Next to Normal at Mesa Arts Center, Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse

Next to Normal is an unrelentingly intense, brutally honest – and often, darkly funny – story about a bipolar woman and the family that grapples with her illness, all set to a hard driving rock and roll score that explodes with raw, searing emotion. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rolling Stone called it “the best new musical of the season – by a mile.” Next to Normal explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness.