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Written by David Auburn, Proof is a Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play about Catherine, the daughter of a late prize-winning mathematician, who allows her father's protege access to his archives, leading to the discovery of an impossible math proof. What follows is a...
What happens when a simple school meeting turns into a battle over everything we believe? Stray Cat Theatre presents Eureka Day, Jonathan Spector’s sharply funny and provocative Tony-winning comedy about community, conviction, and what happens when good intentions collide. Set...
Open the door to Ophelia's room! Set entirely within Ophelia’s chamber, A Room in the Castle asks a pressing question: how does a woman endure the treacherous court of Denmark? Here, Ophelia, her loyal handmaid, and Queen Gertrude face the fallout of a volatile prince’s behavior...
Set entirely within Ophelia’s chamber, A Room in the Castle asks a pressing question: how does a woman endure the treacherous court of Denmark? Here, Ophelia, her loyal handmaid, and Queen Gertrude face the fallout of a volatile prince’s behavior and begin to grasp just how...
LOVE LETTERS Emerson Theater Collaborative Emerson Theater Collaborative is proud to present Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama, Love Letters, a two-hander about two lifelong friends and the letters they exchange, told with warmth, grace and heart. Produced and Directed by...
A beauty pageant becomes an unlikely crossroads of ambition, ideology, and identity. Amid the glitter and spectacle, Katherine isn’t just competing for a crown, she's rewriting history. Smart, driven, and unapologetically bold, she dreams of reshaping American politics as...
A beauty pageant becomes an unlikely crossroads of ambition, ideology, and identity. Amid the glitter and spectacle, Katherine isn’t just competing for a crown, she's rewriting history. Smart, driven, and unapologetically bold, she dreams of reshaping American politics as...
It’s 2004, and 14-year-old Shelby Hinkley has locked Tobey Maguire in her basement, at the height of his career, to force him into marrying her. Samantha Hurley’s laugh-out-loud dark comedy, steeped in Y2K nostalgia, explodes our para-social relationships and the obsessions that...
One of the most acclaimed plays in the American theatrical canon, this exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is a gripping and timely parable of contemporary society, as well as a studied historical tale. The story focuses upon a young farmer, his...
SOUTHWEST SHAKESPEARE LAUNCHES 2026-27 SEASON WITH SHAKESPEARE’S RICHARD III, THE ORIGINAL POLITICAL THRILLER AND RICHARD III October 10-24, 2026, at Mesa Arts Center, Southwest Shakespeare Company (SSC) will share a story of extreme ambition, calculated betrayal and murder as a...
Journey to the Jurassic with Shakespeare & company in this colorful, interactive, original play for audiences of all ages and geological eras! Created by Matthew Windham & A.J. Maniglia, the inventive minds behind Simply Silly Shakespeare and Shakespeare on Pluto , this...
SOUTHWEST SHAKESPEARE LAUNCHES 2026-27 SEASON WITH WHISPERS IN THE DARK: STORIES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE, A HALLOWEEN TREAT WHISPERS IN THE DARK Just in time for Halloween, Southwest Shakespeare presents the new theatrical experience, Whispers in the Dark , a new play by Elizabeth...
Written by David Auburn, Proof is a Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play about Catherine, the daughter of a late prize-winning mathematician, who allows her father's protege access to his archives, leading to the discovery of an impossible math proof. What follows is a...
Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. In this Pulitzer Prize-nominated play about ambition and growing up, these young...
Beethoven's piano piece, "Fur Elise" ("For Elise") is played by intermediate piano students around the world. Only, who was Elise? Was she a love interest of Beethoven's? Or perhaps a student? Maybe...both? No one knows for certain. Our play explores the mystery while drawing a...
The play, written by Kenneth LaFave and directed by Herb Paine, explores the mystery behind Beethoven’s famous piano work, “Für Elise” (“For Elise”). Who was “Elise” who inspired one of classical music’s greatest composers to dedicate this piece to her? Scholars have never...
Wolfe Bowart’s The WoBo Show comes back to the S&S for a fourth season! Join us for two very different shows featuring the hilarious Wolfe Bowart and Xochitl Martinez, plus special guests - catch one or see both in our Season 10 series. Wolfe Bowart brings us another enchanting...
