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Posted: Monday, March 4, 2013 3:00 pm

Franz Kafka and Neil Simon plays on stages this month By Herb Stratford Inside Tucson Business

Posted on Mar 4, 2013

by Herb Stratford

Stages are busy this week at the Rogue Theatre and the Temple of Music and Art.

The Rogue Theatre, 300 E. University Blvd. at the Historic Y, is presenting two striking works about what it means to be human with Franz Kafka’s “Monkey” and “Metamorphosis.” Performances of the plays, which also feature a 15-minute pre-show musical interlude and post-performance discussion, are at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays (along with a special on March 16) through March 17. General admission tickets are $30 each, $20 for Thursday performances. Buy them through the Rogue Theatre’s website www.theroguetheatre.org.

At the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave., Arizona Theatre Company is presenting the classic Neil Simon comedy “The Sunshine Boys” about the unlikely reunion of a pair of vaudeville performers enticed to reunite despite their dislike for each other. The show opens with preview performances at 8 p.m. Saturday (March 2), 7 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday before opening night at 7:30 p.m. March 8. Performances will then continue nightly, except Mondays and March 17-19, through March 23 with matinees scheduled for March 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21 and 23. Individual show tickets are priced from $60 to $80, buy them through the ATC’s website www.arizonatheatre.org.

Art

Depicting a wide range of nocturnal activities by normally camera-shy desert dwellers, an exhibit of photographs by Kate Breakey titled “Surveillance” captures the desert world in a way most of us haven’t seen. The show is in the Temple Gallery at the Temple of Music and Art, which is managed by Etherton Gallery and will be up through April 2.

Music

One of classical music’s hardest working and most respected groups, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields will perform at at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (March 5) in Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd., as part of UApresents’ season. The program features cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan performing works by Benjamin Britten, Joseph Haydn and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Film

One of my favorite documentaries from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival finally makes an appearance in Tucson this weekend at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway. “West of Memphis,” the true story of a trio of young men who were wrongly tried and imprisoned for murder, is chronicled in the film. Largely through grassroots efforts, the case came to the attention of celebrities including director Peter Jackson (“The Hobbit”) and Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder, who bankrolled new investigations that exonerated the trio allowing for their release just as the film was being finalized. The case was the subject of a series of documentaries on HBO, but this film is excellent and tells the complete story.

Contact Herb Stratford at herb@ArtsandCultureGuy.com. Stratford teaches Arts Management at the University of Arizona. His column appears weekly in Inside Tucson Business.

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