2021 -22 ARTS SEASON PREVIEW GUIDE | TUCSON | VOLUME 7
T H E AT E R | C O N C E R T S | M U S E U M S | C A L E N DA R PRESENTED BY:
CUE THE MUSIC, DIM THE LIGHTS, AND GET READY FOR ACTION
Is it time for you to take action? Talk to your doctor about how medical imaging can help you find answers through screening, diagnostics, and treatment WE TAKE CARE OF THOSE CLOSEST TO YOU.
VISIT RADLTD.COM • CALL (520) 733-7226
2021-22 SEASON Sponsor Welcome
WE’RE ON TO THE NEXT ACT, welcome back to the stage! While our community continues to navigate the uncertainty of everyday life, one thing that we do know is that Southern Arizonans can benefit from thoughtful and inspirational story telling. Another 'known' you can count on: Radiology Ltd. is here for you offering high quality subspecialized radiology care with state-of-the-art technology, and lowrisk image-guided procedures. Radiology Ltd. has served the medical imaging needs of southern Arizona for over 85 years. What began as a small group of radiologists has grown into a thriving organization of over 400 employees, covering multiple local and regional hospitals and providing comprehensive imaging services at ten outpatient imaging centers throughout the Tucson metro area. We are big enough to be the largest radiology provider in southern Arizona, yet small enough to genuinely appreciate each of our patients as individuals.
Logan Ward Chief Executive Officer Radiology Ltd.
David Jeck, M.D. President and Chairman Radiology Ltd.
As we move on to our next act, individually and as a community, we want to thank the arts, our healthcare heroes and everyone in Tucson for continuing to band together.
Bradley Bohnert, M.D. Vice Chairman Radiology Ltd. ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
1
Explore the world with exceptional professors at the University of Arizona Online and in-person classes available LEARN MORE
hsp.arizona.edu
Join us for the 2021 Tucson Humanities Festival: STORYTELLING a series of public lectures and events featuring scary stories, myths and fables, and real-life tales from special guests. Presented by the University of Arizona College of Humanities. THE INNOVATORS: An Evening with Walter Isaacson
FRI OCT 8
LOCATION: Centennial Hall
THU OCT 14
LOCATION: Health Sciences Innovation Building
THU OCT 19
ANGELS & DEVILS: An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea
ASIAN AMERICANS: A History of Identity, Contributions & Challenges with Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña LOCATION: Health Sciences Innovation Building For times, tickets and information on these and other Tucson Humanities Festival events, visit
humanitiesfestival.arizona.edu FESTIVAL SPONSORS & PROGRAMMING PARTNERS
TABLE OF CONTENTS FALL 2021
1 7
SPONSOR WELCOME: RADIOLOGY LTD PUBLISHER'S NOTE: ACT ONE
PERFORMING ARTS 12
PERFORMING ARTS SEASON PREVIEW ARIZONA OPERA
15
ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE
16
ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY
19
ARTS EXPRESS THEATRE
8
20 BROADWAY IN TUCSON DESERT VIEW 2 3 PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 2 4 FOX TUCSON THEATRE 26 LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP ROGUE THEATRE, THE
SOUTHERN ARIZONA 29 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
31
TRUE CONCORD VOICES & ORCHESTRA
33
TUCSON DESERT SONG FESTIVAL
35
TUCSON JAZZ FESTIVAL
36 TUCSON REGIONAL BALLET 37
TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Issued FALL 2021
43 TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART 4 4 SONORAN GLASS SCHOOL
ON STAGE
|
38 VISUAL ARTS SEASON PREVIEW
|
VISUAL ARTS
Volume 7
|
Annual Publication
27
39 CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY 41
THE MINI TIME MACHINE MUSEUM
45 TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS 46 UA MUSEUM OF ART 47
CALENDAR CONTENT SPONSORED BY FEATURED ARTS GROUPS
ON Stage is made possible by Act One, an Arizona-based charitable organization that provides access to the arts through field trips for Title 1 schools, and through the Act One Culture Pass. 910 E. Osborn Road, Suite B-1 Phoenix, AZ 85014 (602) 343-6239 act1az.org info@act1az.org Executive Director: Bernadette Carroll Director of Arts Education: Dr. Beth Maloney
Ads sold by: onmediaaz.com | sales@onmediaaz.com CEO: Linda “Mac” Perlich COO/Production Manager: Deidra Viberg Director of Sales: Michelle Schneider Senior Account Executives: Lisa Grannis, Robyn Lambert Circulation, Marketing & Events Manager: Morgan McClellan Digital & Social Media Coordinator: Brit Reid Accounting and Administrative Coordinator: Sheryl Kaufman Graphic design by snugbutter.com Cover art by CONTRIBUTING WRITER Beverly Medlyn FIND THIS SEASON’S CALENDAR ONLINE AT ONSTAGEAZ.COM
Tucson’s Most Preferred Birthing Center for Generations of Stars! tmcaz.com
PROVIDING ACCESS TO THE ARTS! B e c a u s e eve r yo n e s h o u l d h ave a cc e s s to t h e a r t s . For hundreds of thousands of students and families in Arizona, the opportunity to experience the arts is beyond their reach. Through educational arts field trips for students from Title I schools and the Culture Pass available at libraries, Act One puts the transformative power of the arts in the palms of their hands.
Join us to support access to the arts for all! www.act1az.org | 602.343.6239 | @act1az 6
BACK TO SCHOOL MEANS Act One Field Trips!
IN
just a few weeks, Act One will be filling buses full of children and traveling to newly reopened arts venues in Tucson. Imagine the children’s excitement as they exit the bus to experience Tucson’s beautiful museums, theaters, and concert halls. The anticipation in the air is almost palpable, as their eyes take in the sites around them: the art, the architecture, the performance, the dance, the music, the acting, the artists and more. After a year of weathering a pandemic, this first field trip will feel like a celebration! Over the past ten years, Act One has touched the lives of 240,000, Title I students in Arizona by providing arts-based field trips. For many of these children, this is their first introduction to the arts and their first visit to a museum or a theater. As expected, access to arts education was significantly reduced this past year not only in the state of Arizona but also nationwide. Our organization aims to restore access to the arts to the most underserved populations and provide invaluable arts education experiences.
Act One is not only bringing busloads of children to the arts, we have also created the very first virtual reality field trip program in Arizona. The Act One VR field trip program, “Freedom in Expression” will launch this fall into schools in Tucson and the far corners of Southern Arizona to bring an exciting, immersive arts experience directly to the classroom. We hope you will visit our new website act1az. org, to learn more about all of our programs at Act One. Consider becoming a donor to support our mission of providing access to the arts. With your help, just imagine the children we can reach! Bernadette Carroll Executive Director For more information, visit act1az.org.
T
ucson arts organizations are welcoming back patrons to live performances and new experiences after more than a year of closures and limitations due to the pandemic. The return of award-winning theater, live concerts and evocative visual arts is testimony to the art world’s creativity and resilience. New partnerships and enhanced infrastructure were developed during the hiatus, which will enhance this season’s offerings. Here are just a few of the exciting highlights. For more details, read the stories inside.
THEATER Two world premieres are among the lineup for Arizona Theatre Company at the Temple of Music and Art. Immigration, family and the American Dream are the themes of how to make an American Son. US Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg and
8
Sandra Day O’Connor are the focus of Justice, a new musical. Hamilton makes its Tucson premiere this holiday season. Broadway in Tucson’s season kicks off with the worldwide sensation at Centennial Hall. Wicked, Jersey Boys and Tootsie also are on the roster. Arizona Repertory Theatre produces six works a season utilizing the talents of students at the University of Arizona College of Fine Arts. Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods is the first production, followed by classic and contemporary offerings including a rock ‘n’ roll musical. The Rogue Theatre, an intimate 170-seat setting near campus, is known for bringing great literature to the stage. This season includes Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel The Awakening, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Shakespeare’s classic Twelfth Night. Arts Express Theatre found itself without a home as a result of venues shutting down
in 2020. The 38-year-old company forged a partnership with Park Place, where it will present a season of new hits and old classics.
MUSIC Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director José Luis Gomez has crafted a spectacular opening night September 24 with trumpeter Pacho Flores playing contemporary Latin American works, followed by the Festive Overture by William Grant Still and concluding with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. Women composers play a prominent role in the season, which unfolds at Tucson Music Hall. The power of music to connect us and make us move is the season theme of The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, as the full orchestra returns with a diverse lineup of acclaimed international guest soloists led by Maestro Linus Lerner. Performances at various Southern Arizona venues feature music from ballets and operatic dance scenes by notable composers.
WICKED | PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS
WELCOME BACK! Presenting the 2021-2022 season: Live and in-person
The Tucson Desert Song Festival, an annual gathering in early winter, celebrates Women of Song. Composer Jennifer Higdon created a song cycle making its world premiere with an all-star cast. In Saddlebrooke TWO, look for shows of country, classical, rock and soul at DesertView Performing Arts Center.
DANCE Tucson Regional Ballet welcomes Brittany De Grofft as new artistic director. The American Ballet Theatre soloist is returning to her native Tucson to direct A Southwest Nutcracker, a reimagining of the traditional Nutcracker with a southwestern twist. Once again, the organization partners with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra for the holiday favorite. Don Quixote is set for spring.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
9
SUPPORTING LOCAL ARTS NEVER FELT SO GOOD!
Arizona Hearing Specialists is locally owned and has been providing a full range of diagnostic and preventive hearing health care services to Southern Arizona since 1981. Call to schedule a comprehensive hearing evaluation today!
520.719.1307
FOUR CONVENIENT LOCATIONS Northwest Tucson 7574 N. La Cholla Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85741
Ventana/Foothills 6969 E. Sunrise Dr., #200 Tucson, AZ 85750
Rita Ranch 7355 S. Houghton Rd., #105 Tucson, AZ 85747
Green Valley 512 E. Whitehouse Canyon Rd., #196 Green Valley, AZ 85614
Find us online at www.ArizonaHearing.com | Facebook.com/ArizonaHearing
IS YOUR KITCHEN
a Show Stopper?
Celebrating 20 Years in Business 7780 N. OR ACLE #150 • (520) 531-9187 • southwestkitchen.com CUSTOM
CABINETS
|
DESIGN
|
REMODEL
|
REFACING
EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY
ARIZONA OPERA CELEBRATES 50TH SEASON with Audience Favorites and World Premieres
A
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC | PHOTO BY J. DAVID LEVY
rizona Opera (AZO) elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music by presenting not only audience favorites, but world premiere commissions and little-known works that will become traditional masterpieces for generations to come. Arizona Opera, which will begin its 50th Anniversary Season this fall, produces fully-staged operas, concerts, and collaborative programs throughout the state of Arizona each year, and is among only a handful of companies in the U.S. that regularly performs in more than one city. Since its inaugural year in 1971, Arizona Opera has produced more than 200 fully-staged operas and concerts. The company’s artistic history is rich with a blend of traditional repertoire featuring baroque, bel canto, and verismo works, turn-of-the-century masterpieces, operettas, and American operas. Beyond the stage, Arizona Opera’s Arlyn M. Brewster OperaTunity program brings innovative arts programming to over 40,000 students annually across 120 schools in Arizona, 89% of which are Title I, with limited arts curriculum in place. During the pandemic, Arizona Opera supported our educational partners as they adjusted to the reality of virtual teaching and created engaging programming for their students. As we move back into in-person educational programming, Arizona Opera is committed to bringing our high-quality and enriching learning opportunities back to schools for the 2021/22 academic year. 12
“We’re committed to engaging, inspiring, and including people of all ages, backgrounds, and races on the stage as well as through our NextGen Initiative training programs, including our Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist and Production Apprentice programs, K-12 Education Programs, as well as our LOUD! (Living Opera, Understanding Diversity) and UnMic’d digital offerings,” stated Arizona Opera President and General Director, Joseph Specter. “These offerings reflect our commitment to adapting and innovating in new and exciting ways.” Arizona Opera’s pivot to digital offerings in the 2020/21 Season generated thousands of views across various media platforms, an advantage unbound by the geographic barriers that have defined our audiences in typical seasons. Through traditional works like Carmen, a timeless classic opera, and newer works like The Copper Queen and Riders of the Purple Sage, we’re reaching people of all backgrounds while honoring and expanding the opera art form. The 2021/22 Season will open with the McDougall RED Series film premiere of The Copper Queen. The production, originally slated to be performed in-theatre, was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then reimagined as the company’s first film project. The Copper Queen Film features Arizona Opera’s first ever all-female director/conductor/designer team, helmed by Crystal Manich, and is being produced in association with Manley Films. It tells the dramatic story of Julia Lowell, a resident
of The Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee, Arizona in 1910. A century later, Addison Moore—a stranger to Bisbee—visits Room 315, the site of Julia’s tragic death, where her ghost now famously roams. This riveting tale—told across the generations—is one of human bondage, furtive romance, secret connections, and ultimately—redemption. Both longtime opera devotees and newcomers are invited to attend and explore Arizona Opera with curiosity, beginning this December with our return to in-theatre performances and a new, holiday-themed mariachi opera, El Milagro del Recuerdo (The Miracle of Remembering). A prequel to the sensational mariachi opera Cruzar la Cara de la Luna that was presented by Arizona Opera as part of its 2014/15 Season, El Milagro del Recuerdo brings audiences back to where the story of Cruzar all began: Michoacán, Mexico. Set during Christmas, the opera lovingly explores the themes of traditions and familial bonds while its characters deal with life-changing decisions and dream of something more. Director and Librettist Leonard Foglia comments: “The piece deals with the basic issues surrounding the choices people have to make in life. It tells universal, human stories. How do we make decisions about what’s important? I hope it resonates with everyone.” As the new year begins, audiences will be tempted to come to the theatre and become mesmerized by one of the most famous seductresses of all time. The ultimate diva, the gypsy Carmen can ignite men’s desires and fill their hearts with passion at a single glance. When Don José, a naïve soldier fighting in the Spanish Civil War, gets caught in her web, jealousy rages and anarchy reigns supreme. The thrilling score by French composer Georges Bizet includes some of the most popular and recognizable music in all of opera, including The Habanera and The Toreador Song.
Music, presented as part of the Marlu Allan and Scott Stallard Modern Masterworks Series. A Little Night Music is the Tony Award and Drama Desk-winning Best Musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, with production and costume design by American fashion icon, Isaac Mizrahi. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film, Smiles of a Summer Night, A Little Night Music focuses on a deliciously tangled web of affairs, all ripe with the possibility of new love and second chances. A comedy of manners with rapturous music, it is moving, witty, heartbreaking, and— most of all—a celebration of love. Arizona Opera’s 50th Anniversary Main Stage Series concludes with an all-new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte led by director E. Loren Meeker. This playful opera tells the story of two sisters who are falsely led to believe that their fiancés have been called to war. In truth, their lovers were only out to test their fidelity, so they return home—in disguise—to seek the truth. Among the delightful cast of characters in this Mozart classic are Despina, the nosy maid, and Don Alfonso, a philosopher who is actually behind the scenes pulling the strings and making it all happen.
Stage Director Stephanie Havey says of this beloved masterpiece: “Carmen juxtaposes the facade of civilization and the mysterious forces of primitive desires. Carmen glorifies freedom above all else, challenging the norms that govern hearts and minds. I am looking forward to bringing this iconic opera and its disruptive heroine to life.”
As Arizona Opera returns to the stage after more than a year of pivoting and reinvention, many have not missed a beat. With programming, educational opportunities, and a successful studio series, Arizona Opera continues to not just survive but thrive. Having answered every challenge with a bold and resounding “we will overcome”, Arizona Opera continues to make great strides going forward with world premiere commissioned operas, thoughtful and deliberate diversity initiatives, as well as newly reimagined classics, immersive educational opportunities for opera lovers of all ages, and an experience equal to none.
Spring brings to Arizona Opera the magic of rebirth, love, and romance in A Little Night
For more information, visit azopera.org or call (520) 293-4336. ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
13
More information on the 2021-2022 season available at theatre.arizona.edu Senior, Military, UA Employee/Alumni/Student discounts Arizona Arts Box Office | (520)621-3341 14
TFTV returns to the stage with diverse, thrilling works
T
BA THEATRE STUDIES STUDENTS BECCA WORDEN (IN THE MOON) AND ROBBIE VOIGT IN FROM THE FISHBOWL (2020). PHOTO BY JULIUS SCHLOSBURG
he School of Theatre, Film & Television (TFTV) at the University of Arizona College of Fine Arts is proud to present the return of live, in-person, public performances. The School’s 2021/22 six-show season will comprise four Arizona Repertory Theatre (ART) productions and two productions presented by the Next Performance Collective. Beloved in the local theatre landscape and regularly ranking in Onstage’s ‘National Top 30 Musical Theatre Programs,’ ART is a training program modeled after professional theatre companies and comprises students from the BFA program in Acting and Musical Theatre. A new initiative of the BA Theatre Studies division, Next Performance Collective houses outstanding student-devised theatre pieces and works by emerging playwrights. Students from the Design and Technology program will provide technical and production support on all productions. “With the upcoming season we look forward to amplifying under-represented voices, and to providing students across the School with an opportunity to work on a broad range of classical, contemporary and self-devised work,” says TFTV Director Andy Belser.
Taking place from October through May, the School’s performance season will open with two ART productions: Into the Woods, one of Stephen Sondheim’s most popular and enchanting musicals, and Three Sisters, the Chekhov classic adapted by one of the leading voices in contemporary theatre, Sarah Ruhl. Next is the Next Performance Collective presentation of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody - a modern riff on Everyman, one of the oldest plays in the English language. ART presents Living Dead in Denmark, a witty action-adventure/ horror sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet written by Qui Nguyen, along with the rock-and-roll musical High Fidelity, and the season concludes with the New Directions Festival, the first in an annual festival of thrillingly unpredictable created content generated by BA Theatre students. For more information, visit theatre.arizona.edu or call (520) 621-3341.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
15
TOGETHER AGAIN! A season to embrace the unexpected joy in everyday life
ATC’s
long-awaited 54th Season immerses audiences in joyful stories about how we learn to heal and love each other, bringing together audiences to experience world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today. This season’s lineup includes two world premieres, notes Sean Daniels, ATC’s Kasser Family Artistic Director. “This is just the beginning of shows starting in Arizona before they play the rest of the world.” He notes that how to make an American Son received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and will go Off-Broadway after its ATC run. Justice already has theaters lining up to produce it. “These are true examples of ATC becoming the local theatre the world pays attention to, and I’m excited for other states to see what starts in Arizona.”
16
Experience ATC at the Temple of Music and Art: My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend created by Charissa Bertels, Christian Duhamel and Edward Bell, directed by Sean Daniels (September 25 - October 16). What happens when a 20-something Broadway baby meets a Shakespeare- and Schubert-loving octogenarian? Magic, music and friendship. This delightful, award-winning musical shares how a most unlikely pair discover themselves when their friendship blossoms. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, directed by Sean Daniels (November 6 - December 4). Picking up two years after Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice ends, this cleverly imagined story stars Mary Bennet, unmarried, nerdy, and growing tired of her role as the obedient middle sister. But an unexpected guest gives Mary the boost she needs to embrace her independence and finally find true love. Celebrate the holidays with your family, friends, and favorite early 19th century characters.
