Jevetta Steele News

Martin Sheen, along with Ellie Dehn, Jearlyn Steele, Jevetta Steele and Sara Watkins, will be among the special guests performing on A Prairie Home Companion, hosted by Garrison Keillor at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday, July 13. The long-running, live radio show, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is now touring, and the Hollywood Bowl will be the last stop on the tour, concluding the show's 38th season.

Mixed Blood Theatre's Center of the Margins festival offers it all in a line-up of three disparate but complementary plays that explore the complex world of disability.

Mixed Blood Theatre's Center of the Margins festival offers it all in a line-up of three disparate but complementary plays that explore the complex world of disability.

With the goal of revolutionizing access to theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre announced today the launch of Radical Hospitality, which will offer no-cost admission to all mainstage productions for all audience members beginning with the upcoming 2011-12 season. An expansion of the company's egalitarian mission, Radical Hospitality erases economic barriers in pursuit of building a truly inclusive, global audience.

The Guthrie Theater welcomes Penumbra Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's gripping drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, directed by Penumbra artistic director Lou Bellamy.

It's 1927 and Ma Rainey, the Mother of the Blues, strides into a rundown Chicago recording studio to join a battling quartet of musicians. The great playwright August Wilson places this formidable artist at the center of a captivating drama of flamboyant personalities, professional jealousy, and shattered dreams. Directed by Lou Bellamy, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM plays in Tucson at the Temple of Music and Art from October 16 through November 6. It continues its run in Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center from November 11 through November 28. The Tucson media sponsors for the 2010-2011 season are KGUN9, MIX-FM and Tucson Lifestyle. Arizona Theatre Company's season sponsors are I. Michael and Beth Kasser.

It's 1927 and Ma Rainey, the Mother of the Blues, strides into a rundown Chicago recording studio to join a battling quartet of musicians. The great playwright August Wilson places this formidable artist at the center of a captivating drama of flamboyant personalities, professional jealousy, and shattered dreams. Directed by Lou Bellamy, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM plays in Tucson at the Temple of Music and Art from October 16 through November 6. It continues its run in Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center from November 11 through November 28. The Tucson media sponsors for the 2010-2011 season are KGUN9, MIX-FM and Tucson Lifestyle. Arizona Theatre Company's season sponsors are I. Michael and Beth Kasser.

Phantom of the Opera, a new musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell plays through July 18 at The Players Theatre. A bold new vision of the classic French novel by Gaston Leroux, this heart-racing musical unravels the mystery of a passionate man living deep beneath the grand Paris Opera House. Was he a madman? A musical genius? Or just a lonely soul yearning to be loved? Phantom is an intimate production filled with intrigue, passion, danger and desire featuring provocative music performed by a live chamber ensemble at the Players Theatre.

Phantom of the Opera, a new musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell plays through July 18 at The Players Theatre. A bold new vision of the classic French novel by Gaston Leroux, this heart-racing musical unravels the mystery of a passionate man living deep beneath the grand Paris Opera House. Was he a madman? A musical genius? Or just a lonely soul yearning to be loved? Phantom is an intimate production filled with intrigue, passion, danger and desire featuring provocative music performed by a live chamber ensemble at the Players Theatre.

Phantom of the Opera, a new musical by Michael Sgouros and Brenda Bell plays through July 18 at The Players Theatre. A bold new vision of the classic French novel by Gaston Leroux, this heart-racing musical unravels the mystery of a passionate man living deep beneath the grand Paris Opera House. Was he a madman? A musical genius? Or just a lonely soul yearning to be loved? Phantom is an intimate production filled with intrigue, passion, danger and desire featuring provocative music performed by a live chamber ensemble at the Players Theatre.

Arizona Theatre Company creates the most thrilling professional theatre in the Southwest in 2010-2011, with electric moments of pure beauty, magic and deeply felt emotion in a mix of comedy, drama, classics and musicals. The new season opens with the Southwest premiere of the musical BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS, about the journey of Hollywood goddess Ginger Rogers; followed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson's MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, directed by Lou Bellamy and starring renowned recording artist Jevetta Steele as Ma Rainey. ATC's new season follows with the Arizona premiere of WOODY GUTHRIE'S AMERICAN SONG, directed by ATC favorite Randal Myler, followed by the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's TEN CHIMNEYS set at the legendary summer estate of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play LOST IN YONKERS continues ATC's AMERICA PLAYS! Celebrating Great American Stories initiative for a fourth season; and a twelfth anniversary revival of audience favorite, THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP, with the original ATC cast and designs. The 2010-2011 season also includes a limited engagement presentation of The Acting Company and Guthrie Theater's production of ROMEO AND JULIET.