Peoria Center for the Performing Arts Resident Theatre Company, Theater Works, Announces Upcoming Season
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2013
Theater Works Executive Director, Dan Schay, and Artistic Director, Robyn Allen, have announced a new season of five sensational productions that include a selection of hit musicals,comedies and dramatic plays, as well as the return of a holiday favorite. Plus, an all NEW logo (see above) and a fantastic new website are 'in the works' at Theater Works.
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2013
Theater Works Executive Director, Dan Schay, and Artistic Director, Robyn Allen, have announced a new season of five sensational productions that include a selection of hit musicals,comedies and dramatic plays, as well as the return of a holiday favorite. Plus, an all NEW logo (see above) and a fantastic new website are 'in the works' at Theater Works.
TAJ MAHAL TRIO Comes to Mesa Arts Center, 4/17
by BWW News Desk - March 22, 2013
Mesa Arts Center will welcome Taj Mahal Trio on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 in the Ikeda Theater at 7:30 p.m. If the mixing of genres such as blues, Zydeco, gospel, and Latin music seems natural today, it is because of pioneers like Mahal. Tickets are available through the Mesa Arts Center Box Office at MesaArtsCenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.
by BWW News Desk - March 22, 2013
Mesa Arts Center will welcome Taj Mahal Trio on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 in the Ikeda Theater at 7:30 p.m. If the mixing of genres such as blues, Zydeco, gospel, and Latin music seems natural today, it is because of pioneers like Mahal. Tickets are available through the Mesa Arts Center Box Office at MesaArtsCenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.
PETER RABBIT Comes to Great AZ Puppet Theater, Now thru 3/31
by BWW News Desk - March 20, 2013
The Great Arizona Puppet Theater will present PETER RABBIT from today, March 20-31, 2013.
by BWW News Desk - March 20, 2013
The Great Arizona Puppet Theater will present PETER RABBIT from today, March 20-31, 2013.
Tickets On Sale for SISTER ACT at ASU Gammage, 6/25-30
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2013
Featuring original music by 8-time Oscar winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors), SISTER ACT tells the story of Deloris Van Cartier, a wannabe diva whose life takes a surprising turn when she witnesses a crime and the cops hide her in the last place anyone would think to look-a convent! Under the suspicious watch of Mother Superior, Deloris helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she unexpectedly rediscovers her own.
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2013
Featuring original music by 8-time Oscar winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors), SISTER ACT tells the story of Deloris Van Cartier, a wannabe diva whose life takes a surprising turn when she witnesses a crime and the cops hide her in the last place anyone would think to look-a convent! Under the suspicious watch of Mother Superior, Deloris helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she unexpectedly rediscovers her own.
Diamond Ball's 20th Anniversary Celebration Set for 4/13
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2013
The West Valley Arts Council celebrates the 20th anniversary of The Diamond Ball at the Shanghai Soiree with a four-course feast, dancing, silent auction and a diamond jewelry giveaway on Saturday, April 13 at The Wigwam, 300 E. Wigwam Blvd in Litchfield Park.
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2013
The West Valley Arts Council celebrates the 20th anniversary of The Diamond Ball at the Shanghai Soiree with a four-course feast, dancing, silent auction and a diamond jewelry giveaway on Saturday, April 13 at The Wigwam, 300 E. Wigwam Blvd in Litchfield Park.
Mesa Encore Theatre Presents SPRING AWAKENING, Opening 4/5
by BWW News Desk - March 18, 2013
Mesa Encore Theatre will present SPRING AWAKENING at the Mesa Arts Center, April 5 - 21, 2013.
by BWW News Desk - March 18, 2013
Mesa Encore Theatre will present SPRING AWAKENING at the Mesa Arts Center, April 5 - 21, 2013.
Scottsdale Musical Theater Company Announces THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, Opening 5/9
by BWW News Desk - March 18, 2013
SMTC has announced their next production, the tap dancing musical sensation Thoroughly Modern Millie. Performances will take place at the intimate 300-seat Dorrance Auditorium on the beautiful campus at Phoenix Country Day School in Paradise Valley. All SMTC shows feature the best local talent in the valley and a live orchestra.
by BWW News Desk - March 18, 2013
SMTC has announced their next production, the tap dancing musical sensation Thoroughly Modern Millie. Performances will take place at the intimate 300-seat Dorrance Auditorium on the beautiful campus at Phoenix Country Day School in Paradise Valley. All SMTC shows feature the best local talent in the valley and a live orchestra.
THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!) Opens Tonight at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts
by BWW News Desk - March 15, 2013
Theater Works - Peoria Center for the Performing Arts Resident Theatre Company - invites you to experience a hilarious and sassy production, The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) - a musical about...musicals, opens tonight, Friday, March 15, 2013.
by BWW News Desk - March 15, 2013
Theater Works - Peoria Center for the Performing Arts Resident Theatre Company - invites you to experience a hilarious and sassy production, The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) - a musical about...musicals, opens tonight, Friday, March 15, 2013.
Arizona Theatre Company Announces 2013-2014 Season
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2013
As the preeminent professional theatre in the state, Arizona Theatre Company (ATC) announces its 47th season with the production of six electrifying plays for 2013-2014, with performances in Tucson and Phoenix. David Ira Goldstein, ATC's Artistic Director, announced the season that will include the Arizona premieres of three of Broadway's newest smash hits, a delightful long-running Broadway musical comedy and will revisit two cherished classic stories in vibrant new productions.
by BWW News Desk - March 14, 2013
As the preeminent professional theatre in the state, Arizona Theatre Company (ATC) announces its 47th season with the production of six electrifying plays for 2013-2014, with performances in Tucson and Phoenix. David Ira Goldstein, ATC's Artistic Director, announced the season that will include the Arizona premieres of three of Broadway's newest smash hits, a delightful long-running Broadway musical comedy and will revisit two cherished classic stories in vibrant new productions.
SPARK! Festival of Creativity Set for Mesa Arts Center, Now thru 3/17
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2013
spark! Mesa's Festival of Creativity is a free, five day event offering food, music, fun interactive experiences for the whole family, all providing an immersive environment to celebrate the work of amazing, creative people. The festival will take place at the Mesa Arts Center (MAC) during Spring Break, from today, March 13 through Sunday, March 17, running from noon-9pm Wednesday-Saturday, and noon-7pm on Sunday.
by BWW News Desk - March 13, 2013
spark! Mesa's Festival of Creativity is a free, five day event offering food, music, fun interactive experiences for the whole family, all providing an immersive environment to celebrate the work of amazing, creative people. The festival will take place at the Mesa Arts Center (MAC) during Spring Break, from today, March 13 through Sunday, March 17, running from noon-9pm Wednesday-Saturday, and noon-7pm on Sunday.
PCA Presents Readers' Theatre to Present BLACK GIRL IN SEARCH OF GOD, 3/23 & 4/20-23
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2013
Prescott Center for the Arts (PCA) Readers' Theatre is proud to present BLACK GIRL IN SEARCH OF GOD by Dan H. Lawrence, directed by Parker Anderson.
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2013
Prescott Center for the Arts (PCA) Readers' Theatre is proud to present BLACK GIRL IN SEARCH OF GOD by Dan H. Lawrence, directed by Parker Anderson.
Audra McDonald Comes to Mesa Arts Center, 3/29
by Kelsey Denette - March 08, 2013
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actress. With five Tony Awards, sharing the record for most Tonys won by an actor with Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury, two Grammy Awards, and a long list of other accolades to her name, she is among today's most highly regarded performers. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling, she is equally at home on Broadway and opera stages as in roles on film and television.
by Kelsey Denette - March 08, 2013
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actress. With five Tony Awards, sharing the record for most Tonys won by an actor with Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury, two Grammy Awards, and a long list of other accolades to her name, she is among today's most highly regarded performers. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling, she is equally at home on Broadway and opera stages as in roles on film and television.
WORD BECOMES FLESH Plays Mesa Arts Center, 3/8-9
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2013
The Mesa Arts Center presents Word Becomes Flesh, a show about the thoughts and fears of African American men as they each await the birth of their first child using spoken word, dance and live music. The show runs tonight, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 9 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Both shows will be in the Nesbitt Elliott Playhouse.
by BWW News Desk - March 08, 2013
The Mesa Arts Center presents Word Becomes Flesh, a show about the thoughts and fears of African American men as they each await the birth of their first child using spoken word, dance and live music. The show runs tonight, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 9 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Both shows will be in the Nesbitt Elliott Playhouse.