CABARET | PHOTO BY TIM FULLER
Women in Jeopardy! by Wendy MacLeod, directed by Sean Daniels (January 15 - February 5). Liz’s best friends want her to be happy, but the dentist she’s smitten with is just plain creepy. Now they have to step in and find the answers to their questions -- while holding on to their wine glasses. A comedy about the role of friendship as aging commences.
epic three-person new musical built of sweeping songs, urgent conversations about equality, and human heroines, we come to know these two iconic justices at the height of their power. Through a third character, Regina, we discover how O’Connor and Ginsburg inspire, challenge, and propel the next generation of changemakers and trailblazers in American jurisprudence.
Nina Simone: Four Women by Christina Ham, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene (February 26 - March 19). Infused with traditional hymns along with her own songs and covers, this musical imagines a conversation between Simone and three Black women from various backgrounds and their fight to overcome secondclass status, racism, and stereotypes.
how to make an American Son by christopher oscar peña, directed by Kimberly Senior, in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (June 4 - 25). This moving new play focuses on the complexities of privilege, citizenship, and the most complex relationship of all: family. In the wake of a personal crisis, son Orlando suddenly finds himself responsible for the fate of a treasured undocumented worker and the future of his father’s entire enterprise. What happens when the promise of the American Dream collides with the reality of immigration and family?
Justice by Lauren Gunderson, music by Bree Lowdermilk, lyrics by Kait Kerrigan, directed by Melissa Crespo (April 9 - 30). It is 1993, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just joined the United States Supreme Court; the first and only other woman there, Sandra Day O’Connor, is ready to welcome her and get to work. In an intimate,
For more information, visit atc.org or call (833) ATC-SEAT.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
17
T O E T H I N G T O N T H E AT R E! 2021-22 SEASON
Call GCU Arena box office at 6 0 2- 6 3 9-89 7 9 for tickets
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 By John Bishop
| Sept. 3 – 5 and 10 – 12
Radium Girls
By D. W. Gregory
| Oct. 8 – 10 and 15 – 17
Addams Family
Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, Music and Lyrics by Andres Lippa Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams | Nov. 19 – 21 and 26 – 28
Winter Dance Concert: Emerge Dec. 10 – 12
The Lady’s Not for Burning
By Christopher Fry
| Feb. 11 – 13 and 18 – 20
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Lyrics by Tim Rice, Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
| April 1 – 3 and 8 – 10
Spring Dance Concert: Testimony April 22 – 24
Call today to book your seats! Grand Canyon University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.. ©2021 Grand Canyon University 21COF0148
18
ARTS EXPRESS THEATRE PIVOTS IN A COVID-19 WORLD
A
mid a pandemic, Arts Express Theatre (AET) has been reimagined with a new theatre complex, bold Main Stage season, and a wide array of performing arts education. In 2020, venues that AET relied on for performance space shut down, leaving the 38-year-old company without a place to perform. A lengthy search led to a partnership with Park Place Mall. “Our newly remodeled venue offers a beautiful audience experience, flexible cabaret-style seating and ample parking,” says Karen Wiese,
Producer and Executive Director. Audiences agreed, and AET recently signed a five-year lease. The remainder of AET’s current season includes both new hits and old classics from a broad range of styles. “Come and re-discover the magic of LIVE musical theatre! AET is thrilled about its new home and robust year-round programming and looks forward to sharing it with audiences,” adds Wiese. Subscriptions are also available. For more information, visit arts-express.org or call (520) 319-0400.
October 22-31 December
3-19
February 18-27
Exceptional Musical Theatre & Arts Education
Tickets Now Available! CALL 520-319-0400 ARTS-EXPRESS.ORG
March 25April 3 April 22May 1 ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
19
JERSEY BOYS
T
he revolutionary Broadway in Tucson season kicks off with Hamilton this November making its Tucson premiere this holiday season, the worldwide sensation lands at Centennial Hall for 3 weeks. The 2022 season starts with a sumptuous new production of the classic musical My Fair Lady, coming to Tucson featuring your favorite songs and gorgeous new costumes and sets. This February, see the 10-time Tony winning original Best Musical The Band’s Visit. This production features a Grammy-winning score that seduces your soul and sweeps you off your feet. The funniest new musical in years, Tootsie, has audiences rolling 20
in the aisles and comes to Centennial Hall this spring. The current Best Musical Tony award winner kicks off April with a bang, Hadestown intertwines two mythic tales between Orpheus and Eurydice with Hades and Persephone in a love story for today…and always. The season ends in July with the beloved film turned new musical, Pretty Woman featuring a new score by Grammy winner Bryan Adams and your favorite movie moments in this romantic fantasy. Also featured this season are 2 additional Broadway events and one blockbuster return to Tucson. Wicked returns to Tucson after 10 years for a limited two-week engagement
BROADWAY IN TUCSON RETURNS THIS NOVEMBER! Our Biggest Season Ever
that will surely be “popular.” Jersey Boys is “making its way back” to Tucson followed by the Southern Arizona premiere of Come From Away. This New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them on September 12. Finally, two one-night engagements are coming to Centennial Hall. Alton Brown is hitting the road with a new culinary variety show, Beyond the Eats. Audiences can expect more comedy, more music, more highly unusual cooking demos, and more potentially dangerous science-y
stuff. The Simon & Garfunkel Story is touring North America again this year! Using huge projection photos and original film footage, the show features a full live band performing all the hits including ‘Mrs. Robinson’, ‘Cecilia’, ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, ‘Homeward Bound’ and many more. For more information, visit BroadwayinTucson.com.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
21
REBUILDING Lives The UNITED Way.
GIVE UNITED TODAY. UnitedWayTucson.org
W
hat a delicious experience, to be back in a theater seat surrounded by smiling neighbors, and the stage so close you can almost touch it. After a year of strictly virtual entertainment live concerts can seem almost surreal in their immediacy, the sheer power of performers all-consuming. With a jolt of the first few familiar notes, we remember why, year after year, we buy tickets to those same artists, same composers, same shows. It is to lose ourselves in that moment, be transported and transformed. The year 2020 will not be something most of us like to remember, but it did serve as a stark reminder of just how significant – and fragile – these moments of joy, inspiration and connection are in our lives. Perhaps it is something we will never again take for granted. Entertainment for the Mind, Body and Soul has always been our mission, but those words
DESERTVIEW PERFORMING ARTS CENTER returns with a renewed sense of purpose have never rung as strong as they do today. With a renewed sense of purpose, DesertView Performing Arts Center (DVPAC) is back for the 2021-2022 season. Country, classical, rock, soul, the ‘60s, the ‘80s – whatever was on your “as soon as this is over” list, you’ll find it at DVPAC. Two fantastic shows will light up this Christmas season: 3 INTERNATIONAL TENORS celebrating the timeless classics of such greats as Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli, and SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS featuring The Voice star, Jose Figueroa Jr. For more information, visit DVPAC.NET or call (520) 825-2818.
VOYAGER
OCTOBER 9TH
3 INTERNATIONAL TENORS DECEMBER 4TH
SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS
DECEMBER 11TH
DECEMBER '63 OCTOBER 23RD
MIRAGE
SEPTEMBER 25TH ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
23
S
ince 1930, The Fox has gathered people together and been heralded as the place to be. Through the years, this one-of-a-kind space has shaped cherished memories, built stronger community connections, and served as a source of pride at the heart of our downtown. This season, you’ll find familiar favorites as well as new artists to discover in one or more of our all-new seven performance series that each highlight something the Fox does especially well. Whatever your tastes and interests, the Fox is thrilled to bring you the artists to see in this truly special place to be. Legends: From Broadway (An Evening with Kristin Chenoweth) to Bluegrass (My Bluegrass Heart with Bela Flex, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutten) and places in between (Judy Collins, Don McLean with Al Stewart, and Lindsey Buckingham), celebrated stars shine especially bright in our iconic space. Fine Vintages: These artists bring you tunes as beautifully preserved and worthy of experiencing again and again as the Fox herself! It’s a mix of classic rock, oldies, juke box favorites and other nostalgia that make up the soundtrack of your life. (Atlanta Rhythm Section with Firefall, One Night of Queen, 24
Classic Albums Live Perform CCR, and The Music of Cream - Disraeli Gears & Clapton Classics, Croce Plays Croce). Global Journeys: A world of discovery awaits with emerging artists, global cultures, and shows that spark curiosity and inspire learning. (Flor de Toloache, Jesse Cook, The Martha Redbone Roots Project, Mariachi Sol De México Presents Jose Hernández Merry-Achi Christmas, An Irish Christmas, and three events from the renowned National Geographic LIVE Series). Listening Room: Known for its pristine acoustics, the Fox delivers a fine listening experience. Artists from four Fox favorite genres — Jazz (Big Bad VooDoo Daddy, Pat Metheny Side-Eye with James Francies & Joe Dyson, Boney James, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas in Mardi Gras Mambo, The Hot Sardines, and Chris Botti), Country (Asleep at the Wheel
Celebrating 50 Years of Music, Amy Grant - Our Time is Now, Sara Evans At Christmas, The Oak Ridge Boys, and Michael Martin Murphey & The Rio Grande Band), Blues (The Robert Cray Band, Taj Mahal Quartet, and Keb’ Mo’) and Singer-Songwriter (Chris Isaak, Rickie Lee Jones, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin and Marc Cohn Together in Concert, Joan Osborne & The Weepies, and Storm Large & Le Bonheur), the Listening Room showcases artists that deserve an acoustically superior hall, a spectacular stage, and an audience eager to enjoy their talents. KIT Family & Youth - Kids in the Theatre (KIT) is a fresh, thrilling series of performances made for kids and their adults to enjoy together, as the Fox continues its generations long commitment to Tucson’s youth (The Passing Zone Saves the World, The Underwater Bubble Show, Jackson Galaxy Total Cat Mojo Live, and Chris Perondi’s Stunt Dog Experience).
