Articles Tagged With: Mia Bray

Shrek at Phoenix Festival Theatre

Reviews March 14, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther Leave a comment

They’re gonna shake you! They’re gonna bake you! A donkey! Pot! Whoopsie. That’s the wrong iteration of that show…now let’s see here…I made the left onto Thomas Run Road…got turned around at Maleficent’s castle— oh! Oh there it is. Phoenix Festival Theatre! Hiding out at The Amoss Center with their production of Shrek the musical! (Which does not include “Donkey Pot Pie”, not even sure that song ever made it off Broadway!) Directed by Emily Jewett with Musical Direction by Mia Bray and Choreography by Samantha Jednorski,

Natalie Giovan as Carrie in Carrie The Musical at Street Lamp Community Theatre ???? Matthew Peterson

Carrie at Street Lamp Community Theatre

Reviews July 26, 2024 Amanda N. Gunther

Street Lamp Community Theatre. They’re here to tell you how this whole damn freak show works. And once you’ve seen…you can’t unsee. Known for their edgy, unusual choices in musicals that are rarely produced, SLCT is bringing you a dark and bloody thriller for the ages! Directed by Matthew Peterson with Musical Direction by Mia Bray and Choreography by Stephanie Peterson, Carrie is here to thrill you with a few shivers up the spine from the powerhouse company belt-blasting their way through this haunting score.

Spring Awakening at Street Lamp Community Theatre

Reviews August 5, 2023 Richard Mahoney

Street Lamp Community Theatre- “The Little Theater That DOES!” presents a beautiful production of a haunting yet poignant story. Spring Awakening is a coming-of-age story of teenagers in 1905 Germany. Originally, The Awakening of Spring was written in 1891 by German playwright Frank Wedekind. Spring Awakening is the reimagined story of Wedekind’s as a rock musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik. SLCT’s Spring Awakening is not to be missed.

Beauty & The Beast at Phoenix Festival Theatre. ????Matthew Peterson

Beauty and The Beast at Phoenix Festival Theatre

Reviews March 3, 2023 Amanda N. Gunther

Well, who’d have thought? Well, bless my soul! Well, who’d have guessed? Well, who indeed? That Phoenix Festival Theatre would be sold out before you could be their guest? Just wait and see— standing room at least— that’s all that’s left for their stunning production of Beauty and The Beast. Disney has a funny way of enchanting ticket buyers to purchase tickets before the run even truly gets underway. Good luck finding someone who wants to give up their ticket to this sold-out performance.

Mikey Floyd (left) as Will with Eric Bray Jr. (center) as Johnny and Austin Barnes (right) as Tunny in American Idiot. ????Matthew Peterson AUGUST 2022

American Idiot at Street Lamp Community Theatre

Reviews August 5, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives! This is their lives on holiday! Take a holiday from your summer holiday and get all the gritty, grungy, emotional-super-charge you need to power through the back-half of this blistering, climate-change-infested, politically unstable nightmare that is the America that we now live in. Don’t want to be an American Idiot? Then get your ass up to Rising Sun and check out Street Lamp Community Theatre’s production of Green Day’s American Idiot.

Young Frankenstein at Street Lamp Community Theatre

Reviews May 12, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

When it comes to making monsters— you can’t beat the Frankensteins! And when it comes to producing live musical theatre in crafty clever way that suits the uniquely intimate performance space tucked away in the corner of the state in Rising Sun— you can’t beat Street Lamp Community Theatre. Currently animating a production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein— directed by Allan Herlinger with musical direction by LaShelle Bray and choreography by Christie Janney— Street Lamp Community Theatre is puttin’ on the Ritz;