HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF
2/13 - 2/28/2026
Liliana Padilla's Award-Winning Play HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF Explodes Onto Stray Cat Stage with Raw Power and Fierce Urgency The Yale Drama Series Prize-winning drama ...
Review: REYKJAVIC at Stray Cat Theatre
by Herbert Paine - December 08, 2025
REYKJAVIK is less a play to be solved rather than a mood to be inhabited. That may frustrate some, but for others, it’s the kind of theater that embraces mystery, that resists tidy endings, that thrives in the uncanny spaces between genres....
Review: THE COMEUPPANCE at Stray Cat Theatre
by Herbert Paine - September 29, 2025
With a running time of two hours plus Jacobs-Jenkins's uneven script may waver at times, yet to the company’s credit, and to director Seth Tucker, this Stray Cat Theatre production remains impossible to ignore....
GRACE AND GLORIE to Open Black Theatre Troupe Season in September
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 11, 2025
Black Theatre Troupe will open its 2025–2026 season with GRACE & GLORIE a warm and incisive two-character play by Tom Ziegler, directed by Chanel Bragg. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets....
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Stray Cat Theatre
by Herbert Paine - May 05, 2025
Despite some flaws, this LITTLE SHOP, directed by Ron May, is a wild, weird, dark ride....
Review: FETAL at Stray Cat Theatre
by Herbert Paine - February 24, 2025
Stray Cat Theatre’s production of FETAL is a necessary, gripping, and unforgettable theatrical experience—one that demands not only contemplation but also collective action and solidarity regarding reproductive rights....
Review: SWEAT at Stray Cat Theatre
by Herbert Paine - November 26, 2024
Stray Cat Theatre's production of SWEAT, directed by Chanel Bragg, achieves a remarkable balance between the intimacy and intensity of working class folks caught in the whirlwind of economic displacement. To this end, Bragg's ensemble delivers powerhouse performances....
Review: THE MINUTES at Stray Cat Theatre
by Herbert Paine - October 01, 2024
As presented by Stray Cat Theatre as its 23rd season opener, THE MINUTES, a blistering satire of small-town city council meetings, begins as one thing and concludes as something completely different. And no matter what clues or giveaways you think you might have picked up on throughout the play, you...
Past Shows
REYKJAVÍK by Steve Yockey
12/5 - 12/20/2025
Stray Cat invites you to spend the holidays where cold takes on an entirely new definition as they proudly continue season 24 with our sixth ...
THE COMEUPPANCE
9/26 - 10/11/2025
Stray Cat proudly opens season 24 with the latest play from Pulitzer and Tony Award Winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. We invite you to join the ...
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
5/2 - 5/17/2025
Stray Cat proudly concludes season 23 with a distinctly Stray Cat approach to a beloved favorite - the camp-tastic sci-fi classic musical LITTLE SHOP OF ...
FETAL
2/14 - 3/1/2025
Stray Cat proudly continues season 23 with Trista Baldwin’s FETAL - a ripped-from-the-headlines new play that enjoyed a sold-out and extended run in Minnesota that ...
THE MINUTES
9/27 - 10/12/2024
Stray Cat proudly opens season 23 with a production of Tracy Letts’ explosive Tony-nominated dark Broadway comedy taking a look behind the scenes of our ...
SLEEPING GIANT by Steve Yockey
5/3 - 5/18/2024
SLEEPING GIANT by Steve Yockey directed by Ron May Tempe Center for the Arts Studio Theatre May 3 - 18, 2024 The newest play from ...
UNTIL THE FLOOD
2/16 - 3/2/2024
UNTIL THE FLOOD by Dael Orlandersmith directed by Elena Conti Tempe Center for the Arts Studio Theatre February 16 – March 2, 2024 After Ferguson, ...
POTUS, OR BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE by Selina Fillinger directed by Katie McFadzen Tempe Center for the Arts ...
GLORIA by Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins
9/29 - 10/14/2023
A group of twenty-something editorial assistants are pursuing it all at one of New York’s most esteemed cultural magazines. When a seemingly normal day at ...
FAIRVIEW
4/28 - 5/6/2023
Stray Cat continues Season 21’s celebration of BIPOC voices with the 2019 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama - FAIRVIEW by Jackie Sibblies Drury. ...
ASSASSINS
5/6 - 5/21/2022
The controversial Tony Award-winning theatrical triumph, ASSASSINS combines Sondheim's signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation's ...
Chicks with Dicks
4/19 - 5/11/2013
It’s time. The cult hit that was the first show head kitty Ron May was ever involved with out here (playing Joe aka DogBoy)…is coming ...
Sons of the Prophet
2/15 - 3/2/2013
Their tragedy. Your comedy. A 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and hailed as one of the Top 10 Plays of 2011 from The New York Times, ...
Wolves
11/30 - 12/16/2012
Yep…thanks in part to support from the National New Play Network, you can say you saw it here first. From the writer of the crazy-trippy-cool ...
Videos
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TINA - The Tina Turner Musical (Touring)
Mesa Arts Center (1/30 - 2/1) | |
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Ain’t Misbehavin'
Arizona Theatre Company (1/25 - 2/14) | ||
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HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF
Stray Cat Theatre (2/13 - 2/28) | |
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Much Ado About Dinosaurs
Beaver Street Theatre (10/16 - 10/25) | |
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Love Is in the Air
North Valley Chorale (2/28 - 3/1) | |
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BLITHE SPIRIT
Don Bluth Front Row Theatre (1/22 - 2/28)
PHOTOS
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Newsies Jr.
Musical Theatre of Anthem (2/27 - 3/8) | |
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Acclaimed EAGLES TRIBUTE TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT lands at THE MESA ARTS CENTER on Valentine's Feb 14th
Mesa Arts Center (2/14 - 2/14) | |
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Grupo Arga Detectives Privados
Grupo Arga Detectives Privados (5/18 - 10/18) | |
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Little Women: The Broadway Musical
ASU Kerr (2/8 - 2/9) | |
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