Resident Companies

The Herberger Theater Center is proud to be home to four resident companies.


 

 

Arizona Opera

Arizona Opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music—cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home. The McDougall Arizona Opera RED Series – symbolizing the passion and heart of opera – is presented in more intimate venues: the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix and The Temple of Music and Art in Tucson. These venues provide audiences with an opportunity to experience the art form in an incredibly visceral way, with storytelling that resonates with the vibrancy of the year-round community that Arizona Opera serves.


 

Childsplay

Charlotte's Web (2018)

Founded in 1977, Childsplay is a nationally and internationally respected theatre company that performs for children and families in Arizona and beyond. Childsplay believes that young people deserve to experience theatre of the highest artistic quality, a standard of excellence that has shaped the organization for over four decades for more than 5 million audience members. It’s mission is “to create theatre so strikingly original in form, content or both that it instills in young people an enduring awe, love and respect for the medium, thus preserving imagination and wonder, those hallmarks of childhood that are the key to the future.”


 

iTheatre Collaborative

Three Tall Women (2019)

iTheatre Collaborative produces distinctive, visceral work that provokes and challenges its audiences. In addition to its resident home at the Herberger, iTheatre productions have been invited to perform across the Valley and across the country. iTheatre’s work has been seen and acclaimed nationally at the National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C., at the Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, AK, at the Black Arts Movement Festival in Austin, TX, locally, at Theater Works in Peoria, at Scottsdale Community College, and the West Campus of A.S.U.