ARIZONA THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 190

They're baaacccckkk! All Puppet Players are poised to pounce! And for their sixth season, they are bringing the best of prolific puppetry to EVER grace a stage.

In Phoenix Theatre's Season-opening production of CHICAGO, Michael Barnard has gathered a storm of production quality ~ uplifting music, sexy and vintage costumes, elegant set design, and kickass choreography.

The classic musical, telling the story of the author Cervantes and his creation, Don Quixote, opens Theater Works' 30th Anniversary Master Works Season on Friday, October 9 with Man of La Mancha.

Theater Works 30th Season opens tonight, September 11 with the YouthWorks production of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, the story of Mowgli, an orphaned man-cub and his jungle adventures.

Scottsdale Musical Theater Company is proud to present the Arizona premiere of the musical revue SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM with a cast of some of the Valley's best talent.

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Dylan Gardner has been touring nearly non-stop since the release of his debut album, Adventures in Real Time, on Warner Bros Records.

Theatre Artists Studio in Phoenix presents a stirring production of Beth Henley's CRIMES OF THE HEART, directed by Brad Allen and featuring a compelling performance by Dee Rich as the eldest of the three Magrath sisters.

Cambrian James once again demonstrates his remarkable directorial gifts by elevating a light-hearted comedy, SOMETHING'S AFOOT, into a showcase of marvelous gags and surprises and demonstrating just how joyous and side-splitting melodrama can be.

?Theater Works 30th Season continues with the Youth Works production of The Secret Garden opening Friday, November 6.

Theater Works' revolutionary PuppetWorks season continues with Boo! A Halloween Spooktacular in the black light style of puppetry which causes the puppets, scenery and even the audience to glow-in-the-dark.

Fountain Hills Theater is proud to announce the opening of the classic war-time musical South Pacific.

Two of the Valley's favorite and most-celebrated actors will bring their special gifts to the holiday season in limited engagement one-person performances of Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, and David Sedaris' hilarious anti-holiday tale, The Santaland Diaries.

The Great AZ Puppet Theater recently announced its current and upcoming shows for September.

Held against the backdrop of Sedona's breathtaking red rock vistas, the Sedona Arts Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this fall.

VYTal Affair 2015, Valley Youth Theatre's annual fundraising event that took place at The Herberger Theater Center on Saturday, August 22nd has proven to be a tremendous success - raising more than $175,000 for the local non-profit youth theatre.

LUCKY STIFF, the rib-tickling musical farce by the team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty is ringing out Arizona Broadway Theatre's hit-loaded 10th Anniversary Season with broad peals of laughter and a cast that you'll walk away loving.

Arizona Theatre Company, in a special collaboration with Stray Cat Theatre, will present Laura Eason's new comedy about the calculations people are making to find love or fame in an age of social media, brightly-lit phone screens and blogging.

Beth Henley's hysterical and touching exploration of the foibles and challenges of the three wacky Magrath sisters comes to the Theatre Artists Studio in the first production of the season.

The world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will be in residence at Mesa Arts Center September 24-26.

Caitlin Newman delivers a powerhouse performance in iTheatre Collaborative's production of George Brant's GROUNDED, directed by Rosemary Close, running through September 5th in the Kax Stage at the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix.

Scottsdale Musical Theater Company presents GYPSY, featuring Debra Qualtire, Terry Gadaire, and Sarah Cassidy at Tempe Center for the Arts from August 20th through the 23rd.

Kids Alive, the youth musical theater training program at Theater Works, continues auditions this weekend August 23 from 5:00 - 7:00pm.

Theater Works is reinventing the way we think of puppet shows with this season of PuppetWorks.

Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre is proud to kick off it's 21st Season with the our first On Stage production of Legally Blonde Jr opening today, August 21st and runs through September 20th, 2015.

Mesa Arts Center this week announced three additional shows in the 2015-16 Performing Live Season.