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  Update: Hamilton Returning to ASU Gammage for 2020-2021; 2019-2020 Lineup Set

  March 12 at 4:08 p.m.

  Another season of Broadway crowd-pleasers.

• Arizona Opera Promises Bold, But Arizona Lady Is a Bore

  Monday, October 19, 2015 at 8 a.m.

  As Arizona Opera opened its three-day Phoenix run for an operetta titled Arizona Lady at Symphony Hall on Friday night, the audience was clearly excited by the prospect of hearing a story set in the Southwest. Simply the sight of the set, complete with cactus and a distant mesa, was enough to...

• Arizona Opera and Poet Laureate Alberto Rios Collaborate on Arizona Lady

  Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 7 a.m.

  Arizona Opera's falls season opens with a collaboration that sets a high bar. Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos recently collaborated with Arizona Opera for its production of Arizona Lady, an operetta set in Tucson in 1925. Think gold rush, rodeos, and horse thieves. It’s opera on the lighter side, with plenty...

• The Finer Points of The Taste Test Get Lost in Black Theatre Troupe's Production

  Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 8 a.m.

  Frank Higgins' The Taste Test is a smartly written, talky play about power struggle and betrayal. Its snappy dialogue and brittle undertones require a strong cast and tight direction to sell finer points and to keep the story moving. Unfortunately, the Black Theatre Troupe production does not offer these amenities...

• Orange Theatre's Blood Wedding Gallops Through Completed Version at ASU Tempe's Lyceum

  Saturday, July 26, 2014 at 10:30 a.m.

  The setup: Orange Theatre's industrially flavored, iconoclastic mounting of Lorca's Blood Wedding is similar in many ways to the roughly two-thirds complete work-in-progress version we got to see last winter. The company develops a play in several periods spanning about a year, and viewing multiple iterations reveals some of the...

• Downtown Phoenix's Space 55 Presents a Different 7 Minutes in Heaven Each Saturday in June

  Friday, June 20, 2014 at 11 a.m.

  The setup: Space 55's Late Night Series is a thing we've visited and written about before. It's alternative performance for (eventually) every taste, something we both enjoy and pine for more of. This month, Saturday nights at 9 p.m. bring us 7 Minutes in Heaven, a thing that link kind...