PETER RABBIT Comes to Great AZ Puppet Theater, 3/20-31
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2013
The Great Arizona Puppet Theater will present PETER RABBIT from March 20-31, 2013.
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2013
The Great Arizona Puppet Theater will present PETER RABBIT from March 20-31, 2013.
Dick Bowers, Tucson Artist Jim Waid, Southwest Ambulance, Marshall Magnet School Win Governor's Arts Awards
by Kelsey Denette - March 07, 2013
Tucson artist Jim Waid, whose abstract work reflects the magnificence of Arizona's plants and animals and is represented in more than 40 major collections from Arizona to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, received the Artist Award at the 2013 Governor's Arts Awards on March 6 at The Herberger Theater Center.
by Kelsey Denette - March 07, 2013
Tucson artist Jim Waid, whose abstract work reflects the magnificence of Arizona's plants and animals and is represented in more than 40 major collections from Arizona to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, received the Artist Award at the 2013 Governor's Arts Awards on March 6 at The Herberger Theater Center.
World-Premiere of SHIFTING GEARS Plays Canyon Moon Theatre, Now thru 3/24
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2013
It is summer 1961, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In their cabin by the lake, Henry and Annie arrive for their traditional Memorial Day gathering with their two children. But the world is changing around them and this family is buffeted by the conflicts that come from the clash between desires and expectations.
by BWW News Desk - March 07, 2013
It is summer 1961, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In their cabin by the lake, Henry and Annie arrive for their traditional Memorial Day gathering with their two children. But the world is changing around them and this family is buffeted by the conflicts that come from the clash between desires and expectations.
PCA's Young Playwrights Festival Results Announced
by Kelsey Denette - March 06, 2013
Northpoint Learning Academy student Jason Bartley won the Judges' Choice Award for The Writer's Block while Grand Canyon School student Hailey Gaebel won the Audience Choice Award for The Inner Monster at the 3rd Annual Young Playwrights Festival (YPF) hosted by the Prescott Center for the Arts (PCA) on March 3.
by Kelsey Denette - March 06, 2013
Northpoint Learning Academy student Jason Bartley won the Judges' Choice Award for The Writer's Block while Grand Canyon School student Hailey Gaebel won the Audience Choice Award for The Inner Monster at the 3rd Annual Young Playwrights Festival (YPF) hosted by the Prescott Center for the Arts (PCA) on March 3.
Regional Dance Company of the Week: EPIK Dance Company, AZ
by BWW Special Coverage - March 05, 2013
This week, we turn to Phoenix, AZ, to feature the EPIK Dance Company, a non-profit organization dedicated to uniting and uplifting people by sharing their love of music, movement, and the arts. Scroll below to get to know them!
by BWW Special Coverage - March 05, 2013
This week, we turn to Phoenix, AZ, to feature the EPIK Dance Company, a non-profit organization dedicated to uniting and uplifting people by sharing their love of music, movement, and the arts. Scroll below to get to know them!
David Green, Jon Lutyens and More Star in Arizona Theatre's THE SUNSHINE BOYS, Now thru 3/23
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2013
Arizona Theatre Company (ATC) brings Neil Simon's comic masterpiece about show business, friendship and growing old, 'The Sunshine Boys' to Arizona audiences. David Ira Goldstein directs one of Neil Simon's most beloved and acclaimed plays in ATC's new production that will premiere in Tucson for three weeks of performances and continue to Phoenix for an additional three weeks. ATC's 'The Sunshine Boys' opens at the Temple of Music and Art, running from tonight, March 2, 2013 through March 23, 2013. It continues its run in Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center from March 28, 2013 through April 14, 2013.
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2013
Arizona Theatre Company (ATC) brings Neil Simon's comic masterpiece about show business, friendship and growing old, 'The Sunshine Boys' to Arizona audiences. David Ira Goldstein directs one of Neil Simon's most beloved and acclaimed plays in ATC's new production that will premiere in Tucson for three weeks of performances and continue to Phoenix for an additional three weeks. ATC's 'The Sunshine Boys' opens at the Temple of Music and Art, running from tonight, March 2, 2013 through March 23, 2013. It continues its run in Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center from March 28, 2013 through April 14, 2013.
