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The Nash, Arizona’s home for world-class jazz performance and education, is now accepting auditions and registrations for its 2025–26 youth jazz ensembles.

Experience The Bob Marley Experience at Mesa Arts Center on September 27, 2025.

The Scottsdale Philharmonic will kick off its 2025-26 season with a concert on Sept.

Of course, off-color references are only gratuitous when taken out of context.

The Nash in Phoenix has announced its 2025–2026 Performance Series, a single curated season featuring ten performances from internationally acclaimed jazz artists and rising stars.

In an age of displacement, inherited trauma, and cultural fragmentation, two short films –WEAVING and SPRING BREEZE, TAIWAN – directed by Taiwanese American filmmaker Hsuan Yu Pan, offer deeply resonant reflections on how art can restore identity, rebuild community, and help us remember who we a

Black Theatre Troupe will open its 2025–2026 season with GRACE & GLORIE a warm and incisive two-character play by Tom Ziegler, directed by Chanel Bragg.

In celebration of the first preview of this world premiere of Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo, Joy Machine Records has released a concept album of the show, featuring performances by John Edwards, Tony Award winner J.

Jack Viertel’s world premiere musical, LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL: A New Orleans Gumbo, opens tonight at the Phoenix Theatre Company.

There's an unwritten rule in theatre that if the actors have fun the audience will have fun.

Scottsdale Arts has announced a new creative partnership with Cattle Track Arts Compound in Scottsdale, AZ, that will bring expanded programming, artist residencies, and a career-development initiative for emerging artists to the historic site.

The Great Arizona Puppet Theater will bring the beloved American folk tale The Little Engine That Could to life from August 21 through September 20, 2025, with performances designed especially for young audiences.

Scottsdale Arts has revealed a fresh slate of programming for the 2025–26 season, continuing the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.

 Theatrikos Theatre Company has announced its upcoming production of Rebecca Gilman's poignant and timely drama, Swing State.

The Scottsdale Philharmonic recently concluded its season with a sold-out Independence Day concert.

Theatrikos Theatre Company, NAU Theatre, Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival, and Stargazer Collaborative Theatre are joining forces to present a one-of-a-kind Flagstaff Theatre Season Preview Night called Flagstaff Takes The Stage.

The Great Arizona Puppet Theater has announced a change to its upcoming schedule: instead of Jack & the Beanstalk, the venue will present an encore run of Winnie-the-Pooh from August 14 to 17, 2025.

Lea Salonga, Jeremy Jordan and more are a part of the Broadway series at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts during the venue's 50th anniversary season.

This season, leading up to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Scottsdale Symphonic Orchestra will deliver “The American Journey: Struggle, Spirit, and Triumph,” a six-concert series at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.

Chandler Center for the Arts has announced new performances for its 2025–2026 season.

After 39 years as a vital cultural force in the Southwest—and 11 years of community-driven leadership—Borderlands Theater has announced a rebrand that reflects its evolving vision, rooted in deep collaboration and creative transformation.

The Great Arizona Puppet Theater will reopen its doors on August 21, 2025, following a brief closure from August 7–17, with a heartwarming production of THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD.

For all its clashing parts, like an overstuffed jewelry box where diamonds, pearls, and plastic trinkets jangle together, MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL’s visuals are hard to resist, and that’s what most audiences will respond to.

The Arizona Masterworks Chorale has appointed Darren S.

Black Theatre Troupe has unveiled its 2025–2026 season, featuring poignant dramas, vibrant musicals, and BTT’s legendary holiday tradition and more.