Richard Warren News

BURNING IN THE NIGHT: A HOBO'S SONG is as fine a piece of theatrical artistry as one will find in the Valley of the Sun. On stage at the Mesa Arts Center from February 6th-8th and continuing on February 13th at Theatre Works in Peoria, Richard Warren's brilliant adaptation of Dale Wasserman's epic memoir, directed by Dan Schay and masterfully performed by Mike Lawler, needs to be seen not only for the quality of the production but also for the sweet and compelling reminder of freedom's real meaning.

Mesa Arts Center Foundation will present the East Valley premier of Burning in the Night: A Hobo's Song, a play based on the memoir by the late Dale Wasserman, the award-winning playwright best known for Man of La Mancha and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Burning in the Night: A Hobo's Song tells the tales of a Hobo, one of the many who rode the rails of America in the 1930s, looking for work. It is based on the experiences of Dale Wasserman, the award-winning playwright best known for Man of La Mancha and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Richard Warren's Shifting Gears is an intelligent and poignant portrait of an American family in transition. Played out on the stage of Theater Works and astutely directed by Daniel Schay, it features a standout performance by Frank Gaxiola as a father fundamentally committed to the centrality of family and unyielding in his efforts to retain control of the uncontrollable.

Mesa Arts Center Foundation will present the East Valley premier of Burning in the Night: A Hobo's Song, a play based on the memoir by the late Dale Wasserman, the award-winning playwright best known for Man of La Mancha and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Tickets for performances on Feb. 6, 7 and 8 in the Nesbitt/Elliot Playhouse are available at mesaartscenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.

Theater Works at the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA) presents Shifting Gears, a humorous, and touching dramatic comedy about family - opening this Friday night, January 9th.

Theater Works at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts announces the opening of its NewWorks Festival "WESTival" this Friday, July 11, 2014.

Theater Works at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts announces its first NEW WORKS Festival taking place during the month of August. Patrons can see original scripts brought to life through moving performances, as they are read on stage for the first time.

Theater Works at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts announces its first NEW WORKS Festival taking place during the month of August. Patrons can see original scripts brought to life through moving performances, as they are read on stage for the first time.

BELZ! THE JEWISH VAUDEVILLE MUSICAL is the story of a movement that ultimately had a profound effect on American popular culture as Jewish performers from Eastern Europe and their immediate descendants took their acts from the shtetls to the rest of the world.

It is summer 1961, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In their cabin by the lake, Henry and Annie arrive for their traditional Memorial Day gathering with their two children. But the world is changing around them and this family is buffeted by the conflicts that come from the clash between desires and expectations.

It is summer 1961, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In their cabin by the lake, Henry and Annie arrive for their traditional Memorial Day gathering with their two children. But the world is changing around them and this family is buffeted by the conflicts that come from the clash between desires and expectations.

Theater Works - Peoria Center for the Performing Arts Resident Theatre Company will present the dramatic stories of a real-life legendary hobo in Dale Wasserman's Burning in the Night: A Hobo's Song opening tonight, January 25, 2013 and playing through February 24, 2013.

Theater Works - Peoria Center for the Performing Arts Resident Theatre Company will present the dramatic stories of a real-life legendary hobo in Dale Wasserman's Burning in the Night: A Hobo's Song opening January 25, 2013 and playing through February 24, 2013.

January 5 through 13, Canyon Moon Theatre, Sedona's professional regional theater, brings the excitement of new play work to northern Arizona at the first annual Sedona New Play Festival. Sponsored by the Sedona Community Foundation, Allie Ollie Boutiques and The Hilton Sedona Golf Resort & Spa., this Festival brings together playwrights, directors and actors to do reading of new works.

The humor, warmth and emotional intensity of Katherine Paterson's Newbery Awarding winning novel, Bridge to Terabithia, unfolds on the stage through February 27, at the Coterie Theatre, level 1 Crown Center Shops.

While flying his kite in Central Park, a mentally challenged man is attracted by an Albanian flutist who escaped to New York from Kosova. This is the beginning of Richard Warren's Trio with Flute which closes at Canyon Moon Theatre January 23, 2011.

The humor, warmth and emotional intensity of Katherine Paterson's Newbery Awarding winning novel, Bridge to Terabithia, unfolds on the stage January 18 through February 27, at the Coterie Theatre, level 1 Crown Center Shops.

While flying his kite in Central Park, a mentally challenged man is attracted by an Albanian flutist who escaped to New York from Kosova.

While flying his kite in Central Park, a mentally challenged man is attracted by an Albanian flutist who escaped to New York from Kosova.