Tucson Events & News

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 […]

by Tucson Weekly Staff on December 26, 2019 at 8:00 am

With the year drawing to a close, we asked authors Tom Zoellner, Margaret Regan and Brian Smith along with Tucson Weekly exectuive editor Jim Nintzel to round up their favorite local books of the year. With the year […]

by Holly Griffith, Taming of the Review on December 19, 2019 at 8:00 am

Winding Road Theatre showcases ensemble talent and honest storytelling in their latest offering, Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal. Winding Road Theatre showcases ensemble talent and honest storytelling in their latest […]

by Margaret Regan on December 19, 2019 at 8:00 am

There’s still time to wing your way to Etherton Gallery to see Expecting to Fly, a powerhouse exhibition of work by three photographers. There's still time to wing your way to Etherton Gallery to see Expecting to […]

by Margaret Regan on December 12, 2019 at 8:00 am

Each December, thousands of dancers take to stages all over the country to dance The Nutcracker, the beloved Christmas tradition. Set to a splendid score by Tchaikovsky, the 1892 ballet was created in Russia by two choreographers, the French Petipa […]

by Emily Lyons on December 12, 2019 at 8:00 am

Arizona Theatre Company brings an all-new production of Cabaret (written by Joe Masteroff with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb) to Southern Arizona this winter. Set during the waning days of Weimar Berlin and the Nazis’ rise to […]

by Margaret Regan on December 5, 2019 at 8:00 am

Two tragedies are unexpectedly brought together in a gigantic installation by Los Angeles artist Ali Silverstein at MOCA Tucson. Seventy-one years ago, on March 14, 1948, 14 British sailors drowned off the west coast of […]

by Regina Ford, Taming of the Review on December 5, 2019 at 8:00 am

Tilly the Trickster, a family-friendly show, written by Jeremy Dobrish with music and lyrics by Drew Fornarola and based on the children’s book written by actress and comedian of SNL fame, Molly Shannon, is running now at Live Theatre […]

by Emily Dieckman on November 28, 2019 at 8:00 am

The world of Cabaret, Arizona Theatre Company’s next production, is centered at a nightclub called the Kit Kat, where a character called the Emcee oversees a world of decadence, bawdiness and reckless abandon. It's […]

by Margaret Regan on November 28, 2019 at 8:00 am

Right at the front of the Davis Dominguez gallery is an exhilarating sculpture by Tucson’s Barbara Jo. A curving female-esque figure 6 feet tall, “Whirl” is wrapped in a stretch of green copper that defiantly swings outward, just […]

by Margaret Regan on November 21, 2019 at 8:00 am

From the 1960s right up to this minute, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly has used his camera to capture a who’s who of political leaders. From the 1960s right up to this minute, Pulitzer […]

by Gretchen Wirges, Taming of the Review on November 21, 2019 at 8:00 am

The last night of Ballyhoo, by Alfred Uhry, takes place in 1939 in the Atlanta home of an assimilated Jewish family whose social-climbing matriarch, Boo (Eavan Clare Brunswick), directly rejects their heritage. Arizona Repertory Theatre’s […]

by Margaret Regan on November 14, 2019 at 8:00 am

“No Place,” a largescale oil painting by Paula Crawford, is a highlight of Take Nothing for Granted, a large group show at Pima College’s Bernal Gallery that also features pieces by Kate Breakey, Danny Lyon, Jenny Day, Ernesto […]