As summer heat increases, so does downtown activity. Here’s a lineup of weekend events.... Read more»
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, check out the The Tucson Folk Festival and enjoy some of the many family-friendly (and some not so family-friendly) events in downtown this weekend.... Read more»
There’s something funny about Blue Man Group – both funny ha-ha and funny peculiar. Created as performance art by Chris Wink, Phil Stanton and Matt Goldman in New York City in 1987, their concept literally has taken on a life of its own. Yes, there’s plenty to laugh about and enjoy, but there’s also something deeper, something primal and surreal.... Read more»
It doesn’t seem like two years since “Wicked” was in Tucson last. Yet so much has changed. It’s a great feel-good show, a sterling example of contemporary theatre arts. But In the process, it has become a bit more corporate: reliable, but less edgy; consistently entertaining, but a little less magical. ... Read more»
Terry Bracy, Buckmaster Washington, D.C. contributor, leads off the show with an update from the capital. Then, financial planner Shelly Fishman has the Tuesday Money Maker report. Also, Mark V. Sykes, head of the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, and Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly Arts Editor.... Read more»
Art imitates life in Invisible Theatre’s “First Kisses.” Playing the lifelong couple John and Mary in the play by Jay D. Hanagan are real-life couple Harold and Maedell Dixon. The results are sweet, though predictable, as we follow them from their first meeting as youngsters through the vicissitudes of a lifetime together.... Read more»
Bastard (Theatre)‘s production is something of a reprise of Johnson’s wildly popular 2009 production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” for Live Theatre Workshop’s late night Etcetera series.... Read more»
“Love Song,” the latest University of Arizona theatre production, is one wacky work. The protagonist, Beane, is a soft-focus character and has only a passing relationship with reality. His sister, Joan, is a hard-edged career woman, who fires people for crying.... Read more»
Washington contributor Terry Bracy reports on the very full agenda for the new Congress. Then, financial planner Shelly Fishman has the Tuesday Money Maker Report, and nutrition reporter Jack Challem on cold and flu protection. Plus, Tucson Weekly Arts Editor Margaret Regan.... Read more»
The setting is London, Sept. 3, 1939, the day that England will officially enter World War II against Nazi Germany. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, is dying of cancer. C. S. Lewis at the time is a largely unknown Oxford University English professor.... Read more»
Beowulf Alley’s production of “Three Hotels,” penned by Jon Robin Baitz, is a love story of sorts, telling the story of Kenneth and Barbara Hoyle, two idealistic former Peace Corp volunteers, now older but not necessarily wiser. Fine acting overcomes structural deficiencies in this mature tale of innocence lost.... Read more»
Hotel Congress’ “Dillinger Days” returns this weekend, bringing back memories of bootleggers, bankrobbers and straight bourbon.... Read more»
If it hadn’t have been for Spike Lee, I might have blissfully ignored “Django Unchained,” the much-talked-about Quentin Tarantino movie about a revenge-minded slave set in pre-Civil War America. There’s nothing like a race-based pop culture contretemps to provoke racial chatter.... Read more»
Chamber Plus Southwest this weekend celebrates the centennial of Cage’s birth with “John Cage @ the Cabaret,” an original work by Harry Clark that focuses on the life of the avant garde composer and the impact of 4’33’‘.... Read more»
Arizona Theatre Company’s production of “Jane Austen’s Emma” is a pleasant confection, with excellent performances, especially by Disney TV’s Anneliese van der Pol in the title role.... Read more»
The play “‘Marie Antoinette” follows the historic timelines of French Revolution, but it is not an historical drama. Rather it is a post-modern translit amalgam of styles and truths. Director Teresa Simone has taken a small chamber work and given it symphonic strength and scope.... Read more»
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