KEB 'MO'
RETURN TO THE FOX The Place to Be. The Artists to See.
Outburst Comedy – It’s high time for laughs, laughs, and more laughs as we gather the community together again with standup (Paula Poundstone, Randy Rainbow - The Pink Glasses Tour, and Tom Papa Family Reunion Tour), improv, (Whose Live Anyway?), and artists with funny stories to tell (Peter Sagal). Picture Palace: Exceptional film experiences fit for a true picture palace — themed programming, live on stage features (The Princess Bride - An Inconceivable Evening with Cary Elwes), regional cinema (Cinema Tucsón), and classic 35mm screenings are all in store. What are YOU going to see this season? It’s time to return to the Fox. We make memories. We make connections. We make Tucson proud. For more information, visit FoxTucson.com or call (520) 547-3040.
䰀䤀嘀䔀 吀䠀䔀䄀吀刀䔀 圀伀刀䬀匀䠀伀倀ᤠ匀 一䔀圀 䌀䄀䴀倀唀匀 䤀匀 䰀䤀䜀䠀吀䤀一䜀 唀倀℀
䌀栀攀挀欀 漀甀琀 琀栀攀 ㈀ ㈀ⴀ㈀ ㈀㈀ 䴀愀椀渀猀琀愀最攀 愀渀搀 䌀栀椀氀搀爀攀渀ᤠ猀 吀栀攀愀琀爀攀 猀攀愀猀漀渀猀 愀琀 琀栀攀 渀攀眀 䰀椀瘀攀 吀栀攀愀琀爀攀 圀漀爀欀猀栀漀瀀 挀愀洀瀀甀猀 愀琀 ㌀㌀㈀㈀ 䔀⸀ 䘀漀爀琀 䰀漀眀攀氀氀 刀漀愀搀 椀渀 吀甀挀猀漀渀⸀ 夀漀甀✀氀氀 攀渀樀漀礀 琀栀攀 猀栀漀眀猀 椀渀 漀甀爀 琀眀漀 渀攀眀 挀漀洀昀漀爀琀愀戀氀攀 椀渀搀漀漀爀 琀栀攀愀琀爀攀猀⸀ 䴀漀爀攀 椀渀昀漀爀洀愀琀椀漀渀 愀渀搀 琀椀挀欀攀琀猀 愀琀 䰀椀瘀攀吀栀攀愀琀爀攀圀漀爀欀猀栀漀瀀⸀漀爀最
A FRESH START for Live Theatre Workshop
W
e are welcoming back audiences! During the last 1.5 years, Live Theatre Workshop has renovated our new theatre campus, offered outdoor drive-in shows and online theatre classes for kids, and presented an indoor mini summer season this year. And now, we are unveiling our full 2021-2022 indoor Mainstage and Children’s Theatre seasons beginning in October. Audiences will enjoy our two brand new, comfortable theatres, and our pre- and post-show outdoor patio.
26
The Mainstage season offers 8 plays filled with humor, intrigue and humanity—sure to delight Tucson's most discerning theatregoers. The Children’s Theatre season includes 7 shows that will captivate you no matter your age. Theatre can be a magical experience and whether you come to one show or both full seasons, you will leave wanting to come back! Learn more and sign up for our email show announcements at LiveTheatreWorkshop.org and find us on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and Twitter.
ROGUE | PHOTO BY TIM FULLER
GREAT LITERATURE. INTIMATE SETTING. CHALLENGING IDEAS.
"The Rogue Theatre loves theatrical meat." —Arizona Daily Star
BECOME A ROGUE AND JOIN THIS PASSIONATE MISSION!
As you walk into The Rogue Theatre, giant puppets and painted Renaissance tapestries greet you. Fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies fill the snack bar. Live musicians play on the stage. An enthusiastic crowd gathers on the colorful Mexican tile in the historic lobby.
Season subscriptions and individual tickets are now available for The Rogue’s 17th Season: Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel The Awakening, brought to the stage through Christopher Johnson’s insightful adaptation, Shakespeare’s ever-popular Twelfth Night, Arthur Miller’s riveting Death of a Salesman, Christopher Chen’s contemporary Passage, loosely based on E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India, and a new adaptation of the Virginia Woolf classic, Mrs Dalloway.
When Joe McGrath and Cindy Meier began The Rogue Theatre in 2005, they decided they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with the world’s greatest authors. They wanted to produce theatre that was beautiful and profound. And they wanted to find a group of people, an audience, who longed to share challenging and meaningful stories about the human experience.
SIXTEEN YEARS LATER, THE ROGUE THEATRE IS STILL GOING STRONG. The Rogue Theatre is an intimate 170-seat Small Professional Theatre in the heart of Tucson at The Historic Y, with an adjacent parking lot. The Rogue employs Tucson actors, directors and designers in a five-play season, with post-show discussions after every performance. In 2012 The Rogue won the American Theatre Wing (founder of the Tony Awards) National Theatre Award.
"I am constantly amazed by The Rogue Theatre’s creativity and ability to show our human propensities and myteries in such a way as to catch our souls." — Dottie Davis, audience member For more information, visit TheRogueTheatre.org or call (520) 551-2053.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
27
28
2021-2022 Season
•
Linus Lerner, Music Director
Dancing for Joy!
October 16 and 17 Verdi and Grieg
November 13 and 14
Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn
February 5 and 6
March 12 and 13
Flying High with Holland, Stravinsky, Gershwin and talented youth
April 30 and May 1
Dvořák and Moszkowski
Beethoven, Borodin and talented youth
featuring winners of the 2020 and 2022 Dorothy
Vanek Youth Concerto Competition. Join SASO THE SOUTHERN in celebrating the power of music to connect us ARIZONA SYMPHONY and make us move! ORCHESTRA PRESENTS SATURDAY PERFORMANCES: a season of 7:30 pm at DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, SaddleBrooke celebration and SUNDAY PERFORMANCES: movement 3:00 pm at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, SW Sanctuary, 7575 N. Paseo Del Norte, Tucson
A
fter a year of small ensembles and live-streamed events, the full orchestra returns with a diverse lineup of acclaimed international guest soloists led by Maestro Linus Lerner. The 2021-2022 performances feature music from ballets and operatic dance scenes by Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Stravinsky, and suites of dances by Dvořák and Grieg. Other season highlights include a collaboration with the Tucson Flute Club and performances
For more information, visit sasomusic.org or call (520) 308-6226.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
29
Imagine a World Transformed 21 - 22 SEASON
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT OCTOBER 22 - 24
FROM CONFLICT TO PEACE Haydn Mass in Time of War Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem NOVEMBER 19 - 21
FROM ANTICIPATION TO JOY Lessons & Carols by Candlelight DECEMBER 9 - 12
FROM SILENCED TO SINGING
In Partnership with Tucson Desert Song Festival
JANUARY 28 - 30
FROM THE EDGE TO HOPE FEBRUARY 25 - 27
FROM MOURNING TO DANCING Bach B-Minor Mass MARCH 25 - 27
CLOSE-UP SERIES Susanna Phillips, soprano FEBRUARY 1 Paul Max Tipton, bass-baritone MARCH 1 Kim Leeds, mezzo-soprano & Gene Stenger, tenor MARCH 29
TrueConcord.org
IN
SUSANNA PHILLIPS
A NEW DAY Imagine a World Transformed
the light of this NEW DAY, True Concord Voices & Orchestra’s 2021-22 season expresses hope and renewal and explores our collective dreams for where – and who – we aspire to be.
From the Edge to Hope is the world premiere of American composer Jake Runestad’s powerful work exploring the climate crisis — the threat of inaction and the need for reversal to save the earth, our home.
Critically acclaimed True Concord returns for its 18th season with an innovative combination of great masterpieces and thought-provoking newer works all relevant to life today.
Close-Up - a series of intimate solo performances includes Metropolitan Opera star Susanna Phillips, soprano singing arias and art songs; Paul Max Tipton, bass baritone singing Brahms, Britten and the Great American Songbook; Kim Leeds, mezzo-soprano and Gene Stenger, tenor, enlighten the experience of America’s immigrants through song.
The season opens with a celebration in From Darkness to Light – a concert reflecting this moment – stepping out of the darkness of adversity into the light of a new day. In November, music takes us on a journey through conflict to glorious peace with Haydn’s Mass in Time of War and Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem. December enjoy the glow of candles and the warmth of community joined together through music for the annual Lessons & Carols by Candlelight.
True Concord’s season closer From Mourning to Dancing, is the much-anticipated Bach B-Minor Mass, one of the supreme achievements of classical music and the pinnacle of Bach’s life’s work! For more information, visit trueconcord.org or call (520) 401-2651.
January’s premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s work celebrates women’s voices. Featuring NY Metropolitan Opera star, Susanna Phillips, From Silenced to Singing highlights women from across the world and the importance of finding, and using, your voice. ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
31
10th ANNUAL
Tucson Desert Song Festival Featuring a world premiere song cycle by acclaimed composer Jennifer Higdon
Sasha Cooke
Susan Graham
Susanna Phillips Vanessa Vasquez
Dianne Reeves
Nicole Cabell
Ailyn Pérez
Jennifer Higdon
Composer-in-Residence
Visit during our sunny winter months in 2022 when TDSF celebrates its 10th Anniversary of bringing world-renowned voices to Tucson George Hanson, Festival Coordinator Julia Pernet, Artistic Director Jeannette Jung Segel, President Artists subject to change.
