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Spring Arts: Razzle-Dazzle Art

Spring Arts: Razzle-Dazzle Art

This spring arts season is dazzling. Literally.

By Margaret Regan Feb 14, 2019

Spring Arts Theatre: Troupe Movements

Spring Arts Theatre: Troupe Movements

There is so much waiting behind the curtain this spring

By Sherilyn Forrester Feb 14, 2019

Spring Arts: Just Dance

Spring Arts: Just Dance

Alongside the talented locals, touring companies are coming through town to entertain fans of dance

By Margaret Regan Feb 14, 2019

Spring Arts Classical Music: Songs of the Season

Spring Arts Classical Music: Songs of the Season

Sometimes you need a good, deep breath and a dose of classical music in the springtime more than any other time of year.

By Emily Dieckman Feb 14, 2019

Where the Desert Meets the Sea: 6 & 6

Where the Desert Meets the Sea: 6 & 6

Artist Tom Baumgartner and geologist Scott Bennett chart a fascinating geologic history in six illuminated maps now on view at the University of Arizona Museum of Art

By Margaret Regan Feb 7, 2019

Art Meets Life with Andrew Schulz

Art Meets Life with Andrew Schulz

Schulz is coming fresh of a five-year tenure as associate dean for research in the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State University, where he helped create the Arts and Design Research Incubator

By Emily Dieckman Feb 7, 2019

¡Viva El Tango! Celebrate Master Tango Composer Piazzolla

¡Viva El Tango! Celebrate Master Tango Composer Piazzolla

This weekend, no fewer than three local arts groups (Ballet Tucson, the Tucson Guitar Society and Rogue Theatre), joined by an opera singer and a pair of musicians brought in from Italy, will celebrate his life and music in Viva Piazzolla!

By Margaret Regan Jan 31, 2019

Food for Thought: Two Trains Running

Food for Thought: Two Trains Running

Playwright August Wilson set a lofty goal for himself when he decided to try to distill and illuminate the African-American experience throughout the 20th century in America.

By Sherilyn Forrester Jan 31, 2019

Direct Connection

Direct Connection

There's a line in August Wilson'sTwo Trains Running, in which Holloway, a character described in the script's stage directions as "a man who all his life has voiced his outrage at injustice with little effect," does just that.

By Emily Dieckman Jan 24, 2019

Civil Action

Civil Action

ACLU Arizona, celebrating its 60th year, organized the traveling exhibition with the help of art professionals, including Shelley Cohen, former head of the Arizona Commission for the Arts.

By Margaret Regan Jan 17, 2019

A Terrible Beauty

A Terrible Beauty

When artist Annie Gordon visited the Asarco pit mine in Sahuarita, she was overwhelmed by its massive size. But she was also struck by its geometries and colors.

By Margaret Regan Jan 10, 2019

Trees, Fire, Rust and Quilts

Trees, Fire, Rust and Quilts

Two years ago, the Tucson Botanical Gardens made a giant splash with a garden-wide art exhibition about the influence of plants on Frida Kahlo’s artwork.

By Margaret Regan Dec 27, 2018

Stages of Life

Stages of Life

Yes, the time when editors yearn for features that designate the most significant happenings that occurred during the year in a writer’s particular purview. So after drifting into a reverie populated by the ghosts of this year past, here is the year-in-review, theater-wise.

By Sherilyn Forrester Dec 27, 2018

A Shining Star on Grant

A Shining Star on Grant

Five sculpted steel dancers are poised in a circle on a pedestal high above the rocky ground, bathed in a golden light.

By Margaret Regan Dec 20, 2018

Notes of Confidence

Notes of Confidence

If you are a Broadway musical geek—and really, who among us isn’t?—you already know that Meredith Willson’s The Music Man opened in New York this month 61 years ago.

By Sherilyn Forrester Dec 13, 2018

“Nollaig Shona”

“Nollaig Shona”

Nollaig Shona, everybody! That’s Irish for Merry Christmas! And in Tucson, if it’s Christmas time, that means the rollicking crew performing Irish Christmas in America is on its way.

By Margaret Regan Dec 13, 2018

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Laughing Stock: Wear your roller skates on Saturday

Laughing Stock: Wear your roller skates on Saturday

By Linda Ray Feb 15, 2019  11:00 am

Eviction Highlighted in Series of Library Events

Eviction Highlighted in Series of Library Events

By Pima County Public Library Feb 14, 2019  12:12 pm

Adoptable Pet: Brody Needs a Home

Adoptable Pet: Brody Needs a Home

By Humane Society of Southern Arizona Feb 13, 2019  3:39 pm

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    Pima Theatre - Mamma Mia! @ Pima Community College Center for the Arts

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    Show & Tell: Reprinting Geographies @ Petroglyphs Gallery

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    Ghost Stories & Fairy Tales: Make Believe in Miniature @ Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures

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