Arizona Theatre Company's 'American Song'

Folk singer Woody Guthrie gets cleaned up for company

Arizona Theatre Company’s “Woody Guthrie’s American Song” is a celebration of the folk singer’s music and the turbulent historical period in which he lived. It is an idealized portrait, long on music, with vignettes from Guthrie’s life to provide context.... Read more»1

Cirque du Soleil brings peculiar magic of 'Alegria' to Tucson

You can still run away and join the circus. Cirque du Soleil is hiring. Who wouldn’t want to work for a company whose mission statement is “to invoke the imagination, provoke the senses and evoke the emotions of people around the world?”... Read more»1

Fine performance invigorates Ibsen's 'Ghosts'

Henrik Ibsen’s 1881 recipe for drama - illicit affairs, illegitimate children, venereal disease, prostitution, even incest - form the sexual underbelly of his play “Ghosts.”... Read more»1

All Souls Procession: Lively celebration of all things dead

Tucson’s annual All Souls Procession is a strange and fantastic event. It can be disturbingly grotesque and inspiringly beautiful. Awe, fear, sadness and joy all mix freely in the the most emotionally complex public event you will find in America... Read more»

'The Color Purple' still opens our eyes

The fictional story of Celie Harris is, hopefully, less about race (though it can not and should not be discounted) and more about our humanity and the range of cruelty and joy that we are capable of experiencing.... Read more»1

'Transylvanian Clockworks' breathes new life into undead

At some point the undead will outlive their current cultural cachet. That time will not come before the current run of “The Transylvanian Clockworks” at Beowulf Alley Theatre ends. This is a very different take on the Dracula myth.... Read more»

SoundQuest Fest 2010

Ambient sound artist Steve Roach hosts epic concert

Steve Roach uses sound and music to create vast mythic worlds. His ethereal use of tone and rhythm in three dimensional space is psychedelic in the classic shamanistic sense, shifting and altering the listener’s perception of time and location.... Read more»

Performance artists pledge to 'relive magic' at Club Congress

Before there was desert rock, there was an attraction of another sort at Tucson’s Club Congress: performance art. Friday night, some of the performance artists from those days gone by will have their chance to again do their thing.... Read more»

Despite education cuts, arts still available to most schoolchildren

Big cuts to public education funding over the past two years have fueled fears that dance, music, theater and other arts won’t be as available to students. But a new report on Arizona schools suggests that isn’t the case.... Read more»

Nāga Mandala (Play With A Cobra)

Rogue Theatre's snaking narrative meditates on reality

Watching Rogue Theatre’s “Nāga Mandala (Play With A Cobra),” you understand how ancient Greeks must have felt watching the early Dionysian plays in the hills outside of Athens. Or even earlier, the emotions of people in prehistoric times as they huddled around a fire watching the re-enactment of a hunt.... Read more»1

Let the plays begin: Fall theatre preview

After the summer malaise, the Tucson theatre season starts back in earnest this month. Last week, Winding Road Theatre Ensemble kicked it by premiering a new work by Toni Press-Coffman. This weekend, Arizona Theatre Company, Rogue Theatre and Beowulf Alley Theatre open their seasons, followed closely by Arizona Repertory Theatre, Invisible Theatre, Borderlands, et al.... Read more»

Theatre: McChrystal’s last act

How the “runaway general” contributed to a stage play about the conflict in Afghanistan.... Read more»

Second Saturday spices up city center

Photo gallery: The Second Saturdays Downtown festival offered a range of entertainment from street performers like living statues, breakdancing b-boys, stilt walkers and live music of many genres.... Read more»2