ARIZONA THEATRE NEWSROOM

MusicaNova Orchestra will close its 2025–2026 season with Calming Waters: Sibelius & Frank at Tempe Center for the Arts, featuring works spanning Finland, Ukraine, Peru, and Singapore.

EL DORADO'S GOLD by Sonja Camille, a play following a Black cowboy seeking redemption, will run May 7-10 at ASU Kerr in Scottsdale, AZ, presented by The Bridge Initiative and Simply Livin' Productions.

Love is one of the most wonderful parts of human existence; it is beautiful, but one of the hardest things a person can experience.

Lynne Griffin leads EVEN UNTO DEATH, an audio theatre production from Arizona Theatre Matters premiering May 30, Joan of Arc's Feast Day.

The Phoenix Theatre Company will present Ever After, a new musical inspired by the beloved 1998 film starring Drew Barrymore, with performances from May 6 to June 14, 2026, in the new Dr.

Black Theatre Troupe will present BETWEEN MASKS AND MIRRORS, a one-woman show by Toni Robinson.

009, LICENSE TO THRILL is the latest melodrama to grace the stage at The Gaslight Theatre! Pure popcorn entertainment (with popcorn included!), this musical is filled with belly laughs and action! Written by Peter VanSlyke and adapted and directed by Katherine Byrnes and Mike Yarema, LICENSE TO THRI

ANITA is a joyful celebration of humanity.

A small, sincere musical that reaches for neither spectacle nor modernity.

The Nash in Phoenix launched JD's at The Nash, a full-service bar funded by The John Dawson Foundation.

By the mid-1920s the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo) were already well known on the vaudeville circuit.

Marsha Mason has long been defined by her film work in the 1970s and ’80s, and by her storied marriage to the late Neil Simon.

A tour de force, a musical perfectly crafted and performed, and directed by Dzifa Kwawu with remarkable precision.

INSIDE OUT is a truly moving piece of theatre.

In anticipation of ATC's The Roommate, director Marsha Mason sat down to discuss her insight, her history with this play, and how her past experience uniquely positioned her to tell this incredible story.

With four actors on a generally bare deck, and a whale that exists in our imagination, the old story of compulsion and the sea finds a fresh, unexpectedly playful life.

This production is filled with sparkling wit and fantastic performances!

THE ROOMMATE is a clever and well-acted production.

What’s more satisfying than watching six wronged women reclaim their power? Watching them do it in rhinestone corsets, backed by a thunderous girl band and enough LED lighting to short-circuit Times Square.

Stephen Casey, the director and choreographer of Arizona Broadway Theatre’s production of PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL, understands something essential about adapting a modern fairy tale, especially one rooted in a Rodeo Drive fantasy, for the stage: unless the performers anchor the story in authenti

Nearly 161 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre as he watched a production of OUR AMERICA COUSIN.

Every couple deserves a space to feel safe, accepted, celebrated, and normal.

THE RIVER by Jez Butterworth is now playing at The Rogue Theatre, and it packs a punch.

UNCLE VANYA arrives at Theatre Artists Studio with thoughtful intentions and a capable ensemble, though the results are somewhat uneven.

As a senior in high school who is graduating this spring, my schedule is starting to get tighter and tighter as deadlines start to close faster.