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9-year-old Tucson native Miriam Howell will star as Matilda in “Matilda the Musical.”

Tucson theater company brings ‘Matilda’ to life

Grant Hoover, Reporter December 16, 2023

At some point in their life, a lot of children will have to deal with mean, vindictive adults, something that continues as they get older. Perhaps this is why the story told in “Matilda...

UA brings ‘The Laramie Project’ to stage on 25th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s murder

October 6, 2023

Cast members rehearse "The Laramie Project." L-R: Leland Hao, Brooke Gorman, Ray Cuevas. Photo credit Tim Fuller Grant Hoover, El Inde Arizona The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film &...

The Arizona Poetry Center pays for poet's writings, including Shakespeare, to run above the Sunlink stops for students to see while they wait.

English curricula begin to steer away from Shakespeare

Brit Reid April 11, 2018

To read or not to read? That is the question that English teachers are asking when it comes to including the work of William Shakespeare in their classes While Shakespeare remains the most produced...

Teatro Dignidad's Alba Jaramillo. (Photo by Betsy Kaplan/Arizona Sonora News)

New Arizona theater company inspires audiences to think about universal human rights issues

Betsy Kaplan November 15, 2017

A Tucson human rights lawyer saw a need to create a conversation about issues within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Tucson’s newest theater company Teatro Dignidad produces plays about...

Susan Claassen at Invisible Theatre in Tucson. (Photo by Betsy Kaplan//Arizona Sonora News)

Why late Edith Head’s doppelgänger will never leave Tucson

Betsy Kaplan November 1, 2017

Each Thanksgiving Day, one of Arizona’s “48 Most Intriguing Women” becomes a clown. But when it comes to her career, the 5-foot Tucsonan is anything but clownish. Susan Claassen’s energy,...

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