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Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's poetic masterpiece of jealousy, prejudice and betrayal, takes on a bold new theatricality under the ambitious and creative hand of award-winning director Kirsten Brandt and scenic, lighting and projection designer David Lee Cuthbert from March 26 through April 12 at t

ASU Gammage -- celebrating its 50th Anniversary -- announces the Golden Gammage Initiative (GGI), a $16.

The Choose Your Own Adventure series for children ~ stories calling on the reader to make choices for the characters at critical turning points in a plot ~ is a nifty concept on which to base a musical entertainment, and the multi-talented Jamie Elizabeth Maletz has taken an inspired, if not fully r

April is Jazz Appreciation month and in recognition, the Nash announces a new series of classes for the public to learn about the history of jazz by examining the great masters.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present Kevin Pollak's Chat Show Live featuring Special Guest Matthew Perry on Saturday, March 14, at 8 p.

New York theatre director Phillip Fazio has teamed up with Los Angeles actress Sarah Wolter, who is making her directorial debut, and together have directed a hauntingly poignant production of Carousel for Mesa Encore Theatre.

A boy meets a girl, they fall in love, and perhaps they would have lived happily ever after had it not been for the terrible feud between their families.

Arizona Broadway Theatre (ABT) today announced the classic rock musical Rock Of Ages as the final addition to its stellar Season 11 lineup.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present the international smash hit Menopause The Musical for an eight-show engagement, March 31 to April 5, in the Virginia G.

The 2014-15 Broadway on Center series, presented at Mesa Arts Center in partnership with WestCoast Entertainment, brings National Touring Broadway production Nice Work If You Can Get It, a madcap tale full of crazy antics, to Mesa Arts Center for performances today, March 3 and tomorrow, March 4 at

Till Then (Bis Gleich), a 21-minute narrative short film capturing the unspoken connection between two elderly neighbors who share a daily ritual - but never actually met - that deepens when they face the inevitable together, won both the Director's Choice and Audience Choice Awards at the 21st annu

Prentice Powell, the first spoken word artist to appear on The Arsenio Hall Show, will headline the second event in Mesa Arts Center's Spoken World series tonight, Feb.

Theatre Artists Studio presents The Heiress, from tonight, February 27 through March 15 at The Studio, 4848 E.

spark! Mesa's Festival of Creativity is a free, immersive event for all ages held at Mesa Arts Center.

The Immigration Paradox, the 2012 documentary written and directed by Lourdes Lee Vasquez, seeks the truth about the immigration issue, its causes, what and who are driving the noise of polarization, and what will it take to resolve the issue.

Rooted in Peace chronicles Greg Reitman's odyssey to answer these crucial questions: Why are we so crazy? Does pop culture teach us how to be violent? Is there a peace game? How do we transcend the collective trauma that we derive from our constant exposure to violence? Why is peace so difficult to

Prescott Center for the Arts presents GRAPES OF WRATH, adapted by Frank Galati and directed by Jon Meyer, running Feb 26, 27, 28, Mar 5, 6, & 7 at 7:30 Mar 1 & 7 at 2:00

SAND CASTLES, written and produced by Jordon Hodges and directed by Clenet Verdi-Rose, and featuring the stunning performance of Anne Winters, is a powerful and haunting tale of a child lost but found, her path to recovery after a decade of captivity, and the toll it takes on a family.

The Arizona premiere of FOLLIES opened on the Gyder Stage at the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts on February 20, 2015.

After breaking box office records and selling out in record time in 2012, WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will return to Tempe's ASU Gammage.

'JACK RABBIT AND THE DESERT TORTOISE': This funny version of Aesop's 'Tortoise and the Hare' fable features slow and steady Dusty the Desert Tortoise in an epic race against wild Jack the Jackrabbit, set in the Sonoran desert.

Hurray for Advanced Style, a manifesto in film that calls upon us to free ourselves from society's fixation on commercialized notions of beauty and aging! The special joy of the movie is the introduction to a bevy of enchanting beauties, role models in their own right.

Under the direction of Philip Fazio, Stephen Sondheim's Follies is receiving Arizona's first fully produced production at Theater Works.

The line between hope and despair is thread-thin.

Theater Works announces the Arizona premiere of FOLLIES.