TUCSON, AZ – UA’s Arizona Repertory Theatre brings the brilliantly crafted work of John Patrick Shanley to the stage in this compelling story that challenges audiences to question their own sense of certainty.

Doubt, A Parable is set in the Bronx in 1964 and centers on a characteristically mistrusting nun, Sister Aloysius.  She is certain that Father Flynn has molested Donald Muller, the school’s first “negro” student, soon after his arrival to the school.  The story is further complicated by the younger and more tender-hearted, Sister James, who wants to believe another story.

“Shanley has constructed an air-tight evening that exposes our current culture of debate and forces us to meet it eye to eye,” explained Hank Stratton, UA Theatre Professor and director.  Stratton went on to say that Shanley “gives us a chance to confront our own ideas of certainty, humanity, assumptions, predators and prey, and what happens when we are forced to simultaneously defend and confront a changing cultural landscape.”

Doubt, A Parable earned honors as a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play in 2005.  Shanley is known for his impressive list of plays including recent works, Outside Mullingar, Prodigal Son and The Portuguese Kid.  Shanley also received an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for the film, Moonstruck.

See Tomorrow’s Stars Today at Arizona Repertory Theatre explore fraught issues of race, sexuality, tradition versus modernity, and gender that continue to resonate today.

(Visit here for show summary, press kit, ticket information and more.)

Dates & Times:

Previews:  Feb 4 at 1:30pm, Feb 5 at 7:30pm

Evenings:  Feb 7-10, Feb 15-17, Feb 23-24 at 7:30pm

Matinees:  Feb 11, Feb 17-18, Feb 25 at 1:30pm

Place: Marroney Theatre on the UA campus located near the SE corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.

Cost/Admission: Regular $28, Senior/UA Employee/Military $26, Student $15, Preview $17, Alumni discount $6 off qualifying rate | Deeper discounts apply to groups (other than students) numbering 10+. UA Student Rush 30 minutes before each performance is $10 cash only for available seats (must show CatCard).

Ticket Information: UA Fine Arts Box Office, (520) 621-1162

12p-4p | M-F | theatre.arizona.edu | tftv.arizona.edu | tickets.arizona.edu

Parking:  Park Avenue Garage, located on Park Avenue just north of Speedway Blvd. Pre-paid parking is available for weekday evening performances. Saturday and Sunday there is no charge to park.  If you have special needs for parking, please call UA Parking & Transportation Services at (520) 621-3550.

Media Contact: Julie Vance, (520) 626-2686, julievance@email.arizona.edu

Production Sponsor: The Jacqueline Anne Morris Memorial Foundation

TUCSON, AZ – UA’s Arizona Repertory Theatre is getting ready to mount perhaps the greatest American play of the 20^th Century this November: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.

The story follows the life of a desperate Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, who seeks shelter at her sister’s New Orleans apartment following the loss of their ancestral home. Her brother-in-law, a blue-collar worker named Stanley, confronts her with brutality and uses sexual threat like a weapon.

As the most omnipresent work turns 70 this year, several performances and tributes have kept Williams and his powerful play relevant today.

UA Theatre professor, Hank Stratton, is directing the legendary piece and said that it is so much more than a surface power struggle; a story of vanity and lust. “It confronts race, class, status, sexual conformity, and American mythology,” Stratton said. At its heart, Stratton sees the story as a conflict between two sisters…their history, love, betrayal and the man between them, who ultimately destroys their relationship.

“The play – through its verdant, yet muscular language and peerless poetic structure – provides a ‘dark march’ toward a confrontation of a romantic America; one of gentility replaced by the heavy hand of industrial idealism, where ‘every man is king,’ said Stratton. He also said he intends to be faithful to the blueprint of Williams’ master work, while shining a streak of shadowy light on what makes the characters of A Streetcar Named Desire immediate, timeless and undeniably relevant. Stratton said, “The stagnant air of summer in the French Quarter, the shadows that conceal and reveal, and the lilting jazz from the bar down the street will frame the unrelenting tension of this elegiac mood.”

Visit here for show summary, press kit, ticket information and more.

Dates & Times:

Previews: Nov 5 at 1:30pm, Nov 6 at 7:30pm

Evenings: Nov 8-11, Nov 16-18, Dec 1-2 at 7:30pm

Matinees: Nov 12, Nov 18-19, Dec 3 at 1:30pm

Place: Tornabene Theatre on the UA campus located near the SE corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.

Cost/Admission: Regular $28 Senior/UA Employee/Military $26, Student $15, Preview $17, Alumni discount $6 off qualifying rate | Deeper discounts apply to groups (other than students) numbering 10+. UA Student Rush 30 minutes before each performance is $10 cash only for available seats (must show CatCard).

