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Jan. 24- April 11
8 p.m., Jan. 23; 2:30 p.m. (Matinee); 7 p.m.
(show), Jan. 24
2 p.m., Jan. 11
8 p.m. Feb. 13, 14, 20, 21; 2 p.m. Feb. 14, 15, 21, 22; 7 p.m. Feb.
19
7:30 p.m., March 2 4 p.m., Feb. 28; 1 & 4 p.m., March 1 & 7; 1 p.m., March 8 7:30 p.m., Feb. 28 8 p.m., Feb. 27 7 p.m., March 6
7:30 p.m., April 16-18; 2 p.m., April 19
7-8:30 p.m., April 22
7-8:30 p.m., April 29
April 25-July 3
4 p.m., April 19; 1 & 4 p.m., April 25, 26, May 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17;
2 p.m., May 23 & 24
7:30 p.m., April 17 Join poet Sharon Suzuki-Martinez for a reading and discussion in celebration of National Poetry Month. Her poetry has appeared in “Columbia Poetry Review,” “Snow Monkey,” “Left-Facing Bird,” “Tryst,” “Free Verse,” “Spooky Boyfriend” and other journals. Free.
7-8:30 p.m., April 8
7:30 p.m., April
8
7:30 p.m., April 7 7-8:30 p.m., April 1
7 p.m., March 31
4 p.m., March 14; 1 & 4 p.m., March 15, 21, 22, 28, 29,
April 4; 1 p.m., April 5
6:30 p.m., Feb. 26
7:30
p.m. Feb. 23
7:30 p.m., Feb. 25
10:30-11:30
a.m.,
Feb.
17
7 p.m., Jan. 31
7 p.m., Jan. 28
8 p.m.,
Feb. 8
10 a.m. & 2 p.m., Jan. 24, 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21; 1 p.m. Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, 15
Through Jan. 10
Jewish Comedian Marc Weiner performs in an evening to
benefit Jewish Arizonans on Campus, a Jewish outreach organization. Weiner
created the popular children's show Weinerville and currently provides the
voices for many characters on the hit show Dora the Explorer.
From innovative functional pottery that offers an aesthetic experience along with dining pleasure to challenging sculptural objects addressing issues important to contemporary society, this exhibition showcases the emerging talent of ceramic artists in a 10-state region.
A magical mystery
tour of the booming metropolis of Busytown brings to the stage Lowly Worm,
Huckle Cat, Farmer Pig, Grocer Cat and many, many more Scarry favorites.
Recommended for ages three and older.
This long awaited dance production takes
audiences through the inner workings of adult relationships. The show is
rated for mature audiences who witness women in their conversations of
anticipation, desire, nonsense,
decision...their “Conversations of Lust.”
This exciting afternoon will feature live musical
performances by the Rural Street Klezmer Band, Todd Herzog and Shalom Feivel
& Rocky Mounatin Jewgrass. Funds from the event will go
to restore This play combines the hilarity of slapstick with the creative possibilities of paper sculpture, exploring storytelling as two comic characters get caught in a conflict between ‘analog’ and ‘digital’ culture. Recommended for ages five and older.
This Black History Month tribute performance is a
poetic journey through the Black experience – from slavery to Hiphop –
featuring more than 40 works of noted African-American poets, authors,
activists and songwriters. This event is exhilarating, raw, cultural,
historical, informative and inspiring.
Join the nation's premier Native American poet as Tempe concludes its 2009 poetry series. Ortiz has won awards such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas (1993) and has taught at numerous institutions. Free. Newly created and familiar contemporary work from regional Latina/o and Native American artists will be on display in this specially curated exhibition. Sheilah Britton is an award-winning writer,
producer and director who began her career while studying television and
film at
Join us on an epic quest to save Fantastica – and
imagination itself – from the dreaded Nothing with an unlikely hero and his
Luck Dragon. Recommended for ages five and older.
Music under the Stars celebrates youth participation in arts and music. High
School- and College-level music groups and organizations partner and are
afforded the opportunity to perform publically at the 7-8:30 p.m., April 15
A continuation of the collaborative community project Glass Blocks/Steel
Bars with videographers Nancy Happel and Tom Eldridge, poet-writer Roberta
Burnett, Attorney-Judge-Public Defender-Consultant, Laurie Herman and Ann
Ludwig, choreographer and dancers.
