By Chuck Graham, TucsonStage.com   photo by Tim Fuller From left, Manny the accompanist (Walter "Bobby" McCoy), Maria Callas (Vicki Lewis) and Sophie the student (Rachel Gold) in a tense search for artistic truth. We the audience are sitting in on a master class conducted by famed soprano Maria Callas. Noted playwright Terrence McNally (“Ragtime,” “Love! Valor! Compassion!”), a professed opera buff, drew on similar classes Callas conducted at the Juilliard School in the early 1970s to write his Tony award winning “Master Class,” named the Best Play of 1996. Now the Arizona Theatre Compa ..read more

By Chuck Graham, TucsonStage.com   photo by Britten Leigh The court of King Arthur was a happy place, setting a new standard for civilized behavior, from the vaunted Knights of the Round Table to the ordinary people in the streets.   On October 1, 1960, “Camelot” opened on Broadway, eager to fulfill its destiny as the musical that became emblematic of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Through the ensuing decades of real war and violence, goodness and light have continued to be associated with the spirit of “Camelot.” During that time the show has won four Tony awards and ..read more

By Chuck Graham, TucsonStage.com   photo by The Gawnes The Angels are (from left) Janee Page, Heather Stricker and Erin  Todd. Over at the Gaslight Theatre, before the show even begins, you just know “Harlie's Angels” is set in the 1970s...because everything that isn't yellow or orange is colored hot pink. Keeping up with the noisy colors is all that music of the period, filled with sweeping choruses made for disco dancing, choc-a-bloc with the goofy mannerisms that were so intrinsic to the elaborate mating rituals filling every weekend of the pop culture swirling Seventies, W ..read more

By Chuck Graham, TucsonStage.com   photo by Nicci Radhe From left, Greg (Taylor Rascher), Carly (Taige' Lauren), Stephanie (Samantha Cormier) and Kent (Lucas Gonzales). Setting all of today's sexist and feminist politics aside, Mark Klugheit's Next Stage Theatre Southwest has dug deeper into Neil LaBute's Tony-nominated “Reasons to be Pretty,” a play that considers the importance of being attractive. Back in the 1950s it was popular for young guys to say “She was the cutest girl I could get with the car I had.” Klugheit as director has set his play in “more or less the present,” but t ..read more

By Chuck Graham, TucsonStage.com   photo by Tim Fuller Estraven (Matt Walley) the prime minister of Karhide, confers with Genly Ai (Kevin Aoussou), a travelling envoy from the Ekumen. Have you ever wished you had become a philosopher instead of the more practical career choice you did make? If so, “The Left Hand of Darkness” now at The Rogue Theatre is your kind of play. A great place to have your imagination stretched in all sorts of new directions, appreciating whole new possibilities that you just never thought about before. This fanciful play directed by Matt Bowdren has been adap ..read more

  From: David Zinke <dzinkmeister@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2024 9:39 AM Subject: Reminder/Invitations to attend OPPweekly Zoom meeting 4-22-24   Old Pueblo Playwrights cordially invite you to attend their weekly Zoom meeting on Monday, April 22, 2024 beginning at 7 pm.     There will be no in-person aspect of this meeting.  Zoom link below the schedule of COMMING ATTRACTIONS:   APRIL 22  ZOOM    Three shorts by Mel Hector "Rose to the Occasion", second reading to remind us of why we do the play fests.  Wit ..read more

Thriller of The Year   TUE, APR 23 - SUN, MAY 05     Gillian Howard, a successful crime novelist returns home late after having received the award for ” Thriller of The Year”, she finds that a copy of her latest award-winning book , “The Lady is Dead” has been delivered with no note and no indication of who it is from. As the evening unfolds a series of unfortunate accidents occur, she soon finds out why: someone is trying to kill her using methods from her own book. As a number of visitors to her home fall under suspicion, Gillian faces a race against time to discover the ide ..read more

  Hairspray April 23 - April 28   You Can’t Stop the Beat! HAIRSPRAY, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy phenomenon is back on tour! Join 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960s Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams (and even bigger hair) change the world?   Featuring the beloved score of hit songs including “Welcome to the ‘60s,” “Good Morning Baltimore” and “You Can’t Stop the Beat,” HAIRSPRAY is “fresh, winning, and deliriously tuneful!” (The New York Times).   This all-new tour ..read more

    Tickets and info: https://www.thegaslighttheatre.com/now-playing     ------------------------------------- TucsonStage home: www.TucsonStage.com Recent announcements: http://tucsonstage.blogspot.com/     ..read more

  From: Unscrewed Theater <unscrewedtheater@mail.mailchimpapp.com> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 8:01 PM Subject: Let's Celebrate This Weekend - Shakespeare Style!         Art Thou Ready To Laugh?       To laugh or not to laugh, that is the question: Friday, April 19th @ 7:30 PM (PST): Family-Friendly Improv Funny with "Not Burnt Out Just Unscrewed." Tickets $5.00/kids & $10.00/adults. Live Stream tickets $10.00 per household.  Saturday, April 20th @ 6:00 PM (PST): Unscrewed Family Hour featuring ..read more