Ticket Information: UA Fine Arts Box Office, (520) 621-1162 12p-4p | M-F | theatre.arizona.edu | tftv.arizona.edu | tickets.arizona.edu

Parking: Park Avenue Garage, located on Park Avenue just north of Speedway Blvd. Pre-paid parking is available for weekday evening performances. Saturday and Sunday there is no charge to park. If you have special needs for parking, please call UA Parking & Transportation Services at (520) 621-3550.

Media Contact: Lisa Pierce, (520) 626-2686, lisapierce@email.arizona.edu

Production Sponsor: Gootter & Associates    

TUCSON, AZ – From a cartoon strip first created by Charles Addams in the 1938 issue of The New Yorker, to a TV series that lasted two seasons in the mid ‘60s, a modern musical is born: The Addams Family – A New Musical, about the macabre, but kooky and funny family. And Arizona Repertory Theatre at the University of Arizona is producing this musical, directed by Danny Gurwin, who made his Arizona Repertory Theatre directing debut with the musical, Nine, and has since directed other hits here such as The Fantasticks, Oklahoma, and the 2015 MAC Award-winning, Cabaret, also winning Best Director for that same musical.

“I know audiences both young and old will enjoy this hilarious and heartwarming story with all of their favorite, altogether ooky Addams Family characters,” Gurwin said.

It’s no accident that this musical opens mid-October and helps usher in the Halloween season, either. Gurwin said he thinks they’ve created a fun, family Halloween spectacle.

“And with our very own (Professor of Practice) Monte Ralstin as ‘Uncle Fester’ taking the stage for the first time in 15 years,” Gurwin added, “it should prove to be an unforgettable run here at the UA!”

His is not a singular sentiment, as many alumni were inspired to chatter on social media about their mentor in Musical Theatre, Monte Ralstin, taking the stage and mentioned with excitement how they would have to return to Tucson to see him.

Audience members can expect to laugh a lot at this Addams Family production, and enjoy a grown-up Wednesday Addams, who is engaged to wed a “normal” young man, but wishes her father to keep that secret from her mother. What could go wrong? With a melodious score and ghoulish special effects, this musical is sure to please. (Visit theatre.arizona.edu for show summary, press kit, ticket information and more.)

Dates & Times:

Previews: Oct 15 at 1:30pm, Oct 16 at 7:30pm

Evenings: Oct 18 – 21, Oct 26 – 28, Nov 3 – 4 at 7:30pm

Matinees: Oct 22, Oct 28 – Oct 29, Nov 5 at 1:30pm

Place: Marroney Theatre on the UA campus located near the SE

corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.

Cost/Admission: Regular $31, Senior/UA Employee/Military $29, Student $15, Preview $20, Alumni discount $6 off qualifying rate | Deeper discounts apply to groups (other than students) numbering 10+. UA Student Rush 30 minutes before each performance is $10 cash only for available seats (must show CatCard).

Ticket Information: UA Fine Arts Box Office, (520) 621-1162

12p-4p | M-F | theatre.arizona.edu | tftv.arizona.edu | tickets.arizona.edu

Parking: Park Avenue Garage, located on Park Avenue just north of Speedway Blvd. Pre-paid parking is available for weekday evening performances. Saturday and Sunday there is no charge to park. If you have special needs for parking, please call UA Parking & Transportation Services at (520) 621-3550.

Media Contact: Lisa Pierce, (520) 626-2686, lisapierce@email.arizona.edu |

Production Sponsor: Gregory Knopf                                         

            TUCSON, AZ – “Tigers Be Still resides in that wonderful sweet spot between the heartbreakingly beautiful and the side-splittingly hilarious,” said UA Arizona Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director and Theatre Professor, Brent Gibbs, who is also the director of Tigers Be Still. “It has the ability to make audiences laugh and cry at the same time, which is no small feat.”

Author Kim Rosenstock is a contemporary playwright, who also wrote the musical Fly By Night and is a writer on the hit FOX show, New Girl. Many critics say her work captures the poetry of pain and is refreshingly honest. As a result, her characters are terrifically relatable and her stories, enjoyable.

“Plays that are written today are a reflection of our society and hold a key to understanding our society’s time and social milieu for future generations,” said Lisa Pierce, director of marketing and development for the UA School of Theatre, Film & Television. She added that experiencing new work by award-winning playwrights should be as important to us as experiencing the classic plays of history.

Once Gibbs started directing Tigers Be Still, his feelings about the play began to morph into something even deeper than before. “I started out referring to this show as a very funny play about depression,” Gibbs said, “but I have come to realize that it is that, but it is also a love letter to family and to hope.”

