Tag: Phoenix Theatre

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Six storytellers gathered at Phoenix Theatre on Wednesday evening for the monthly Arizona Storytellers event. The performance was sponsored by Arizona news outlets and featured stories of family and community.

As this year’s season begins, the variety of theaters and troupes in downtown Phoenix have some fantastic new shows starting up over the next three months. For the downtown theater-lover (or dance-lover, or general performance-lover), we’ve laid out some shows as they’re scheduled for September, October, November and early December.

"Avenue Q" is an R-rated, Tony Award-winning musical comedy that tells the story of a recent college graduate, and Phoenix Theatre's talented cast performed it excellently.

Hosts Miguel Otarola and Jayson Chesler delivered Devil's Pass's final episode for the semester. The show will return in August. Topics included the presentation of TRUPHX and changes in leadership in the arts community in the wake of James Ballinger's decision to step down as director of the Phoenix Art Museum.

Community initiatives led by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at ASU have opened up engaging higher education options to senior citizens, and enrollment in courses offered by OLLI is expected to increase.

Actors Theatre has decided to leave the Herberger Theater Center, where it has been the anchor tenant for more than 20 years.

NoName Theatre, a new underground theatre group that combines professionalism and amateurism, will perform its first play near Roosevelt Street and Fourth Avenue in mid-November.

Festivals and theater take center stage this weekend in downtown Phoenix.

Dim lighting, coffins in plain sight, spooky background music: it didn’t take long for audience members of Lisa Starry’s A Vampire Tale to sense a dark twist looming in their future. Although most of the show was choreographed, this year’s rendition of A Vampire Tale left room for audience participation.