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THE CAKE by Bekah Brunstetter is now playing through September 21 at Invisible Theatre.

Nominations are now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Phoenix Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.

LES MISERABLES is likely one of the finest touring productions to grace Broadway in Tucson in recent memory.

“A Pivotal Point in Time: Art in Scottsdale in the 1970s” will coincide with the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.

Chandler Center for the Arts (CCA) has announced the recipients of its 2025 awards, honoring extraordinary leadership and generosity in support of the arts.

Scottsdale Public Art will present Artists of Cattle Track, an exhibition highlighting the artists who create at the historic Cattle Track Arts Compound.

The emotional terrain is fertile, but in Black Theatre Troupe’s 56th-season opener, GRACE AND GLORIE, the production comes close but not quite far enough to capture the fullness and weight that popularized the work.

Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Arizona Artist Awards, honoring four Arizona-based artists with new funding and exhibition opportunities.

Hale Centre Theatre in Gilbert, Arizona, is presenting ANASTASIA as part of a growing trend of local theaters bringing this once semi-obscure Broadway adaptation to local stages.

This outstanding spooky season parody is now playing! THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has taken over The Gaslight Theatre! Written by Peter VanSlyke and adapted by Katherine Byrnes and Mike Yarema, this parody is perfect for spooky season.

Tartuffe by Molière is now playing at The Rogue Theatre, and it is glorious! This was my first time visiting The Rogue, and I am kicking myself for not venturing into this incredible performance space sooner.

Phoenix's most successful underground theater company is turning 15, and they're celebrating with a season that's equal parts nostalgic, chaotic, and unapologetically inappropriate.

Emerson Theater Collaborative will present the world premiere of Silence is Not Golden by Anita Yellin Simons this month at Verde Valley School's Brady Hall.

The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre has unveiled its Ninth Season for 2025-2026, marking a new chapter of inventive theatre under the leadership of new Co-Artistic and Managing Directors, Annika Maher and Zac Austin.

Theatrikos Theatre Company has announced its 2026 Mainstage Season, a lineup of seven productions that range from laugh-out-loud comedies and jukebox musicals to contemporary dramas and timeless classics.

In the fall of 1975, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors to the public with an inaugural concert by the “King of the Road” himself, Roger Miller.

Arizona Theatre Company has named award-winning sound designer and Assistant Teaching Professor at Arizona Thate University Daniel Perelstein Jaquette as its Resident Artist for the 2025/2026 season.

Scottsdale Arts has launched new guides on the free Bloomberg Connects app, featuring content from the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) and Scottsdale Public Art.

Scottsdale Arts will launch its 2025–26 season with a vibrant lineup of concerts, exhibitions, and events spanning September and October.

TheaterWorks will open The Prince of Egypt on Friday, August 29, the second production of its 2025–26 40th Anniversary Season.

Arizona Broadway Theatre's staging is a mixed bag – lifted at times by sharp comic performances and spirited choreography, yet hampered by a lackluster book, uneven score, and a central transformation that never fully convinces.

Ballet Theatre of Phoenix will launch a new monthly program, Dance Discovery Saturdays, this fall, inviting dancers of all levels to explore diverse styles with world-class instructors.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN with the Musical Theatre Alliance of Arizona is a sharp-shooting triumph.

Henrik Ibsen's groundbreaking 1879 drama A Doll's House returns to the stage at Stage Left Productions in the northwest valley.

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL is a vibrant, music-soaked love letter to a city that lives and breathes rhythm even in the face of heartbreak and hardship.