TucsonSongFest.org
DIANNE REEVES
TDSF CELEBRATES “Women of Song” in 2022
T
he Tucson Desert Song Festival (TDSF) is an annual gathering of great voices, great music making and beautiful winter weather in Southern Arizona. Beginning in January of each year, TDSF brings to Tucson the finest singers from the most important stages of the world to work with Tucson’s outstanding performing arts organizations. Over the years, Festival artists have encompassed every vocal genre, from opera to Broadway to jazz. Renée Fleming, Bobby McFerrin, Jamie Barton, Bernadette Peters, Matthew Polenzani and Nadine Sierra, along with more than one hundred others, have graced the stages of Tucson with our outstanding performing arts partners. Commissioned works of composers including Richard Danielpour and Jake Heggie are features of each festival.
premiere of a new song cycle by composer Jennifer Higdon, written for Sasha Cooke, highlights an all-star cast: Susan Graham in recital, Dianne Reeves in concert with the Tucson Jazz Festival, Ailyn Pérez in recital, Susanna Phillips with True Concord Voices and Orchestra, and Anne Hampton Callaway with Ballet Tucson. Nicole Cabell sings Mahler’s Fourth with the Tucson Symphony, and Vanessa Vasquez portrays Micäela in Carmen with the Arizona Opera. Join us in Tucson for an extraordinary festival of singing! Between concerts, you can enjoy the beautiful high-desert winter temperatures and recreation from mountain climbing to golf. For more information, visit TucsonSongFest.org or call (888) 546-3305.
Beginning in January 2022, the Festival’s tenth season celebrates Women of Song. The world ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
33
JAN 14 - 23, 2022 Downtown Jazz Fiesta Dave Stryker & Eric Alexander with the TJF String Orchestra
JAN 14 — Fox Tucson Theatre
Featuring Kendrick Scott TJF Artist in Residence with the UA Fred Fox Jazz Ensemble
JAN 20 — Downtown
Annual FREE Festival on MLK Day! Sponsor: GEICO
TJF Jazz Jam A spontaneous combustion of red-hot jazz all afternoon! •National & Local Artists •Multiple Sets on Multiple Stages
JAN 15 — Hotel Congress
Spanish Harlem Orchestra Opening Artists Sergio Mendoza & Quetzal Guerrero
JAN 20 — Rialto Theatre
Jon Batiste
JAN 21 Centennial Hall
"Petite Fleur"Adonis Rose & New Orleans Jazz Orchestra's NOJO 7 featuring Cyrille Aimée
Presented Together With
Guest Artist: TJI Ellington Big Band
Herb Alpert & Lani Hall
JAN 15 — Fox Tucson Theatre
Sponsor: Swaim Associates LTD Architects AIA
Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin JAN 16 Fox Tucson Theatre
Sponsor: Rusing, Lopez & Lizardi, PLLC
Tickets & More Information:
TucsonJazzFestival.org
JAN 22 Rialto Theatre Co-Produced with
Sponsor: Kinghorn Law
Dianne Reeves
JAN 23 Leo Rich Theatre
Sponsor: Tucson Desert Song Festival
LEE RITENOUR
JON BATISTE HEADLINES The HSL Properties Jazz Festival
T
he HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival returns for its 8th season with a sensational line up of jazz greats from around the world. The two-week event features eight main-stage performances at six different venues and the annual Downtown Tucson Fiesta, an event that is free to the public on MLK Day. Always seeking exciting ways to broaden awareness and inspire a love of jazz to more audiences, this year’s Festival includes fabulous new experiences like a pre-show event “Arpeggio,” where jazz lovers will enjoy an evening of music, food and drinks on the three levels of The Citizen Hotel, the TJF Jazz Jam at Hotel Congress, and An Afternoon of Jazz on the Hotel Congress Plaza.
jazz guitarist Dave Stryker and Eric Alexander on the tenor sax, and will continue to hit high notes with iconic artists like Herb Alpert, Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin, Petite Fleur, Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s Nojo 7 featuring Cyrille Aimée. A taste of world music rhythms are in store from the Spanish Harlem Orchestra with special guest Sergio Mendoza & Friends, plus women taking center stage include notable voices like Lani Hall and Dianne Reeves, and up-and-coming French jazz star Cyrille Amilėe. The excitement and artists will continue to grow, so get your tickets early! For more information, visit TucsonJazzFestival.org or call (520) 762-6260.
Headliner Jon Batiste sets the bar high for this year’s talent. The bandleader of The Late Show with Steven Colbert, Batiste is one of the hottest tickets in the US today. A “not to be missed artist,” his recent Austin City Limits performance was said to be one of the most amazing shows ever seen on that stage. The outstanding TJF String Orchestra kicks off the Festival in a double-header concert with ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
35
TUCSON REGIONAL BALLET WELCOMES New Artistic Director
N
ationally recognized for performing soloist and principal roles with American Ballet Theatre, Tucson native and TRB alumna Brittany De Grofft has returned home to lead Tucson Regional Ballet as artistic director. The season under De Grofft’s leadership begins with TRB’s beloved tradition, A Southwest Nutcracker, December 4 & 5, 2021. Set in Tucson in the 1880s, this reimagining of the full-length traditional Nutcracker gives the Christmas favorite a southwestern twist, with rattlesnakes, chili peppers, and coyotes! TRB once again partners with the Tucson Symphony
Orchestra for live accompaniment, creating a memorable holiday experience for the whole family. In the spring, TRB presents excerpts from Don Quixote chosen and staged by De Grofft and the popular children’s ballet The Princess & The Pea, as well as selected contemporary and classical works. This exciting blend of classical repertoire and fresh new choreography takes place April 23 & 24, 2022. For more information, visit tucsonregionalballet.org or call (520) 886-1222.
M
usic Director José Luis Gomez leads an Opening Night program with violinist Lara St. John playing Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. The concert starts with the Festive Overture by the dean of African-American composers, William Grant Still, and concludes with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. Gomez says, “Opening Night is a special occasion for celebration after this enforced absence, an evening that will be pure joy, so I’ve chosen one of the most glorious symphonies to crown this evening together with our audience.” Maestro Gomez has programmed music written by women composers Gabriela Lena Frank, Florence Price (the first female African-American composer of classical music) and Tucson native Claire Thai, an alumna of TSO’s Young Composers Project who will perform the world premiere of her harp concerto. Audiences will hear the music of several composers of African
SCHEHERAZADE, JOYCE YANG | PHOTO BY KT KIM
TSO PERFORMS Season of Youth and Diversity
descent, including Mozart contemporary Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Duke Ellington, Fela Sowande and Ulysses Kay, who was born in Tucson and studied at the University of Arizona. Popular programming includes a screening of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, with every note of John Williams’ score played by the orchestra. TSO will also perform music of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Bach, Berlioz and Mendelssohn. Guest artists include cellist Amit Peled, bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann, Metropolitan Opera star Nicole Cabell, violinist Paul Huang, TSO concertmaster Lauren Roth and Joyce Yang in the TSO-co-commissioned Piano Concerto by Jonathan Leshnoff. For more information, visit tucsonsymphony.org or call (520) 882-8585.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
37
TUCSON VISUAL ARTS: A feast for the senses
P
hotography, painting, glass sculpture and augmented reality technology are among the forms of visual art works on exhibit at Tucson’s museums and educational settings indoors and out. The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona will celebrate its reopening with an open house on Sept. 23, featuring pop-up installations, art-making, food and music. Photojournalism 20/20: A Think Tank for an Unimaginable Present is on exhibit through the end of the year. It turns the lens on the explosive events of 2020, a time of pandemicinduced physical confinement and suffering, worldwide protests for racial justice and tumultuous national politics. Not far away, the University of Arizona Museum of Art exhibition The Art of Food explores food as a powerful subject in contemporary art. It opens Oct. 24, a free Community Day. Artists include Andy Warhol, Enrique Chagoya and Lorna Simpson, curated from collections of Jordan D. Schnitzel and His
Family Foundation. The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block will feature three major exhibitions this season: Olivier Mosset; Patrick Martinez: Look What You Created, and Brad Kahlhamer: 11:59 to Tucson. Tucson Botanical Garden is stretching the boundaries with Seeing the Invisible, featuring works by international artists utilizing augmented reality technology. The September premiere forges links between gardens around the world. The mid-century modern era is on display at Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, showcasing Atomic Miniatures: Michael Yurkovic’s Modern Musings. Also on exhibit is Addams Family Mini Mansion, based on the spooky and fun 1960s TV series. Creative DIY folks can head to Sonoran Glass School to mold glowing glass into their own works of art. The glass arts education facility offers classes and experiences for all ages under the guidance of the school’s artists.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY offers a variety of exhibitions and programs The Center for Creative Photography is excited to present its 2021-2022 season of exhibitions and programs. This year’s calendar kicks off with Photojournalism 20/20: A Think Tank for an Unimaginable Present, an in-progress think tank that combines photographs, lectures, essays, and journals drawn from the Center’s collection, open through January 1, 2022. The Center’s reopening will be celebrated with an Open House event on September 23, 2021, featuring extended evening hours, pop-up installations, artmaking, food, music, and more - part of the Arizona Arts Signature Series. Beginning January 22, 2022, the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) and the Laboratory
of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) will stage installations together that follow historical, cultural, and scientific narratives inspired by trees. With more than 100 images and objects assembled from CCP and LTRR’s collections, the installations will create a multilayered experience with photography and dendrochronology (the study of annual rings in trees). Both exhibitions are activations in the brand-new Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery and will be complemented by a series of programs and events- stay tuned to the Center’s website for more to come! For more information, visit ccp.arizona.edu or call (520) 621-7968.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
39
AT
C I M e r u t a i n i m
Michael Yurkovic’s Modern Musings OCTOBER 14, 2021 — JANUARY 16, 2022
Tucson, Arizona 40
s
1:12 SCALE 1950S DINER IN PROGRESS | MICHAEL YURKOVIC
THE MINI TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES’ 2021 Exhibition Season Will Really Knock Your Socks Off!
