix New Times

    Dead to Rights

    Even in a Wild West state like Arizona, killing someone in self-defense is a complicated affair.

    By Ray Stern

Best Musical

Pinocchio Commedia

Share

  • rss

Published on October 17, 2002

Unheralded local director Christopher Clegg and out-of-town author Johnny Simons brought zest to Theatre for Young America's superb and evocative Pinocchio Commedia. The songs weren't Gershwin, but the show was tremendous. Its cast -- including Heidi Gutknecht, Jake Walker and a fire-eating Matt Rapport -- effortlessly transformed itself into a traveling Italian theater troupe staging its giddy show-within-a-show, and Valerie Mackey's set and William (Matt) Hill's masks called up an entertainment-starved Tuscan village.