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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....

Submissions For ATC's National Latine Playwrights Award Are Open Now


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 03, 2025

Arizona Theatre Company has launched a call for submissions for the 2026 National Latine PlaywrightsAward. Now in the 29th year of the award, submissions will be accepted through January late January....

Phoenix Children’s Chorus To Present COMFORT AND JOY And SEASON’S GREETINGS This December


by A.A. Cristi - November 06, 2025

The Phoenix Children’s Chorus will present two festive holiday programs, Comfort and Joy and Season’s Greetings, showcasing more than 300 young voices from across the Valley....

Review: DECEIVED at Arizona Theatre Company


by Herbert Paine - October 27, 2025

Patrick Hamilton’s Gas Light lit its first flame in 1938, a moody little stage thriller set in the fog-drenched backstreets of 1880s London. It was a venom-laced marital drama where domesticity was turned into a psychological trap. ...

Review: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE at Black Theatre Troupe


by Herbert Paine - October 23, 2025

Change can be the hardest and perhaps even the most horrifying part of life, but it can also be the most rewarding. The Black Theatre Troupe’s performance of the musical CAROLINE, OR CHANGE highlights the highs and lows of change with distinction....

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....

Arizona Theatre Company to Bring DECEIVED Based On Patrick Hamilton's Play GASLIGHT To Stage


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 19, 2025

Arizona Theatre Company will ramp up preparations for its 58th season opener Deceived by welcoming award winning artists from Broadway and Arizona. Learn more!...

CAROLINE, OR CHANGE Comes to Tempe Center for the Arts


by A.A. Cristi - September 15, 2025

Black Theatre Troupe will present Caroline, or Change at Tempe Center for the Arts from October 17–November 2, 2025. With book and lyrics by Tony Kushner and music by Jeanine Tesori, the acclaimed musical explores race, class, and identity through a stirring blend of gospel, Motown, and Jewish melod...

Phoenix Art Museum Reveals 2025 Arizona Artist Awards Winners


by A.A. Cristi - September 09, 2025

Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Arizona Artist Awards, honoring four Arizona-based artists with new funding and exhibition opportunities. ...

CAROLINE, OR CHANGE and More Set for Black Theatre Troupe 2025-2026 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 23, 2025

Black Theatre Troupe has unveiled its 2025–2026 season, featuring poignant dramas, vibrant musicals, and BTT’s legendary holiday tradition and more. See the full lineup of shows here!...

Past Shows

Coven
Coven
11/7 - 11/8/2025


When the earth witch, Cybil, falls for the air warlock, Aeros, Lilith, the fire witch, realizes there is only one end to their love: death. ...

The 2025 National Latine Playwrights Award & Festival


Arizona Theatre Company began presenting the National Latine Playwrights Award 30 years ago to create a greater awareness of historically excluded Latine writers’ stories. Under ...

26th Annual Arizona Dance Festival 2025


The Arizona Dance Festival will feature over 40 different dance artists and companies, showcasing an eclectic variety of dance performances from around Arizona and beyond.

Rhinestone Rodeo
Rhinestone Rodeo
6/6 - 6/7/2025


The Phoenix Gay Men’s Chorus proudly presents Rhinestone Rodeo —a glitter-drenched, high-energy country music spectacular celebrating queer joy, resilience, and community. Hosted by the fabulous ...

Lessons From A Lady: Syndee Winters Sings Lena Horne In Concert


"Lessons From A Lady: Syndee Winters Sings Lena Horne In Concert" is a celebration of Lena Horne’s life and music, honoring traditional renditions of her ...

Crooked Shadows
Crooked Shadows
2/1 - 2/5/2025


Grandma Rosa: Woman. Mother. Warrior. Curator of Family Herstory. Crooked Shadows visits heartfelt stories from childhood hijinks in a vibrant Italian American home to haunting ...


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 ...

Sweat
Sweat
11/22 - 12/7/2024


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
ITHAMAR HAS NOTHING TO SAY
5/26 - 5/28/2023


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 ...

A Feminine Ending
A Feminine Ending
1/14 - 1/22/2022


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 ...

just be
just be
1/16 - 1/22/2022


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 ...

The Bechdel Test Fest 2.0
The Bechdel Test Fest 2.0
4/26 - 4/28/2019


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 ...

The Bechdel Test Fest 2.0
The Bechdel Test Fest 2.0
4/26 - 4/28/2019


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 ...

Menopause The Musical
Menopause The Musical
3/13 - 3/16/2019


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 ...

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


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 ...

Schoolhouse Rock Live!
4/20 - 5/25/2014


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 ...


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 ...

The Cat in the Hat
1/26 - 3/16/2014


From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears at their door, Sally and her brother know that the Cat in the Hat is the most ...

The Velveteen Rabbit
11/17 - 11/22/2013


Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Childsplay’s Holiday Classic! For years, Childsplay brought holiday magic to the Valley with its production of Margery Williams’s classic picture ...


With his handmade silk suits, wide array of hats and tiny gold pocket watch, Edward Tulane was the most exceptional toy in Abilene’s room. He ...

Robin Hood
9/8 - 10/6/2013


Grab your bow and arrow and head to Sherwood Forest to join Robin Hood, Maid Marion and their band of merry men on an unforgettable, ...

A Wrinkle in Time
4/21 - 5/26/2013


On a dark and stormy night, a mysterious stranger appears at Meg Murray’s house. Suddenly Meg, her precocious younger brother Charles Wallace and their friend ...

Recipe for Disaster!
4/6 - 4/14/2013


Join us in the kitchen as two “master” chefs’ constant arguing makes a mess of an important exam for one struggling young apprentice. Culinary chaos ...

Boats
3/30 - 3/31/2013


Direct from Tasmania! (Get your maps!) Set sail with Jof and Nic, two life-long friends cast adrift on the open ocean. With their inventive puppetry, ...


The ASU Guitar Ensemble performs works from a variety of eras and genres. This recital features guitar duos, trios, quartets and ensembles performing original works ...

Mujeres 5
3/2


Yumi La Rosa and Ava Fleming join forces to bring an eclectic cultural experience. Desert Dance Theatre and Step’s Junk Funk performs as guests in ...

Videos


REYKJAVÍK by Steve Yockey in Phoenix REYKJAVÍK by Steve Yockey
Stray Cat Theatre (12/5 - 12/20) Tracker
The Sleeping Beauty: International Ballet Stars in Tucson, AZ! in Phoenix The Sleeping Beauty: International Ballet Stars in Tucson, AZ!
Fox Tucson Theatre (5/10 - 5/10)
Regretfully, So the Birds Are in Phoenix Regretfully, So the Birds Are
The Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre (1/18 - 1/18)
Ken Ludwig's TREASURE ISLAND in Phoenix Ken Ludwig's TREASURE ISLAND
Don Bluth Front Row Theatre (3/19 - 4/25)
A Christmas Carol in Phoenix A Christmas Carol
The Phoenix Theatre Company (11/26 - 12/28)
The Wizard of Oz in Phoenix The Wizard of Oz
Hale Centre Theatre Arizona (5/15 - 6/27)
Always...Patsy Cline in Phoenix Always...Patsy Cline
Hale Centre Theatre Arizona (1/20 - 4/7)
A Year With Frog and Toad in Phoenix A Year With Frog and Toad
Live Theatre Workshop (12/4 - 12/21)
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