When struggling artist Brindsley Miller “borrows” his neighbor’s elegant furniture to impress his fiancée’s father and a wealthy art collector, he thinks he’s staged the perfect evening. Then the power fails. What follows? A parade of colorful, duplicitous guests stumbling...
A powerful, non-linear journey through the beauty of unexpected love and the resilience required when that love is met with violence. It’s a haunting yet hopeful look at how one moment in New York City can change two lives forever.
A DBFRT annual tradition! Based on the 1947 film by Frank Capra which is based on the 1943 short story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern. Directed by Cheryl Schaar The beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life on the DBFRT stage. Based on the 1946...
Wolfe Bowart’s The WoBo Show comes back to the S&S for a fourth season! Join us for two very different shows featuring the hilarious Wolfe Bowart and Xochitl Martinez, plus special guests - catch one or see both in our Season 10 series. Wolfe Bowart brings us another enchanting...
HYPROV combines hypnosis and improv comedy for a one-of-a-kind live experience. Twenty volunteers from the audience are hypnotized on stage, and the most receptive among them join master improv comedian Colin Mochrie, known from Whose Line Is It Anyway?, to improvise the rest of...
On a dark and stormy night, six eccentric guests—Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard—gather at Boddy Manor for a mysterious dinner party… and their host ends up dead. In Clue, based on the classic board game, the suspects scramble to uncover the killer in this...
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, this Tony- and Olivier Award-winning play follows the opening night of the Cornley Drama Society's production of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where mishaps including wayward props, malfunctioning scenery, and...
A sparkling, satirical comedy, MY MAN GODFREY serves as a hilarious critique of class, wealth, and the resilience of the human spirit!
Edward Tulane is a vain, self-absorbed china rabbit, adored by a little girl named Abilene--and incapable of loving her back. When he is accidentally lost at sea, Edward begins an extraordinary journey beyond his control. Passed from hand to hand over many years, he encounters...
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA remains a terrific night of musical theatre. The score still moves and the touring production currently housed in Tempe’s Gammage Auditorium makes good on every ounce of spectacle its reputation promises.…
OTHER DESERT CITIES at Theatre Artists Studio: A bristling, emotionally powerful family drama, directed by Tom Koelbel and featuring a powerhouse cast.…
Black Theatre Troupe's THE EXONERATED is compelling and provocative. A production of real craft in service of real urgency: beautifully directed, powerfully acted, and unwilling to let its audience leave comfortable.…
HOCUS POCUSED is an excellent new show with chills and laughs!…
Phoenix Theatre Company’s production of MURDER FOR TWO is a vivacious comedy that audiences will love. This two-man musical left the entire audience laughing throughout the whole show. Between the great performances, amusing music, and colorful design, this show is a fun one to see.…
The 2018 Broadway musical THE PROM transforms what sounds like a groan-inducing premise into a sneakily moving musical; four self-absorbed Broadway actors descend on a small Indiana town to save a lesbian teenager and discover that becoming a decent human being requires more than finding the right c…
The songs by Alicia Keys are catchy, the dancing is electric, and the pacing is fast.…
This is a moving and passionate production with a beating heart.…
While the musical fails to rise above its familiar premise, director Clayton Phillips refuses to let the evening sag. He keeps the pacing brisk and draws fully committed performances from a cast that never stops believing in the story, even when the script gives them little to work with.…
MEGALODON is an exploration of the human mind. Ronin Theatre Collaborative’s production of Nicholas Walker Herbert’s new play breaks narrative norms.…
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Proof Temple of Music and Art (9/27-10/17) |
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EUREKA DAY Stray Cat Theatre (10/09-10/17) |
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A Room in the Castle Beaver Street Theatre (9/18-10/03) |
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Mean Girls MCC Performing Arts Center (10/09-11/08) |
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A Christmas Carol Hale Centre Theatre Arizona (11/27-12/24) |
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I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire The Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre (9/24-10/11) |
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The Tempest Arizona Theatre Matters (10/05-12/31) |
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Oklahoma! Hale Centre Theatre Arizona (2/11-3/27) |
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CHARLEY'S AUNT Don Bluth Front Row Theatre (7/22-8/28) |
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WHISPERS IN THE DARK: STORIES BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Southwest Shakespeare Company (10/15-10/25) |
