Tom Koelbel News

Theatre Artists Studio is closing its already impressive Season with Robert Anderson's I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER. Directed by Steve Fajardo, the presentation is appropriately stark and focused. A simple set with the bare essentials gives the right space to a string of stirring performances, featuring Tom Koelbel, Charles Sowder, and Judy Lebeau. The show runs through May 13th.

Robert Anderson's biographical play has become a classic of American theatre and film. It courageously takes on the huge themes of familial love and devotion, individual aspiration and obligation, honing in on the unvarnished realities in the lives of one family, infecting and challenging all of their relationships.

At the end of every Season, the members of the creative collective known as Theatre Artists Studio put their muses to work and author, produce, direct, and act in a series of playlets. This year's installment of NEW SUMMER SHORTS, the company's 11th, includes a mix of eight 10-15 minute plays, each of which has something to satisfy one's theatrical palate. Some amusing, some inspiring, some provocative, some whimsical ~ all together, a satisfying potpourri.

Summer in Arizona means two things: Triple digit temperatures and blazing creativity at Theatre Artists Studio as we present our 11th annual 'New Summer Shorts' festival of 10-minute plays!

Judy Rollings and Patti Suarez are delightful as the antagonists in Theatre Artists Studio's rendition of David Lindsay-Abaire's RIPCORD, directed by David Weiss.

Two Old Broads Productions presents the Arizona premier of Ripcord by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. Hilarity trumps sensibility in this high-stakes comedy about two women locked in a no-holds barred battle over pride and territory.

Theatre Artists Studio's Carol McLeod has created a taut and well-paced interpretation of STOREFRONT CHURCH. Her cast delivers the goods, balancing wit and intensity to produce a provocative reflection on the limits of morality. The show runs through March 12th.

John Patrick Shanley's Storefront Church is runing at Theatre Artists Studio (4848 E. Cactus Rd, #406, Scottsdale, AZ 85254) thru March 12, 2017. Carol MacLeod directs.

John Patrick Shanley's Storefront Church is runing at Theatre Artists Studio (4848 E. Cactus Rd, #406, Scottsdale, AZ 85254) thru March 12, 2017. Carol MacLeod directs.

John Patrick Shanley's Storefront Church will run at Theatre Artists Studio (4848 E. Cactus Rd, #406, Scottsdale, AZ 85254), February 24, 2017 - March 12, 2017.

BAKERSFIELD MIST, Stephen Sachs's adaptation of the true story of Teri Horton's quest to authenticate a Jackson Pollock painting, is the featured offering at Theatre Artists Studio in Phoenix.

John Patrick Shanley's Storefront Church will run at Theatre Artists Studio (4848 E. Cactus Rd, #406, Scottsdale, AZ 85254), February 24, 2017 - March 12, 2017.

Maude, a fifty-something unemployed bartender living in a trailer park, has bought a painting for a few bucks from a thrift store. Despite almost trashing it, she's now convinced it's a lost masterpiece by Jackson Pollock worth millions.

The Studio proudly presents Bakersfield Mist by Stephen Sachs. This play is a hilarious and thought-provoking comedy-drama that asks vital questions about what makes art - and people - truly authentic.

Maude, a fifty-something unemployed bartender living in a trailer park, has bought a painting for a few bucks from a thrift store. Despite almost trashing it, she's now convinced it's a lost masterpiece by Jackson Pollock worth millions.

Michael Fleck's TIDE POOLS ~ a creative, contemplative, and lovely 'paean' to Steinbeck ~ is one of eight engaging short plays on themes comical and whimsical and all relevant in Theatre Artists Studio's ninth annual festival of innovations, New Summer Shorts.

Summer in Arizona means two things: Triple digit temperatures and blazing creativity at Theatre Artists Studio as we present our 9th annual 'New Summer Shorts' festival of 10-minute plays! Join us for this audience favorite, which features a sizzling selection of shorts penned by Studio members. Take a break from the heat this summer and plunge into the Studio's cool pool of talented theatre artists.

The promise of Conor McPherson's masterpiece, THE WEIR, is half-fulfilled in its Arizona Regional Premier at Theatre Artists Studio. The play's structural elegance cannot be denied, nor can McPherson's muscularity of language be overlooked. The problem lies in the delivery. Neither do the performances rise to the level required to open the floodgate of emotion and tension that is at the heart of THE WEIR, nor do the technical effects set the essential mood.

THE WEIR by Conor McPherson will be directed by Carol MacLeod at Theatre Artists Studio, February 26 - March 31, 2016.

The Studio is honored to present the Arizona Regional Premier of this haunting, sometimes funny, and always poignant play by Conor McPherson. The telling of stories binds us together and when you can't tell the story from the story teller, you have theater. The Weir has been unanimously hailed by critics