The New York Times called Tigers Be Still “piercing, ferocious and devastatingly hilarious.”

See Tomorrow’s Stars Today at Arizona Repertory Theatre in Kim Rosenstock’s Tigers Be Still.

(Visit theatre.arizona.edu for show summary, press kit, ticket information and more.)

Dates & Times:

Previews: Sep 17 at 1:30pm, Sep 18 at 7:30pm

Evenings: Sep 20 – 23, Sep 28 – 30, Oct 6 – 7 at 7:30pm

Matinees: Sep 24, Sep 30 – Oct 1, Oct 8 at 1:30pm

Place: Tornabene Theatre on the UA campus located near the SE corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.

Cost/Admission: Regular $28, Senior/UA Employee/Military $26, Student $15, Preview $17, Alumni discount $6 off qualifying rate | Deeper discounts apply to groups (other than students) numbering 10+. UA Student Rush 30 minutes before each performance is $10 cash only for available seats (must show CatCard).

Ticket Information: UA Fine Arts Box Office, (520) 621-1162

12p-4p | M-F | theatre.arizona.edu | tftv.arizona.edu | tickets.arizona.edu

Parking: Park Avenue Garage, located on Park Avenue just north of Speedway Blvd. Pre-paid parking is available for weekday evening performances. Saturday and Sunday there is no charge to park. If you have special needs for parking, please call UA Parking & Transportation Services at (520) 621-3550.

Media Contact: Lisa Pierce, (520) 626-2686, lisapierce@email.arizona.edu

Production Sponsor: Tucson University Park Hotel            

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Tucson, AZ – A powerful and timely new play, Mother of Exiles, is about to open through the University of Arizona’s Studio Series, a program that provides theatre-making opportunities for Bachelor of Arts students, while offering audiences thought-provoking theatre. In Mother of Exiles, an undercover Latina returns to her hometown on the Arizona/Mexican border to teach the next generation about what it means to be free, only to be handed a gun by her superiors. She finds herself and her students held hostage by the politics of fear. This new play demonstrates how work in the Studio Series packs a punch.

Elaine Romero is not only an Assistant UA Theatre Professor. She is an award-winning Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and is Playwright-in-Residence at Arizona Theatre Company. Mother of Exiles is the second installment of her social justice border trilogy, which includes Wetback and Title IX. Mother of Exiles received a Saturday Series reading at Chicago Dramatists and was written on commission for Cornell University. Romero wrote the play shortly after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Romero said, “There had been rumblings in the state government in Arizona about arming teachers. I ran with that premise. When I write, I often think about how the outside world pressurizes the inside world, about how outward societal impressions begin to warp our own view of what we know to be true. Magda loves her students, but when she begins to see them through the eyes of others, she becomes estranged from them.”

Guest director, John Muszynski, who said he’s thrilled to have been invited back after directing last year’s Tribes for the Studio Series, knows the value of a great playwright. “I have worked in the theatre for many years and have come to understand that actors and directors come and go, but a good playwright is the lasting artist in the art for theatre,” Muszynski said. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work alongside a gifted playwright like Elaine. She has such vision and passion for her work and knows how to craft a play to affect an audience. That is awe inspiring.”

UA Theatre students will be presented with another rare learning experience since Tanya Palmer is the guest dramaturg for this production of Mother of Exiles. From the world-renowned Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Palmer is the Director of New Play Development where she coordinates New Stages, the theatre’s new play program. Palmer has served as the production dramaturg on a number of plays, including the world premieres of Vigils by Noah Haidle, Magnolia by Regina Taylor, The Long Red Road by Brett C. Leonard and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ruined by Lynn Nottage. While on campus before Mother of Exiles opens, Palmer will continue her work with the creative team, visit two undergraduate Bachelor of Arts classes – dramaturgy and playwriting – and hold a salon discussion with the Master of Fine Arts Generative Dramaturgy students.

Dates & Times: Evenings: Apr 20 – 22 at 8pm | Matinee: Apr 23 at 2pm

Place: Harold Dixon Directing Studio, Drama Bldg, Rm #116, on UA campus (SE corner of Speedway Blvd/Park)

Cost/Admission: All seats $7 | Ticket Information: UA Fine Arts Box Office | (520) 621-1162 or tickets.arizona.edu

Parking: Park Avenue Garage, located on Park Avenue just north of Speedway Blvd. Pre-paid parking is available for weekday evening performances. Saturday and Sunday there is no charge to park. If you have special needs for parking, please call UA Parking & Transportation Services at (520) 621-3550.

