Tucson Events & News

by China Young, Taming of the Review on February 20, 2020 at 8:00 am

A finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe is currently one of the hottest plays making the circuit right now. With a story that is modern and fiercely female, it is no surprise that Arizona Repertory Theatre […]

by Leigh Moyer on February 13, 2020 at 8:00 am

With the vast majority of plays this spring written after 1980 and many within the last 20 years, the theme is very clearly modern. While it can be a risk to produce newer works, there is also so much to gain. Modern pieces are, well, modern. […]

by Emily Dieckman on February 13, 2020 at 8:00 am

Baroque, Bach and Beyond Baroque, Bach and Beyond The spring is jam-packed with classical performances celebrating some of history's best music.…

by Margaret Regan on February 13, 2020 at 8:00 am

The students of UA Dance have a busy schedule this spring. Three concerts are in the works, all of them to be performed at Stevie Eller Dance Theatre on the UA campus. For details and tickets see dance.arizona.edu. The […]

by Margaret Regan on February 13, 2020 at 8:00 am

Artist Papay Solomon was still in his mother’s womb when she fled her native Liberia. Artist Papay Solomon was still in his mother's womb when she fled her native Liberia. The year was 1993 and a war was raging; […]

by Tucson Weekly Staff on February 13, 2020 at 8:00 am

Here in Southern Arizona, we are blessed with an abundance of art, as our Spring Arts Preview reveals. Margaret Regan fills us in on what we’ll find in museums and galleries, as well as previewing what local dance troupes will be bringing to […]

by Margaret Regan on February 6, 2020 at 8:00 am

With the winter art season in full swing in Tucson, arts lovers have plenty of events and exhibitions. With the winter art season in full swing in Tucson, arts lovers have plenty of events and exhibitions. The scene this […]

by Betsy Labiner, Taming of the Review on February 6, 2020 at 8:00 am

The Norwegians, by C. Denby Swanson, is more like a Tucson winter than the Minnesota winter in which it’s set; it’s brisk without being cold, bright but not quite sunny, with moments of warmth chased by a sudden chill. […]

by Margaret Regan on January 30, 2020 at 8:00 am

Midway through the eighth annual Tucson Desert Song Festival—devoted this year entirely to the American voice—Ballet Tucson is stepping up to perform three dances with American roots. Midway through the […]

by Annie Sadovsky Koepf, Taming of the Review on January 30, 2020 at 8:00 am

Arizona Theatre Company’s production of Master Harold… and the Boys, Athol Fugard’s semi-autobiographical play set in 1950’s South Africa, begs the audience to question how we deal with difficult times. […]

by Margaret Regan on January 23, 2020 at 8:00 am

Back in 1982, when Athol Fugard’s play “Master Harold” … and the Boys first hit Broadway, a New York Times critic got it right. This Friday night, Arizona Theatre Company opens its own production, at a time when the U.S. […]

by Emily Lyons, Taming of the Review on January 23, 2020 at 8:00 am

SAPAC’s Hot Mikado is a well-executed (pun intended) take on an old favorite Southern Arizona Performing Arts Company's production of Hot Mikado, now playing at the Scoundrel & Scamp theater, lives up to the […]

by Margaret Regan on January 16, 2020 at 8:00 am

Davis Dominguez, a long-running gallery of contemporary art and a respected venue that shows many local artists, will close its doors at the end of June. Davis Dominguez, a long-running gallery of contemporary art and a […]

by Margaret Regan on January 9, 2020 at 8:00 am

When Selena Littler was 9 years old, she was let loose in the high desert north of the Catalinas. It was 1968, the year of rebellion, and a bunch of Tucson artists, her father, Charles Littler, included, had decamped from the city to the desert. […]

by Vianney Cardenas on January 2, 2020 at 8:00 am

Rodriguez, also known as Dr. Cintli, is a professor at the University of Arizona’s Mexican American Studies department. He is an award-winning journalist, columnist and author. In 2014, he released Our Sacred Maiz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity […]