Hair 1968’s Hair was a groundbreaking Broadway musical with a killer soundtrack, all about hippies and love and drugs and stopping the war and resisting the Man, man. Seriously. And hair, of course. Those days might be the last time the elements of a musical drenched our culture so thoroughly…
The Book of Mormon is finally almost nearly just about here. Tempe’s ASU Gammage Auditorium will host a touring production of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-skewering hit from October 20 through November 8. Tickets to the show will be available starting at 10 a.m. on August 3 through Ticketmaster…
The Midnight Society Stuff from the early to mid-1990s is now, by definition, vintage. And since trends are cyclical, and you are old — but pop culture nostalgia is still pretty fun — downtown cinema FilmBar and local film collective Theater 13 occasionally team up to host a little thing…
New Times’ guide to five artsy things to do this week is here. Emerging Arts Leaders Happy Hour Tired of yelling into the void? Want to discuss your opinions of the art scene freely and with people who actually give a crap about what you have to say? You just…
Kaori Takamura Local artist Kaori Takamura has something to say and she’s using attention-grabbing, colorful design to do it. Using textiles and fabric patterning mixed with embroidery and meticulous digital art, “express[es] women’s tangled and intricate everyday feelings,” she writes in her artist’s statement. An award-winning graphic designer and mixed…
Arizona Theatre Company announced on Monday, June 29, that its 2015 National Latino Playwrighting Award and goes to Matthew Paul Olmos for his work the living’life of the daughter mira. Olmos will also receive a $1,000 prize. The NPLA was founded 20 years ago by Arizona Theatre Company artistic director David Ira…
“Hidden Histories in Latin American Art” When an artist is creating, he or she often includes unintentional content – images or themes that reveal information about the artist’s psyche or environment, or events and movements that will, over time, provide historical context. In the case of the works in Phoenix…
If for you “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” is less a Daft Punk song and more of a personal life motto, then we wouldn’t be surprised if you fancy yourself something of an Olympian. Fortunately for those who aren’t training to totally crush it during Rio 2016, New Times and Tempe Marketplace…
Slow Roll In the not-so distant past, Phoenix has been decried as one of the nation’s least bicycle friendly cities. But, as one freewheelin’ poet observed, the times they are a changin’. With a Grid Bike Share system now in place, Phoenicians can expect to see more events like Slow…
New Summer Shorts Body-shaming glossy magazines question whether your legs are “ready” for new summer shorts. Screw that. Your legs, along with your brain and your funny bone, are super-ready for New Summer Shorts 2015, Theatre Artists Studio’s eighth annual compilation of short plays by Studio members. This year’s lineup…
Jen Kirkman would like to talk about death now, please. The comedian recently released her first-ever Netflix special, titled I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine). It opens with a sketch featuring a woman, an old friend of Jen’s, bringing her young son backstage. What ensues is a perfectly…
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry It’s been about 50 years since the second wave of feminism caught fire in the United States. The film She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry delves into this movement, specifically looking at the women who worked to create equal rights for women from 1966 to 1971…
Phoenix Fashion Week introduced its 2015 class of emerging designers to a packed house at Livewire on June 11. The 13 fashion designers will compete over the coming four months for a chance to win a prize package valued at $10,000. Four of this year’s designers are based in Arizona,…
Angels in America Angels in America is one of the best plays ever. Nearly Naked Theatre is a knockout theater company. We could just say, “Go,” and leave room for more ads on this page. But, for a constellation of reasons we’ll leave unexplored for now, we’ll divulge some more…
Juan Felipe Herrera will be the next U.S. Poet Laureate, The Library of Congress announced on Tuesday, June 10. He is the first Latino poet appointed to the position. “This is a mega-honor for me, for my family and my parents who came up north before and after the Mexican…
Phoenix Fashion Week fans can expect to see a few familiar faces on Thursday, June 11, as the Valley’s premier fashion event announces its 2015 class of 13 emerging designers at Livewire in Scottsdale. For the first time ever, Fashion Week is allowing past emerging designer contenders to re-enter the…
Cory Baker left her position as director of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on June 3. Scottsdale Cultural Council public relations manager Bill Thompson confirmed the news in a June 5 e-mail to New Times. The Scottsdale Cultural Council oversees Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of…
Back in January, New Times issued a survey. We wanted to take the pulse of Phoenix’s arts scene — to find out what was happening and what people wanted to see happen in the near future. Curators, artists, performers, art lovers, and assorted movers and shakers responded with their opinions,…
“LAYERS” Go ahead and shake off the shame of being called out for tracing drawings in your elementary school days. There are plenty of pros who use stencils to create works of art, and two of them just so happen to have pieces on display at MonOrchid’s Shade Gallery this…
“Super Heroes” Move over Avengers — the real “Super Heroes” are here. The newest Heard Museum art exhibition offers a Native American view point on what makes a super hero. These views, mostly drawings and works on paper, include animals, humans and magical beings who fight “evil” in everyday life,…
Phoenix Comicon 2015 The best thing about Phoenix Comicon, the mammoth gathering of comic book, gaming, and entertainment aficianados, is how everyone from cautiously curious folks to hardcore geeks keep an eye out for Wookiees, Klingons, and gender-swapped superheroes to stamp in their games of mental Comicon bingo. Keep your…
“One-of-a-Kind” In a world of Dubsmash videos, #nomakeup selfies, and misattributed inspirational quotes pinned and re-pinned to infinity, originality isn’t so easily encountered. But the photographic works by artists including David Emitt Adams and Betty Hahn found in Phoenix Art Museum’s “One-of-a-Kind” are not so easily duplicated. By virtue of…