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Tucson, Arizona – The UA School of Theatre, Film & Television is proud to announce its fifth Undergraduate Research Symposium, Thursday, April 13, 2017 – Friday, April 14, 2017. This annual event presents original research by our Bachelor of Arts students in a panel format and invites scholars from outside The University of Arizona to share their own work and methods with the UA community in two, keynote speeches.  Students, faculty and the public are invited to this symposium for BA Film Producing/Studies & Theatre

Studies students from Thursday, April 13, 2017 – Friday, April 14, 2017. On April 13th, two keynote guest speakers will kick off the event with a pair of special talks. Dr. Alison McKee, Associate Professor of Radio/Film/Television at San José State University, will give a talk titled,  “‘I’ve Kissed You Through Two Centuries’: Love and History Among the Film Archives,” followed by Dr. John Cameron, Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Iowa, who will speak on “Repeating History: My Altered Approach to Socially Conscious Theatre.” This special event will be held at 4:00pm in the Center for Creative Photography auditorium, and is free and open to all in the university and community.

On April 14^th, Theatre, Film & Television juniors & seniors in our BA programs will present their own research to the public for the first time, with Drs. Cameron & McKee serving as respondents. The daylong event, featuring research on topics from Amazon Prime Video to “The Life & Times of Sophie Treadwell,” begins at 10:00am in the Silver & Sage Room inside Old Main.

Schedule of Events

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Center for Creative Photography

4:00-5:30pm Keynote Addresses

Friday, April 14, 2017

Old Main, Silver & Sage Room

10:00-11:15am Screen Studies 1

11:15-12:30pm Theatre & Culture 1

12:30-1:30pm Lunch with panelists and speakers

1:30-2:45pm Theatre & Culture 2

2:45-4:00pm Screen Studies 2

Parking: Second Street Garage, located West of Cherry Avenue, on the South side of Second Street.

If you have special needs for parking, please call UA Parking & Transportation Services at (520) 621-3550.

Media Contact: Lisa Pierce, (520) 626-2686, lisapierce@email.arizona.edu

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TUCSON, AZ – As director of Arizona Repertory Theatre’s production of EVITA, Danny Gurwin said audience members should be moved when they experience the fresh, innovative approach that he has in store.

“I hope it will be a sophisticated, powerful, political, and very romantic production,” Gurwin said.

Most people who have seen this production elsewhere will likely come to the theatre with a preconceived notion of what their experience will be like, but Gurwin has a history for making older productions seem fresh again – without changing the integrity of the story – which is hard to finesse.

Experience passion and seduction in this seven-time, Tony Award-winning musical story about Eva Perón, who made a meteoric climb from the slums of Argentina to her role as beloved First Lady at the age of 27.

(Visit theatre.arizona.edu for show summary and more.)

Dates & Times:

Previews:  Apr 9 at 1:30pm, Apr 10 at 7:30pm

Evenings:  Apr 12 – 15, Apr 20 – 22, Apr 28 – 29 at 7:30pm

Matinees:  Apr 16, Apr 22 – 23, Apr 30 at 1:30pm

Place: Tornabene Theatre on the UA campus located near the SE corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.

Cost/Admission: Regular $31, Senior/UA Employee/Military $29, Student $15, Preview $20, Alumni discount $6 off qualifying rate | Deeper discounts apply to groups (other than students) numbering 10+. UA Student Rush 30 minutes before each performance is $10 cash only for available seats (must show CatCard).

Ticket Information: UA Fine Arts Box Office, (520) 621-1162

12p-4p | M-F | theatre.arizona.edu or tickets.arizona.edu

Parking:  Park Avenue Garage, located on Park Avenue just north of Speedway Blvd. Pre-paid parking is available for weekday evening performances. Saturday and Sunday there is no charge to park.  If you have special needs for parking, please call UA Parking & Transportation Services at (520) 621-3550.

Media Contact: Lisa Pierce, (520) 626-2686, lisapierce@email.arizona.edu

Production Sponsor: The Jacqueline Anne Morris Memorial Foundation

Season Sponsor: Chapman Automotive     

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Tucson, Arizona – The University of Arizona’s Arizona Repertory Theatre will kick off its 2017-18 season on September 17, 2017. New subscriptions will be available July 10, 2017, and single tickets go on sale August 1, 2017 through the Fine Arts Box Office at 520.621.1162, or online at theatre.arizona.edu.

