Tucson Events & News

by Margaret Regan on April 18, 2019 at 8:00 am

Two weeks before the play was set to open, one of its real-life characters was deported, a woman called Elena in the script. It's not every day that a real-life deportation changes a play. But Our Border Town, an […]

by Marguerite Saxton on April 18, 2019 at 8:00 am

This modernized version is an austere depiction of oppression, rebellion and sexuality, featuring maturing kids finding their bodies amongst shifting roles. The 1800s brought many influential things to Germany: Adolf […]

by Margaret Regan on April 11, 2019 at 8:00 am

Fresh from a Peace Corps tour in poverty-stricken Jamaica in the late sixties, photographer Bill Owens landed a newspaper job in Livermore, California. Fresh from a Peace Corps tour in poverty-stricken Jamaica in the […]

by Emily Dieckman on April 11, 2019 at 8:00 am

Don't think erotic art is your thing? Woodhall thinks it might be worth going anyway. Sculpture Resource Center artist Joshua Woodhall says he's been doing art ever since he had the motor skills for it. He has this […]

by Margaret Regan on April 11, 2019 at 8:00 am

Artist Chris Rush’s memoir tells a tale of an astonishing childhood Chris Rush, author of the daring new memoir The Light Years, first got Tucson's attention more 20 years ago, when he painted a comical mural of a […]

by Margaret Regan on April 4, 2019 at 8:00 am

Tucson now has a juried show of its own, inspired by the one in Loveland and others. Eight years ago, sculptor Al Glann decamped from Phoenix and moved south to Tucson. "Tucson is smaller. […]

by Gretchen Wirges on April 4, 2019 at 8:00 am

Flamenco music filled the spaces around me. The glow of soft red light cascaded down the curtain. Audience members of different ages and cultures wandered in. The curtain rose and I was enraptured for the duration of this incredible production. […]

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

With the air balmy and the skies sunny, it's time to take an art stroll. With the air balmy and the skies sunny, it's time to take an art stroll. Here's a look at three galleries all in the 100 block of East Sixth […]

by Leigh Moyer on March 21, 2019 at 8:00 am

"In an era where the word feminist feels like a battle cry, it was a delight to see the battle of the sexes, at least for a few bars, come to an end." I took my seat at Arizona Theatre Company's production of American […]

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

Almost everybody, religious or not, knows the story of David and Goliath. It's quite a story, but it's not the one Ashley Bowman wanted to tell in the narrative dance that she debuts this weekend. Almost everybody, […]

by Briannon Wilfong on March 14, 2019 at 8:00 am

A new dance performance examines the diagnosis of heartbreak People can physically suffer from a broken heart. It can be an untreatable syndrome that is like a heart attack, but it's really because of emotion. […]

by Jim Nintzel on March 7, 2019 at 8:00 am

Brian Jabas Smith pioneered the Know Your Product column in the Weekly during his time here editing the Music section. In a literary twist, we asked him to write about five of the many books that altered the course of his life. […]

by Margaret Regan on March 7, 2019 at 8:00 am

For the third time, Ballet Tucson has scored with the Balanchine Trust, winning permission to dance one of George Balanchine's revered neoclassical ballets. For the third time, Ballet Tucson has scored with the […]

by Jeff Gardner on February 28, 2019 at 8:00 am

In keeping with its tradition of decade-themed annual galas, the Rialto Theatre will transform into a disco inferno for its seventh annual fundraising gala In keeping with its tradition of decade-themed annual galas, the […]

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

Pioneer Arizona painter Smith made at least 14 paintings of the dramatic landscape that Chief Cochise had fought so hard to keep. Cézanne may have had his Mont Sainte-Victoire, and Monet his haystacks, but Effie […]