Theater Works Stages TIM O'TOOLE AND THE WEE FOLK, Now thru 3/23
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2013
Theater Works at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts presents TIM O'TOOLE AND THE WEE FOLK. A bit of good luck is never out of reach-as long as you look for the 'Wee Folk.'
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2013
Theater Works at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts presents TIM O'TOOLE AND THE WEE FOLK. A bit of good luck is never out of reach-as long as you look for the 'Wee Folk.'
World-Premiere of SHIFTING GEARS Plays Canyon Moon Theatre, 3/7-24
by Emily Stubbs - February 28, 2013
It is summer 1961, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In their cabin by the lake, Henry and Annie arrive for their traditional Memorial Day gathering with their two children. But the world is changing around them and this family is buffeted by the conflicts that come from the clash between desires and expectations.
by Emily Stubbs - February 28, 2013
It is summer 1961, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In their cabin by the lake, Henry and Annie arrive for their traditional Memorial Day gathering with their two children. But the world is changing around them and this family is buffeted by the conflicts that come from the clash between desires and expectations.
MCC's Act I Musical Productions Presents THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, Now thru 3/9
by BWW News Desk - February 28, 2013
Mesa Community College's Act I Musical Productions presents The Pirates of Penzance, opening tonight, February 28th in Mesa, AZ in the newly renovated MCC Theatre, featuring a student cast and a mentor/guest-artist cast featuring Music Department Chair, SueAnne Lucius in the role of 'Ruth,' Katherine Stewart, Artistic Director of Desert Rose Theatre as 'Mabel,' and other members of our music faculty and alumni. THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE features Book by W.S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan.
by BWW News Desk - February 28, 2013
Mesa Community College's Act I Musical Productions presents The Pirates of Penzance, opening tonight, February 28th in Mesa, AZ in the newly renovated MCC Theatre, featuring a student cast and a mentor/guest-artist cast featuring Music Department Chair, SueAnne Lucius in the role of 'Ruth,' Katherine Stewart, Artistic Director of Desert Rose Theatre as 'Mabel,' and other members of our music faculty and alumni. THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE features Book by W.S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan.
69°S, LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE and More Set for Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, May-June 2013
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2013
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced its May-June 2013 events, including: Phantom Limb Company: 69°S, McCoy Tyner Quartet with Special Guest Joe Lovano, Talk Cinema, Chris Botti, and Love, Loss and What I Wore.
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2013
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced its May-June 2013 events, including: Phantom Limb Company: 69°S, McCoy Tyner Quartet with Special Guest Joe Lovano, Talk Cinema, Chris Botti, and Love, Loss and What I Wore.
WORD BECOMES FLESH to Play Mesa Arts Center, 3/8-9
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2013
The Mesa Arts Center presents Word Becomes Flesh, a show about the thoughts and fears of African American men as they each await the birth of their first child using spoken word, dance and live music. The show runs Friday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 9 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Both shows will be in the Nesbitt Elliott Playhouse.
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2013
The Mesa Arts Center presents Word Becomes Flesh, a show about the thoughts and fears of African American men as they each await the birth of their first child using spoken word, dance and live music. The show runs Friday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 9 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Both shows will be in the Nesbitt Elliott Playhouse.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Comes to Mesa, 3/8
by Kelsey Denette - February 26, 2013
With The National Endowment for the arts; the Mesa Arts Center is proud to present Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on Friday, March 8 at 8 p.m. in the Ikeda Theater; sponsored by The Boeing Company. Mesa Arts Center continues to build its partnership with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which comprises of 15 of the finest soloists and ensemble players today. Tickets are available through the Mesa Arts Center Box Office at MesaArtsCenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.
by Kelsey Denette - February 26, 2013
With The National Endowment for the arts; the Mesa Arts Center is proud to present Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on Friday, March 8 at 8 p.m. in the Ikeda Theater; sponsored by The Boeing Company. Mesa Arts Center continues to build its partnership with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which comprises of 15 of the finest soloists and ensemble players today. Tickets are available through the Mesa Arts Center Box Office at MesaArtsCenter.com or by calling 480-644-6500.
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