Buy Tickets
Join Moderator Catherine Hammond for a reading and discussion in celebration of National Poetry Month with The Bilingual Review Press. The press publishes literary works, scholarship and art books by or about United States Hispanics under the name Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe. Free. The Tempe Youth Wind Symphony is an honor group comprised of young musicians from Tempe middle schools and mentors from area high schools, who are chosen to provide fellowship and modeling. The group rehearses once a week for six weeks and presents a public performance. Free. The TSWE will perform an evening of outstanding wind music based on dances from around the world. Tim McAllister, Professor of Saxophone at Arizona State University, will be the featured soloist.
Guest soloist
Hiscox teaches creative writing & all-about English at Arizona State University. She was recently Poet-in-Residence at St. Chad's College of Durham University, England. Jones earned an MFA in Creative Writing from ASU, where he was the Teresa A. Wilhoit fellow for 2005-2006. Free.
This Spanish-infused
musical gem, adapted from the 1936 classic, celebrates individuality as
Ferdinand refuses to go along with the crowd. Recommended for ages five
and older.
The TSWE will perform
great music from the “silver screen,” including the music of John Williams
and Jerry Goldsmith. Selections will include music written specifically for
the movies and music that was adapted for the screen
The At
Best Derivative Film Premier is as
much an industry "who's who" as it is an unveiling, the premier of Arizona's
own Feature Farce Comedy,
At Best
Derivative" has been anxiously
anticipated by indie film fanatics and the AZ film community.
Barrett, the Honors College at ASU, presents the John J. Rhodes Lecture: "The New Defining Moment: Perspectives on the Presidency and Democracy," delivered by Jonathan Alter, Newsweek Senior Editor. Free. Reservations required by Feb. 25. Reserve Tickets Join soloists Katherine McLin, violinist, and Thomas Landschoot, cellist, as they perform Johannes Brahms' Concerto for Violin & Cello in A minor, Op. 48.The symphony also will perform Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky/Maurice Ravel. Free. Tickets will be available at the door. AWS will tour band music through the 20th century. Featuring soloist Patrick Sheridan, tuba, and the Glendale College Community Band. AWS plays a wide variety of music, including marches, Broadway and film tunes, overtures, dances, contemporary symphonic wind music and more. Buy Tickets Take an aging, exceedingly vain actor, his very rich wife and a double-dealing, double-loving agent, plunk them down in an elegant New York duplex, add dialogue crackling with wit and laughs, and you have the basic elements for an evening of pure, sophisticated entertainment.
Tempe Young Life presents a night of comedy and laughs. There will be a live
auction in this hilarious fundraiser. All are welcome. Recommended for all
ages 5 and older.
Living Legend
Mose Allison performs a fusion of rustic blues and jazz, embellished with profound and often humorous lyrics. Among those who have covered his songs
are: Van Morrison, John Mayall, The Who, The Clash, Eric Clapton, the
Yardbirds, Elvis Costello and Bonnie Raitt The exhibit celebrates the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Tempe Center for the Arts. The exhibition features works on paper, art made of paper and artists inspired by paper, a tradition for first anniversaries. Free.
  
Outsiders Within: A Latina/o and Native
Childsplay: "The Neverending Story" Theater Music Under the Stars Amphitheater A Ludwig Dance Theatre: Festival 2009 Studio
Arizona Wind Symphony: "A Night on the Town" Theater
Childsplay: "Ferdinand the Bull" Studio Friar's Lantern Entertainment: At Best Derivative: Premiere Theater
Jonathan Alter: Newsweek Senior Editor
Theater
Childsplay: "Rock, Paper, Scissors" Studio BlackPoet Ventures: EchoVerses: Black Poets Yesterday Today Theater The Phoenix Symphony Theater Arizona Wind Symphony: "Evolution" Theater
Friends of Tempe Symphony Orchestra Theater Tempe Little Theatre: "Murder Among Friends" Studio
Comedy Night with Marc Weiner Studio, Lobby, Patio LakeShore Jazz series: Mose Allison Lakeside
NCECA: 2009 Regional Student Juried Ceramic Exhibition Gallery Automatic Response Jazz Company: "Conversations of Lust" Studio AZ Jewish Historical Society: Rhythm & Jews: a Music Festival Theater Exhibition: TCA Biennial - Paper Gallery
 
Contact
700 W. Rio Salado Parkway • Tempe, AZ 85281 • Box Office: 480/350-2TCA (2822) • Facsimile: 480/350-2828 Event booking:480/350-2814 • Education/Tours: 480/350-5679 • Media: 480/350-2880 • General: 480-350-2829
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