MESA ARTS CENTER – IKEDA THEATRE

by Zach Wetzel - April 05, 2026

ANITA is a joyful celebration of humanity....

by Herbert Paine - April 04, 2026

A small, sincere musical that reaches for neither spectacle nor modernity....

by Herbert Paine - March 31, 2026

By the mid-1920s the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo) were already well known on the vaudeville circuit. Broadway gave their mayhem a larger canvas. Producer Sam Harris commissioned a musical comedy built around them, pairing their improvisational chaos with the polish of Berlin’s ...

by Herbert Paine - March 30, 2026

A tour de force, a musical perfectly crafted and performed, and directed by Dzifa Kwawu with remarkable precision. A must-see!...

by Zach Wetzel - March 28, 2026

INSIDE OUT is a truly moving piece of theatre....

by Herbert Paine - March 23, 2026

With four actors on a generally bare deck, and a whale that exists in our imagination, the old story of compulsion and the sea finds a fresh, unexpectedly playful life....

by Zach Wetzel - March 22, 2026

This production is filled with sparkling wit and fantastic performances!...

by Zach Wetzel - March 21, 2026

THE ROOMMATE is a clever and well-acted production....

by Herbert Paine - March 18, 2026

What’s more satisfying than watching six wronged women reclaim their power? Watching them do it in rhinestone corsets, backed by a thunderous girl band and enough LED lighting to short-circuit Times Square. SIX, the British import that’s barreled from university revue to Broadway headliner like ...

by Herbert Paine - March 17, 2026

Stephen Casey, the director and choreographer of Arizona Broadway Theatre’s production of PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL, understands something essential about adapting a modern fairy tale, especially one rooted in a Rodeo Drive fantasy, for the stage: unless the performers anchor the story in authenti...