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Tempe Center for the Arts

700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
Tempe, AZ 85281

Upcoming Shows

Elemental (PCC Fall Concert Series)

Sep 26

A concert that explores the essential forces that shape our world. Through music inspired by earth, air, fire, water, and light, Phoenix Children's Chorus celebrates the foundations of voice, energy, and ensemble that bring singers together at the start of a new year.

Mahler, the Unrequited Narcissist

Oct 10

MusicaNova performs Gustav Mahler's original Symphonic Poem, a version only recently reconstructed, before it was revised into his Symphony No. 1, known as the Titan. Audiences familiar with Mahler's First will hear something both familiar and new: lighter, more transparent, and...

Proof

Oct 24 – Nov 8, 2026

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...

Little Shop of Horrors

Jan 9 – Jan 24, 2027

Little Shop of Horrors features music by Alan Menken and lyrics and book by Howard Ashman, based on the film by Roger Corman with screenplay by Charles Griffith. This musical blends horror, comedy, and a pop-infused score into a sci-fi love story about meek florist Seymour, who...

Beethoven: Walking Toward Light

Feb 12, 2027

The program features Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, Bohdana Frolyak's Wandering Lights, Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Suite for String Orchestra, and Vincent d'Indy's Triple Concerto, unified by a theme of finding optimism in difficult times. KBAQ announcer and pianist Greg Kostraba...

The Play That Goes Wrong

Feb 27 – Mar 14, 2027

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...

In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play

Apr 10 – Apr 18, 2027

Sarah Ruhl's Pulitzer Finalist comedy set in the 1880s features a proper gentleman scientist who has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating hysteria in women, and sometimes men. The invention inspires his wife to examine the nature of their marriage and the...

August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean

Apr 10 – Apr 25, 2027

Written by August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean is the first chronological play in his ten-play American Century Cycle. Set in 1904 Pittsburgh, the play follows a young man seeking a fresh start who becomes entangled in a local dispute and is taken by 285-year-old spiritual matriarch...

Killing Kit: A Shakespeare Murder Mystery

May 22 – Jun 6, 2027

A world premiere written by John Stephens, a New York Times best-selling author and writer/producer of television series including Gotham, Gossip Girl, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., and Pennyworth. The play imagines Shakespeare confronting the assassination of poet, playwright, and...

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Review: THE EXONERATED at Black Theatre Troupe

Review: THE EXONERATED at Black Theatre Troupe

by Herbert Paine · September 14, 2026

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.…

Review: MURDER FOR TWO at Phoenix Theatre Company

Review: MURDER FOR TWO at Phoenix Theatre Company

by Cheyenne Lewis · August 30, 2026

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.…

Review: THE PROM at Arizona Broadway Theatre

Review: THE PROM at Arizona Broadway Theatre

by Herbert Paine · August 24, 2026

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…

Review: GRUMPY OLD MEN: THE MUSICAL at Arizona Broadway Theatre

Review: GRUMPY OLD MEN: THE MUSICAL at Arizona Broadway Theatre

by Herbert Paine · August 3, 2026

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.…

Review: MEGALODON at Ronin Theatre Collaborative

Review: MEGALODON at Ronin Theatre Collaborative

by Cheyenne Lewis · August 1, 2026

MEGALODON is an exploration of the human mind. Ronin Theatre Collaborative’s production of Nicholas Walker Herbert’s new play breaks narrative norms.…

Past Shows

29 total · showing 11–20

2025 Breaking Ground Contemporary Dance Festival

Jan 24 – Jan 25, 2025

The 2025 Breaking Ground Contemporary Dance Festival showcases innovative works by 15 choreographers and filmmakers, performed by over 50 dancers from across the country. Held at the Tempe Center for the Arts on January 24-25, this festival emphasizes the intersection of...

Sweat

Sweat

Nov 22 – Dec 7, 2024

Explosive Pulitzer Prize winner that examines the schisms currently dividing modern America, showing how abruptly communities can fracture along fault lines of race and class.

ITHAMAR HAS NOTHING TO SAY

FeaturedITHAMAR HAS NOTHING TO SAY

May 26 – May 28, 2023

ITHAMAR HAS NOTHING TO SAY written and performed by Ithamar Enriquez directed by Frank Caeti STRICTLY LIMITED ENGAGEMENT Tempe Center for the Arts Studio Theatre May 26 - 28, 2023 ASU alum Ithamar Enriquez returns to his old stomping grounds for this very special engagement...

A Feminine Ending

A Feminine Ending

Jan 14 – Jan 22, 2022

From Sarah Treem (TVs The Affair, House of Cards, In Treatment), A Feminine Ending is a gentle, bittersweet comedy about a girl who knows what she wants, but not quite how to get it. Having recently graduated from a major conservatory, and with a rocker boyfriend on the brink of...

just be

just be

Jan 16 – Jan 22, 2022

What does it mean to truly find yourself? What would it look like to let yourself just be? These are the central questions that Maybe Stewart and their ensemble of actors will seek to answer with you through an evening of poetry, movement, theatre, and conversation. In this...

The Bechdel Test Fest 2.0

The Bechdel Test Fest 2.0

Apr 26 – Apr 28, 2019

Festival of new work and dialogue centered around the Bechdel Test: 2 women who speak to each other about something other than a man. Includes short films, play readings, a panel discussion, an audition workshop and an awards presentation. Presented by The Bridge Initiative...

Menopause The Musical

Menopause The Musical

Mar 13 – Mar 16, 2019

Join the 11+ million people who flocked to this side-splitting spectacle since it's smashing 2001 debut. The cast of four fabulous women shop for laundry at a Bloomingdales sale, sing 25 songs about chocolate cravings, hot flashes, memory loss, and more! The lyrics parody...

H.T. CHEN & DANCERS’  DANCE-THEATER EVENT “SOUTH OF GOLD MOUNTAIN”

H.T. CHEN & DANCERS’ DANCE-THEATER EVENT “SOUTH OF GOLD MOUNTAIN”

Mar 27 – Mar 28, 2015

DESERT DANCE THEATRE presents H.T. CHEN & DANCERS’ dance-theater event, SOUTH OF GOLD MOUNTAIN which draws from rich oral histories and documented experiences of the first Chinese settlers lured to America by the promise of gold and a better life in the southern states before...

Schoolhouse Rock Live!

Apr 20 – May 25, 2014

A pop culture phenomenon returns to the musical stage! Academic subjects will never seem boring again when presented through megahits like “Conjunction Junction,” “Just a Bill,” “Interplanet Janet” or “Three is a Magic Number.” Schoolhouse Rock explodes onto the Childsplay stage...

Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle

Mar 22 – Mar 30, 2014

When a stray dog appears on the doorstop, it’s love at first sight for 6-year-old Cory, and the last straw for Grandma Autumn. Life hasn’t been easy lately for either of these two, facing absent parents and lost homes. But in a delightfully surprising story filled with humor and...

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