This brilliant new comedy looks at the fast-receding ideal that we should all be able to live next door to each other, whatever our background, age, and politics.
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A Haunting We Will Go – Lunch Time Dance Theater
A modern dance performance full of mystery and suspense, just in time for Halloween … featuring the critically acclaimed, “The Return of Dracula” plus premiere works by CDE Assistant Artistic Director, Diane McNeal Hunt; Nicole Olson and Instinct Dancecorps.
Read MoreA Haunting We Will Go
A modern dance performance full of mystery and suspense, just in time for Halloween … featuring the critically acclaimed, “The Return of Dracula.”
Read MoreThe Trial of the Catonsville Nine
Based on the trial transcripts, the play delves into the moral and religious motives of the nine, and why “the burning of paper not children.”
Read MoreCS Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert
Produced by Fellowship for Performing Arts
Center Stage
October 24, 2018 – October 25, 2018
Using Lewis’ own words, McLean inhabits Lewis, taking audiences on his rigorous journey from hard-boiled atheist to “the most reluctant convert in all England.” Discover how the Hound of Heaven pursued Lewis relentlessly until he “gave in” … only to become the most influential Christian writer of the 20th century.
Read MoreThe Girl Who Swallowed A Cactus
When school is out, there’s nothing to do and the desert sun beats down hot, Sheila and her friends find themselves in search of something – anything – interesting to explore. Filled with magical realism and surprises at every turn, this funny story of friendship and imagination will bring the desert landscape to life.
Read MoreHerberger Theater Festival of the Arts – Free Admission
Celebrate the arts in our community with a free event featuring performances, dance, food, live music, children’s activities, pet adoptions and more!
Read More#TheBounceBack – Lunch Time Theater
At times funny, but always engaging, #TheBounceBack explores black men in various contexts who refused to let their setback have the final word.
Read MoreCharlie Parker’s Yardbird
Infused with the spirit of jazz, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird delves into the personal purgatory of the great American saxophonist. Told through a series of interconnected scenes following his death, Parker attempts to compose his final masterpiece while examining the demons that propelled his genius.
Read MoreErma Bombeck: At Wit’s End
A loving tribute to Ohio wife and mother turned longtime Arizona resident who made herself into a national superstar as a best-selling author and syndicated journalist lauded for opening up the secret world of the mother and housewife.
Read MoreLet It Glo – Lunch Time Theater
Who doesn’t love fruitcake, family get-togethers and a disco chipmunk album? Not to mention the joy of organizing the annual holiday photo. 16 Bars presents a musical blitz of the season favorites. Toss a wreath on the door, untangle those lights, and Let It Glo!
Read MoreFrances Smith Cohen’s Snow Queen
Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s magical wintery fairy tale and set to Prokofiev’s lush score, Center Dance Ensemble brings the wicked “Snow Queen” to life! Families will delight in the mystical world of sprites, gypsies and ice maidens, while young Gerda seeks to rescue Kai from the evil crystal palace.
Read MoreFrances Smith Cohen’s Snow Queen – Lunch Time Dance Theater
Families will delight in the mystical world of sprites, gypsies and ice maidens, while young Gerda seeks to rescue Kai from the evil crystal palace. A cherished holiday classic and Valley favorite!
Read MoreElla Enchanted: The Musical
Not every princess needs rescuing. Based on the Newbury-honor book, this Cinderella twist follows Ella, a princess who is given the “gift” of obedience at birth. As she grows up, the strong-willed little girl must defeat her evil stepmother, a hungry ogre, and this troublesome curse to find her own voice and live happily ever after.
Read MoreMy Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m in Therapy
Steve Solomon’s smash hit comedy starring Peter Fogel, is inspired by Steve’s hilarious family and all the people in his life whose sole purpose is to drive him into therapy… and they succeeded! One part lasagna, one part kreplach, and two parts Prozac, you don’t have to be Italian or Jewish to love this show. All you need is to know what it feels like to leave a family dinner with heartburn and a headache!
Read MoreThe Music Man
Meredith Willson’s six-time Tony Award®-winning musical comedy has been entertaining audiences since 1957, regaling them with the story of Harold Hill – the double-shuffle, two-bit, thimble-rigger con artist who rolls into River City station one hot Iowa summer.
Read MoreInternational Man of Mystery: Licensed to Bloviate – Lunch Time Theater
In the one-man show, audiences will be regaled with stories, songs, poems, and maybe even dances, from around the world. It’s cheaper than Epcot, and you don’t need a passport. There might be some German stuff, too.
Read MoreHostage
Based on the true events of 1979 when students in Tehran took over the American Embassy. The play imagines what happened when mother and son were reunited, and the consequences the mother faced when she returned home and was suddenly suspect in her own country.
Read MoreThe Secret Comedy of Women – Girls Only®
An original comedy that celebrates the honor, truth, humor and silliness of being female. With a two-woman cast and audiences full of raucous, laughing ladies, the show is a unique examination of all things girly.
Read MoreA Company of Warriors – Lunch Time Theater
A show about the under explored subject of African American women who participated in World War II, who helped reshape the landscape of gender, race and social attitudes during a time of upheaval and change.
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