E
xpect no less from a museum with the words ‘time machine’ in their name. This season they’ll take you back to the mid-century modern era with their featured exhibition: Atomic Miniatures: Michael Yurkovic’s Modern Musings and the creepy and the kooky spotlight exhibition; Ara Bentley’s Addams Family Mini Mansion. Atomic Miniatures will showcase miniatures made by acclaimed Chicago-based artist Michael Yurkovic, who is known for his midcentury leanings. Debuting with this exhibition will be the museum’s commission of a half-inch scale replica of the historic Tucson Ball-Paylore House. Built in 1952, this Tucson landmark is nationally recognized as an iconic example of mid-century and passive solar architecture. An exhibition of small-scale mid-century neon signs on loan from Ignite Sign Museum will make this presentation the bee’s knees.
Mysterious and spooky, Texan Ara Bentley’s 1:12 scale Addams Family Mini Mansion is based on both the 1960s television series and the Addams Family movies from the 1990s. Ten years in the making, the plethora of details in this mini mansion make it altogether ooky. But it’s not all about mid-century. The museum will also be taking us back to ancient civilizations with Of Biblical Proportion: Legendary Rulers of Mesopotamia– a spotlight exhibit of quarter-lifesize Historical Figures by George Stuart. You’ll also want to cast an eyeball towards Jean LeRoy’s Buzzard Creek Ghost Town and Tori West’s Medley of Miniatures in Creative Paperclay. And, as is tradition, this holiday season the museum transforms into a Wee Winter Wonderland with their presentation of Holidays Around the World and Through Time. You’ll want to burn rubber and make it to the museum of miniatures to catch these shows. If you’re hip, purchase your tickets online to save $1 per ticket– or become a museum member to really take it all in. Visit theminitimemachine.org or call (520) 881-0606 for more information.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
41
COLLABORATIVE ARTS & MAKER SPACE CATALYST is a first-of-its-kind innovative space in Southern Arizona where culture, collaboration and community intersect.
CATALYST - TUCSON MALL
4500 N Oracle Road, Suite 110, Tucson, AZ 85705. Lower level, between Dillard's and Sears.
TEACHING KITCHEN ARTS & CRAFTS STUDIO MUSIC & DIGITAL ARTS
SPECIAL EVENT VENUE PERFORMING ARTS SPACE COMMUNITY ROOM
EVENT VENUE & CREATIVE SPACE Combining over 14,000 square feet of flexible learning, performance, gathering and maker spaces which highlight over 30 disciplines. CATALYST is a space for all ages and forms of creativity to flourish.
CATALYST ARTS & MAKER SPACE EVENTS & PROGRAMS Onsite Meeting with Remote Meeting Capacity Small-Group Weddings Birthdays, Showers, Anniversaries Special Dinners, Events, and Group Outings Private Functions Summer Camps Classes & Instruction
Movie Screenings Live Concerts Coworking Music recitals Board Meeting Space Performing Arts Rehearsals Film and Music Production Space
The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance (SAACA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation, preservation, and advancement of the Arts. Our work strengthens the bonds between people, place, and purpose through collaborative, arts-driven experiences.
LEARN MORE AT WWW.SAACA.ORG
LOOK (AFTER KIRK MCCOY) | PATRICK MARTINEZ
THE 2021/22 SEASON at TMA
T
ucson Museum of Art and Historic Block (TMA) announces a new season featuring three major exhibitions: Olivier Mosset, Patrick Martinez: Look What You Created, and Brad Kahlhamer: 11:59 to Tucson. Permanent collection galleries have been refreshed to include highlights from TMA’s collection in areas including Modern, Contemporary and Latin American art, Art of the American West, Asian art and Indigenous Arts. Internationally renowned Swiss-born, Tucsonbased artist Olivier Mosset is known for his large-scale monochrome and shaped paintings that challenge the notion of modernist authority and painting as a historical object. Through works from the 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s, the artist engages viewers’ expectations about art and how they encounter it. Olivier Mosset runs October 14 - February 27.
In his first solo museum exhibition in the American Southwest, Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Martinez examines subjects including communities of color, discrimination, displacement, and accountability. His mixed media works invoke conversations about equity, empathy, humanity, and connection. Patrick Martinez: Look What You Created runs November 4 - April 24. Born to an Indigenous mother of unknown tribal origin and a white father, Brad Kahlhamer was adopted by a German-American family and to this day still does not know his full background. His works blend childhood memories, fantasies about the Southwest, and experiences as an illustrator and musician to express the urban experience and a longing for his Indigenous roots. Brad Kahlhamer: 11:59 to Tucson runs March 17 - September 25, 2022. Spend an afternoon in historic downtown Tucson with exhibitions, a one-of-a-kind Museum Store, and Café a la C’Art. Become a member today to enjoy all 2021/22 exhibitions and the permanent collection for just $5/month. For more information, visit TucsonMuseumofArt.org or call (520) 624-2333.
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
43
Spark Your Creative Fire! Sonoran Glass School inspires people of all ages and abilities to discover the wonder of glass arts
Join us for classes, make-your-own experiences, team building, parties, events...and more!
633 W. 18th St. 520-884-7814 www.sonoranglass.org
SPARK YOUR Creative Fire!
E
nter Sonoran Glass School, and you are quickly seduced by the radiance of glowing, molten glass. The school’s artists, instructors, and students harness this unique raw material, taming the flame, to produce one-of-a-kind works of art. This Tucson treasure is unique in the desert Southwest: a full-service, nonprofit glass arts education facility that offers classes and experiences for all ages and abilities. You can experience the wonder of glass art first-hand through a variety of “Make-Your-
Owns.” These engaging activities are perfect for families, birthday or holiday parties, as well as corporate or team-building events! Sonoran Glass School artists are also available to help you design and craft unique awards, recognition pieces, or memorial keepsakes. For more information, visit sonoranglass.org or call (520) 884-7814.
UNPRECEDENTED AUGMENTED REALITY EXHIBITION, Seeing the Invisible, to premiere at Tucson Botanical Gardens
T
he most ambitious exhibition to date of contemporary artworks created with augmented reality (AR) technology will premiere in September at Tucson Botanical Gardens. Seeing the Invisible features works by more than a dozen international artists such as Ai Weiwei, Isaac Julien CBE, and Sigalit Landau. Forging new links between botanical gardens located around the globe, the exhibition fosters collaboration between institutions, artists, and audiences, highlighting the power of art to connect people worldwide.
“Not only does augmented reality offer our guests an opportunity to engage with the Gardens in a fundamentally different way, but it allows us to share works of art we might not otherwise have ever been able to show,” says Michelle Conklin, Tucson Botanical Gardens Executive Director. “This is a rare chance for us to give visitors a unique, immersive fine arts experience in a public garden setting.” For more information, visit TucsonBotanical.org or call (520) 326-9686.
AN AUGMENTED REALITY CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION The JERUSALEM BOTANICAL GARDENSIn Partership With OUTSET CONTEMPORARY ART FUND
COMING SEPTEMBER 2021 TUCSONBOTANICAL.ORG/EVENTS
(520)326.9686
2150 N ALVERNON WAY ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
45
FOOD. It’s what’s on the canvas at UAMA. ANDY WARHOL, BANANA (II.10), EDITION OF APPROX. 300, CIRCA 1966, TWO SCREENPRINTS ON STYRENE AND LAMINATED PLASTIC, 23 3/4 X 53 3/4 IN., COLLECTION OF THE JORDAN SCHNITZER FAMILY FOUNDATION | IMAGE: STRODE PHOTOGRAPHIC
F
itting for a UNESCO City of Gastronomy, the University of Arizona Museum of Art exhibition The Art of Food offers something for every palette. The show features modern and contemporary works by artists including Andy Warhol, Enrique Chagoya and Lorna Simpson curated from the renowned collections of
Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. It explores why food is such a powerful and persistent subject in art throughout time, and its timely themes leave visitors with something to chew on. For more information, visit artmuseum.arizona.edu or call (520) 624-7567.
Sherrie Wolf, Histrionic Beauty Suite: Cherries/Mountain, edition 1/30, 2015, Photogravure and hand colored etching, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer Image: Aaron Wessling Photography
The University of Arizona Museum of Art October 24, 2021 – March 20, 2022
ON the
calendar
MAHLER'S VISION OF PARADISE, NICOLE CABELL | PHOTO BY DEVON CA SS
2021 - 22 ARTS SEASON PREVIEW GUIDE | TUCSON | VOLUME 7
2021–2022
T H E AT E R | C O N C E R T S | M U S E U M S | C A L E N DA R Calendar dates current as of August 2021
PRESENTED BY: ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
47
ADDAMS FAMILY DETAIL
SEPTEMBER
11
1 thru 1/2/22
DesertView Performing Arts Center
Tapestries from Egypt
Tucson Botanical Gardens Legacy Gallery 2 thru 10/8 Bloomsday
Live Theatre Workshop 9 - 26
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
The Rogue Theatre 11 thru 1/2/22
Botanical Images: Abstract, Pop, and Surreal Photograph Works on Paper by Victoria Westover
Tucson Botanical Gardens Porter Hall Gallery 48
STUDIO 54 The Ultimate Disco Concert!
14
Speaker Series with Dr. Carissa DiCindio and Dr. Yumi Sharai | Creating an Art Exhibition through Shared Experiences of Food: Artists with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and University Students
University of Arizona Museum of Art 17
Virtual Art Trivia Happy Hour Fall Themed!