“We start with TIGERS BE STILL, a sweet comedy about two families who find that happiness is not as impossible as it seems,” said Artistic Director and Associate Professor, Brent Gibbs. “Then, just in time for Halloween, we will meet THE ADDAM’S FAMILY in all their ghoulish glory. Next, we present Tennessee Williams’ American classic, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. We are very proud to follow that up with John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, DOUBT. Next is Shakespeare’s timeless classic, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE and we close out our season with the beloved musical, THE PAJAMA GAME. We hope you will join us for this exciting season and come out to see the stars of tomorrow…”      

Tigers Be Still by Kim Rosenstock

September 17 – October 8, 2017

Sponsored by: Tucson University Park Hotel

The Addams Family Musical

Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice | Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa

Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams

October 15 – November 5, 2017

Sponsored by: Gregory Knopf

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

November 5 – December 3, 2017

Sponsor: Gootter & Associates

Doubt, A Parable by John Patrick Shanley

February 4 – 25, 2018

Sponsor: The Jacqueline Anne Morris Memorial Foundation

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

March 12 – April 1, 2018

Sponsors: Pat Engels & Richard Medland

The Pajama Game

Book by George Abbott & Richard Bissell

Music & Lyrics by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross

Based on the novel “7 ½ Cents” by Richard Bissell

April 8 – 29, 2018

Co-Sponsors: Jane Kivel with Campbell, Yost, Clare & Norell, P.C.

“It’s amazing to me that something over 400 years old is still as funny today as it was then,” said Theatre Professor and Arizona Repertory Theatre Artistic Director, Brent Gibbs, when speaking of Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT. Gibbs’ mere mention of a scene that UA Theatre students rehearsed the night before provoked chuckles from a colleague nearby, Lighting Design Professor Deanna Fitzgerald, who also was present for the rehearsal. “It’s hilarious,” Fitzgerald said. “The students laugh so hard and they’ve seen it many times already.” Gibbs added that this production of TWELFTH NIGHT is timeless, and full of beauty and romance, in addition to being funny.

(For show summary and more details, visit theatre.arizona.edu.)

Dates & Times:

Previews: Mar 5 at 1:30pm, Mar 6 at 7:30pm

Evenings: Mar 8 – 11, Mar 23 – 25, Mar 31 – Apr 1 at 7:30pm

Matinees: Mar 11, Mar 25 – 26, Apr 2 at 1:30pm

Place: Marroney Theatre on the UA campus located near the SE

corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.

Cost/Admission: Regular $28, Senior/UA Employee/Military $26, Student $15, Preview $17, Alumni discount $6 off qualifying rate | Deeper discounts apply to groups (other than students) numbering 10+

Ticket Information: UA Fine Arts Box Office, (520) 621-1162

12p-4p | M-F | theatre.arizona.edu or tickets.arizona.edu

Parking: Park Avenue Garage, located on Park Avenue just north of Speedway Blvd. Pre-paid parking is available for weekday evening performances. Saturday and Sunday there is no charge to park. If you have special needs for parking, please call UA Parking & Transportation Services at (520) 621-3550.

Media Contact: Lisa Pierce, (520) 626-2686, lisapierce@email.arizona.edu

Production Sponsor: Marriott University Park   Season Sponsor: Chapman Automotive

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TUCSON, AZ – Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama & the Tony Award for Best Play, Proof follows Catherine, daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, as she tries to come to grips with how much of her father’s madness or genius she will inherit after his recent death. The return of her controlling sister, who wishes to settle their father’s affairs, & the flirtations of Hal, a former graduate student of her late father’s, complicate matters. After Hal discovers a groundbreaking mathematical proof among the late mathematician’s papers, the struggle is on to find out who really wrote it.

Dates & Times:

Previews: Feb 5 at 1:30pm, Feb 6 at 7:30pm

Evenings: Feb 8 – 11, Feb 16 – 18, Feb 24 – 25 at 7:30pm

Matinees: Feb 12, Feb 18 – 19, Feb 26 at 1:30pm

Place: Tornabene Theatre on the UA campus located near the SE

corner of Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.

Cost/Admission: Regular $28, Senior/UA Employee/Military $26, Student $15, Preview $17, Alumni discount $6 off qualifying rate | Deeper discounts apply to groups (other than students) numbering 10+

Ticket Information: UA Fine Arts Box Office, (520) 621-1162

12p-4p | M-F | theatre.arizona.edu or tickets.arizona.edu

Parking: Park Avenue Garage, located on Park Avenue just north of Speedway Blvd. Pre-paid parking is available for weekday evening performances. Saturday and Sunday there is no charge to park. If you have special needs for parking, please call UA Parking & Transportation Services at (520) 621-3550.

Media Contact: Lisa Pierce, (520) 626-2686, lisapierce@email.arizona.edu

Production Sponsors: Pat Engels & Richard Medland

Season Sponsor: Chapman Automotive