University of Arizona Museum of Art
18
Just for Kids Brass
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center 23
CCP Open House
Center for Creative Photography 24 - 26
Opening Night Tchaikovsky Fourth
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Tucson Music Hall 25
MIRAGE - A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
DesertView Performing Arts Center
Seeing the Invisible Augmented Reality Exhibition
Tucson Botanical Gardens In the Garden 25 thru 10/16
My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend
Arizona Theatre Company The Temple of Music and Art 28 thru 10/31
Jean LeRoy’s Buzzard Creek Ghost Town
The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures
OCTOBER 2 thru 11/30/21
Ignite the Garden by Jude Cook
Tucson Botanical Gardens Back Porch Gallery
2 - 10
10 - 24
Sonoran Glass School
School of Theatre, Film & Television Tornabene Theatre
Pumpkin Fiesta
2&3
Brahms and Mozart
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Catalina Foothills H.S. 5 thru 10/30/22
Ara Bentley’s Addams Family Mini Mansion
The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures 9
Into the Woods
14 thru 11/20 Dry Powder
Live Theatre Workshop 14 thru 1/16
Atomic Miniatures: Michael Yurkovic’s Modern Musings
The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures
VOYAGER - The Rockin’ Tribute To JOURNEY!
14 thru 1/16
9 & 10
15 - 17
DesertView Performing Arts Center Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks (Chamber)
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center
Mini Mid-Century Neon Signs
The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures Mozart Jupiter
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Tucson Music Hall
SILENT SKY | PHOTO BY TIM FULLER
25 thru 8/31/22
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
49
CELEBRATE FIFT Y YEARS
OF BRINGING YOU CLOSER
TION FROM THE SERAGLIO | AIDA | The Copper A CHENIER | ARIADNE AUF NAXOS Queen Film* ONA LADY | BEAUTY & THE BEAST | MCDOUGALL GODUNOV | CANDIDE | CARMEN | RED SERIES El Milagro NCITA Y EL SOLDADO | CAVALLERIA del Recuerdo ANA | CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD | (The Miracle of Remembering) AN TUTTE | CRUZAR LA CARA DE LA 11 & 12, 2021 OF THE DAS RHEINGOLD | DER RING DES NIBELUNGENDEC | DIALOGUES MAUS | DIE WALKÜRE | DON CARLO | DON GIOVANNI DON PASQU TEMPLE|OF MUSIC ANDEN ARTEL AMAZ N | FALSTAFF | FAUST | FELLOW TRAVELERS | FLORENCIA CHI | GIOVANNA D’ARCO (CONCERT) | GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG | HANS ULES VS VAMPIRES | HMS PINAFORE | IL TABARRO | IL TROVATORE | IT S | LA BOHÈME | LA CENERENTOLA | LA DONNA DEL LAGO (CONCER * The Copper Queen O | LA | LA SONNAMBULA | LA TRAVIATA | LAKMÉ | LOH Film isGIOCONDA a digital presentation and RMOOR | MACBETH | MADAMA BUTTERFLY | MANON | MANON LES not part of our S AIRES | ticket NABUCCO | OF MICE AND MEN | ORFEO ED EURIDICE | O in-theater packages. E DAME | PIRATES OF PENZANCE | RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE | RIG ULIET | RUSALKA | SALOME | SEMELE | SHINING BROW | SIEGFRIED | NAH | SWEENEY TODD | THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE | THE BARBER OF UL | THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT | THE ELIXIR OF LOVE | THE FLY GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST | THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES | THE M ARRIAGE OF FIGARO | THE MERRY WIDOW | THE MIKADO | THE PEARL ENNY OPERA | TOSCA | TURANDOT | UN BALLO IN MASCHERA | ABD IO | AIDA | ANDREA CHENIER | ARIADNE AUF NAXOS | ARIZONA LA | BORIS GODUNOV | CANDIDE | CARMEN | CARMENCITA Y EL SOLDA Carmen ANA | CHARLIE PARKER’S YARDBIRD | COSÌ FAN TUTTE | CRUZAR LA C FEB 6, 2022 RHEINGOLD 5|&DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN | DIALOGUES OF THE CARM FLEDERMAUS | DIE WALKÜRE | DON CARLO | A Little Night Music DON PASQUALE | EUGENE ONEGIN | FALSTAF MAR 12 & 13, 2022 TRAVELERS | FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS | G | GIOVANNA D’ARCO (CONCERT) | GÖTTERDÄ Così fan tutte HANSEL AND GRETEL | HERCULES VS VAMPIRES APR 16 & 17, 2022 | IL TABARRO | IL TROVATORE | ITALIAN GIRL IN BOHÈME | LA CENERENTOLA | LA DONNA DE TUCSON MUSIC HALL MAIN STAGE | LA FORZA DEL DESTINO | LA GIOCONDA | L SERIES | LA TRAVIATA | LAKMÉ | LOHENGRIN | LUCIA
2 0 21/2 2 SEASON
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
azopera.org | 520.293.4336
16
Verdi and Grieg
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra DesertView Performing Arts Center 16 thru 1/16/22
The Art of Paying Attention: Fierce & Fragile by Beth Surdut
Tucson Botanical Gardens Friends House Gallery 17
Verdi and Grieg
ARTS EXPRESS
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 22 - 31
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Arts Express Theater 23
December ‘63 A Tribute To Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
DesertView Performing Arts Center 23
Just for Kids Strings
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center 28
Community Day/Opening Day: The Art of Food
University of Arizona Museum of Art 30 & 31
Beethoven Septet for Winds (Chamber)
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center OCTOBER
The Copper Queen Film
Arizona Opera Arizona Opera OnDemand
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
51
TOGETHER AGAIN! 3 M USI CAL S , 3 PL AYS .
JO IN US . T I CK E T S ON S ALE N OW.
ATC.ORG / 833-ATC-SE AT ATC AT THE TEMPLE OF MUSIC AND ART 330 S. SCOTT AVE. TUCSON
S E A S O N SPONSOR: I. MICHAEL & BETH KASSER
NOVEMBER
6 thru 12/4
10
4 - 21
Arizona Theatre Company The Temple of Music and Art
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall
The Rogue Theatre 6
THE SHAGWELLS Legends of The British Invasion
DesertView Performing Arts Center 6&7
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Catalina Foothills H.S.
Alton Brown Live: Beyond the Eats
7 - 21
12 - 14
School of Theatre, Film & Television Tornabene Theatre
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Tucson Music Hall
Three Sisters
Scheherazade
13
9
Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn
Speaker Series with Artist Malia Jensen
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra DesertView Performing Arts Center
University of Arizona Museum of Art
14
Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn EL MILAGRO DEL RECUERD O | PHOTO BY LYNN LANE
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 17
ARETHA - The Queen of Soul
DesertView Performing Arts Center 17 thru 12/5 Hamilton
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall 18
Virtual Art Trivia happy Hour Food Themed!
University of Arizona Museum of Art 20
Just for Kids Percussion
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center 23 thru 1/9
Holidays Around the World and Through Time
The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures 27
ARIZONA HIGHWAYMEN
DesertView Performing Arts Center
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
53
HADESTOWN | PHOTO BY MATTHEW MURPHY
1
Speaker Series with Dr. Matt Mars and Dr. Hope Schau | Reclaiming the Story: Visual Narratives and the Value Propositions of Local FoodsC12
University of Arizona Art Museum
3-5
4
School of Theatre, Film & Television Tornabene Theatre
DesertView Performing Arts Center
Everybody
3 - 19
4&5
Live Theatre Workshop
Tucson Regional Ballet TCC Music Hall
3 - 19
4 - 11
Arts Express Theater
Sonoran Glass School
Rocking Around the Christmas Tree: A Christmas Sing-A-Long
HAMILTON | PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS
White Christmas
54
3 INTERNATIONAL TENORS, The Christmas Concert!
A Southwest Nutcracker
Winter Wonderland
ARETHA | CHARIT Y LOCKHART
DECEMBER
8
Telling Queer Food Stories: A Workshop
University of Arizona Museum of Art 9
Virtual Art Trivia Happy Hour Winter Holidays Themed
University of Arizona Art Museum 10 - 12
The Thrill of Tchaikovsky
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Tucson Music Hall 11
SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS! Starring Jose Figueroa JR and Melissa McLaughlin
DesertView Performing Arts Center 11 & 12
El Milagro del Recuerdo
Arizona Opera Temple of Music and Art 18 & 19
Messiah, Carols and Songs
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Catalina Foothills H.S. 56
19
Closing Day: Acts of Love and Community: Sharing Experiences with Food and Art
University of Arizona Museum of Art
JANUARY 4 thru 5/9
Watercolors of Donna Helms
Tucson Botanical Gardens Back Porch Gallery 4 thru 5/30
All Nature by David Conklin
Tucson Botanical Gardens Legacy Gallery 5-9
My Fair Lady
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall 6 - 23
7 thru 5/29
Nature in Glass & Steel by Alex Heveri
Tucson Botanical Gardens In the Garden 8&9
Mendelssohn’s Radiance
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Catalina Foothills H.S 15 thru 2/5
Women in Jeopardy!
Arizona Theatre Company The Temple of Music and Art 15 & 16
Wagner for Brass (Chamber)
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center 15
The Simon & Garfunkel Story
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
16 thru 2/20
6 thru 2/20
19
The Rogue Theatre Rumors
Live Theatre Workshop
Take A Hike
Live Theatre Workshop A Discussion with Jennifer Higdon: Creative Process
Tucson Desert Song Festival Holsclaw Hall, UA Campus
ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN
23
Concert: Dianne Reeves
Tucson Jazz Festival & TDSF Leo Rich Theater 26 thru 2/6 Wicked
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall 28
Beyond the Alps
AZ Early Music & TDSF Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church 28 - 30
Ballet by Callaway: with Ann Hampton
Ballet Tucson & TDSF Leo Rich Theater 28 - 30 20
Speaker Series with Dr. Paul Ivey
University of Arizona Museum of Art 20
World Premiere: Sasha Cooke sings Jennifer Higdon's New Composition Accompanied by Pianist Myra Huang
Mahler's Vision of Paradise: Symphony No. 4 with Nicole Cabell, Soprano
Tucson Symphony Orchestra with TDSF Tucson Music Hall 22 thru 7/23
Trees Stir in their Leaves
Center for Creative Photography
True Concord & TDSF 29
Heaven and Earth: Music of J.S. Bach
AZ Early Music & TDSF Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church 29
Just for Kids Piano and Strings
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center
MOZART SYMPHONY NO. 40, JOSÉ LUIS GOMEZ PHOTO BY KAUPO KIKKAS
Fred Fox School of Music & TDSF Holsclaw Hall, UA Campus
21 & 23
From Silenced to Singing: with Susanna Phillips
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
57
TUCSON MUS
The 2021/2022 Exhibition Season at TMA is presented by Jim and Fran Allen, Jon and Linda Ender, James and Louise Glasser, Connie Hillman Family Foundation, and I. Michael and Beth Kasser. Membership starts at $5 per month. Join today for unlimited free admission and Museum Store discounts!
www.TucsonMuseumofArt.org · 520-624-2333
SEUM OF ART 2021/22 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Olivier Mosset OCTOBER 14, 2021 – FEBRUARY 27, 2022 Large-scale modular paintings and both constructed and ice sculptures that engage viewers’ expectations about art and how they encounter it.
Patrick Martinez: Look What You Created. NOVEMBER 4, 2021 – APRIL 24, 2022 Mixed-media works that invoke conversations about equity, empathy, humanity and connection.
Brad Kahlhamer: 11:59 to Tucson MARCH 17 – SEPTEMBER 25, 2022 A Tucson-born artist seeks to connect to a spiritual and communal sense of belonging as well as to a culture that has eluded him in the past.
Francisco Toledo: Paper Fables MAY 5 – AUGUST 21, 2022 Visual representations of fables—humorous, dark, ironic and erotic—by beloved Oaxacan artist Francisco Toledo.
SHOP
DINE
The Museum Store
Café a la C’Art
Shop jewelry, books, cards, accessories, home goods, locally-made art and craft items, one-of-a-kind gifts, art supplies, puzzles, toys and games.
Serving brunch and lunch Wednesday–Friday, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday–Sunday, 8 a.m.–3 p.m. (subject to change—check the website for current schedule)
Installation view, Bernard and Jeanette Schmidt Gallery of Latin American Folk Art. Photo by Julius Schlosburg.
NO JUSTICE. NO LOVE. | PATRICK MARTINEZ
30
5&6
AZ Early Music & TDSF Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Arizona Opera Tucson Music Hall
Handel's Apollo and Dafne
FEBRUARY 1
Recital: Susanna Phillips, soprano
True Concord & TDSF Holsclaw Hall, UA Campus 5
Beethoven, Borodin and talented youth
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra DesertView Performing Arts Center 5&6
Lauren Roth Plays Stravinsky
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Catalina Foothills H.S. 60
Carmen
6
Beethoven, Borodin and talented youth
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 10
Speaker Series with Artist Analia Saban
University of Arizona Museum of Art
11 & 12
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back—In Concert
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Catalina Foothills H.S. 17 thru 3/19
The Kreutzer Sonata
Live Theatre Workshop 18 - 20
Duke Ellington Harlem
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Tucson Music Hall 18 - 27 Oliver
Arts Express Theater
11
23 - 27
Arizona Opera & TDSF Holsclaw Hall, UA Campus
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall
Recital: Susan Graham, mezzo
The Band’s Visit
José Luis Gomez, Music Director
Return to a World of Joy. Live Music. The Musicians. And You. OPENING NIGHT TCHAIKOVSKY FOURTH September 24 – 26, 2021* BRAHMS AND MOZART October 2 – 3, 2021^ MOZART JUPITER Tickets 85 October 15 – 17, 2021* (520) 882-85 MOZART SYMPHONY NO. 40 November 6 – 7, 2021^ SCHEHERAZADE November 12 – 14, 2021* THE THRILL OF TCHAIKOVSKY December 10 – 12, 2021* MESSIAH, CAROLS AND SONGS December 18 – 19, 2021* MENDELSSOHN’S RADIANCE January 8 – 9, 2022^
(520) 882-8585 tucsonsymphony.org
MAHLER’S VISION OF PARADISE January 21 – 23, 2022* LAUREN ROTH PLAYS STRAVINSKY February 5 – 6, 2022^ STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK—IN CONCERT Film With Music Performed Live February 11 – 12, 2022* DUKE ELLINGTON HARLEM February 18 – 20, 2022* MOZART AND PROKOFIEV March 5 – 6, 2022+ THE SPLENDOR OF BRAHMS March 18 – 20, 2022* MENDELSSOHN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM April 8 – 10, 2022* * Tucson Music Hall ^ Catalina Foothills High School + Berger Performing Arts Center
24
Speaker Series with Dr. Shana Klein
University of Arizona Museum of Art 24 thru 3/13
Christopher Chen’s Passage
The Rogue Theatre 26
Just for Kids Winds
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center 26 thru 3/19
Nina Simone: Four Women
Arizona Theatre Company with TDSF The Temple of Music and Art 27 thru 3/20
Living Dead in Denmark
School of Theatre, Film & Television Tornabene Theatre
MARCH 5&6
Mozart and Prokofiev
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Berger Performing Arts Center
6 thru 4/10
18 - 20
Live Theatre Workshop
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall
Tooth Fairies in Training
12
Flying High with Holland, Stravinsky, Gershwin and talented youth
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra with Tucson Flute Club DesertView Performing Arts Center 12 & 13
Jersey Boys
18 - 20
The Splendor of Brahms
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Tucson Music Hall 20
Closing Day: The Art of Food
University of Arizona Art Museum
Tchaikovsky Souvenir of Florence (Chamber)
22 - 27
12 & 13
24 thru 4/30
Arizona Opera Tucson Music Hall
Live Theatre Workshop
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center A Little Night Music
13
Flying High with Holland, Stravinsky, Gershwin and talented youth
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra with Tucson Flute Club St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
Tootsie
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall Sylvia
25 thru 4/3 Rent
Arts Express Theater
APRIL 8 - 10
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Tucson Music Hall 9 - 30
Justice
Arizona Theatre Company The Temple of Music and Art 10 - 24
High Fidelity
School of Theatre, Film & Television TFTV Outdoor Stage 12 - 17
Hadestown
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall 16 & 17
Così fan tutte
Arizona Opera Tucson Music Hall
62
ONE SLIGHT HITCH | LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP
COSÌ FAN TUTTE | ARIZONA OPERA . PHOTO BY TIM TRUMBLE
22 thru 5/1 Titanic
Arts Express Theater 23 & 24
Excerpts from Don Quixote
Tucson Regional Ballet TCC Leo Rich Theater 23 & 24
Mozart and Brahms (Chamber)
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center 28 thru 5/15
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
The Rogue Theatre 29 thru 5/1
New Directions Festival
School of Theatre, Film & Television Tornabene Theatre 30
Dvořák and Moszkowski
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra DesertView Performing Arts Center
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM | FOX THEATRE
ON STAGE 2021–2022 |
63
1
Dvořák and Moszkowski
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 5 thru 6/4
Body Awareness
Live Theatre Workshop
TO OTSIE | PHOTO BY MATTHEW MURPHY
MAY
19 - 22
Young Composers Festival
Tucson Symphony Orchestra Leo Rich Theater 24 - 29
Come From Away
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall
JUNE 3-5
3rd Annual Young Playwrights of Tucson
Live Theatre Workshop 4 - 25
how to make an American Son
Arizona Theatre Company The Temple of Music and Art 9 thru 7/9
Be my Baby
Live Theatre Workshop
JULY 15 - 31
Robin Hood and His Merry Men: The Musical
Live Theatre Workshop 19 - 24
Pretty Woman
Broadway in Tucson Centennial Hall
GREATEST GERONIMO | PHOTO BY BRAD KAHLHAMER
64
TUCSON UNIFIED AWARDED FOR THE SEVENTH YEAR
JOIN OUR AWARD-WINNING PROGRAMS & SCHOOLS Both In-Person Classes and Tucson Unified Virtual Academy Available
TUSD1.ORG/ENROLL
THE 2021/2022 SEASON AT CENTENNIAL HALL
It’s our BIGGEST season ever! broadwayintucson.com
ALTON BROWN: LIVE! “BEYOND THE EATS” • NOVEMBER 10, 2021 HAMILTON • NOVEMBER 17-DECEMBER 5, 2021 MY FAIR LADY • JANUARY 5-9, 2022 THE SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY • JANUARY 15, 2022 WICKED • JANUARY 26-FEBRUARY 6, 2022 THE BAND’S VISIT • FEBRUARY 23-27, 2022 JERSEY BOYS • MARCH 18-20 2022 TOOTSIE • MARCH 22-27, 2022 HADESTOWN • APRIL 12-17, 2022 COME FROM AWAY • MAY 24-29, 2022 PRETTY WOMAN THE MUSICAL • JULY 19-24, 2022
PHOTO: Workers Chorus in the Original Broadway Cast of HADESTOWN (© Matthew Murphy)
