The season is in full swing now, and there’s plenty to keep us entertained. You can catch a mystery at Live Theatre Workshop, a grown-up fairy tale at Arizona Theatre Company, or a Greek classic at Winding Road. And so much more:
Luna Gale — St. Francis Theater. See review.
Opening
An Iliad — Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater, 330 S. Scott Ave. Winding Road Theatre Company takes on Homer’s “Iliad.” This is a modern-day retelling of the epic poem, adapted by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare. It covers only a few weeks in the last year of the 10-year-long Trojan War. But it is packed with beauty, battles, death, prophecies. Susan Arnold directs. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27-28, and 2 p.m. Oct. 29. Continues through Nov. 4. $22. Windingroadtheater.org or 401-3626.
Two Plays for Lost Souls — The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre at the Historic Y, 738 N. Fifth Ave. The new theater company presents two one-acts: “The Love Talker,” and “The Yellow Wallpaper.” “The Love Talker,” by Deborah Pryor, takes place in a desolate, spooky area where Bun is trying to care for her younger sister, who is entering adulthood with hormones and a curiosity about sex. Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s 1892 short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” adapted for the stage by Christopher Johnson, is considered an early piece of feminist literature. It takes the form of diary entries written by a woman while she was recovering from a “nervous breakdown.” In those days, any woman with a mind of her own was having a nervous breakdown. Bryan Rafael Falcón directs. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26-28; 2 p.m. Oct. 28 and 29. $28. 448-3300. Scoundrelandscamp.org.
Spy School — Mountain View High School, 3901 W. Linda Vista Blvd. A teen is drafted by the CIA to infiltrate a high school in order to sniff out a Russian spy. By Don Zolidis 7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 26-28. $6. 579-4449.
Odyssey Storytelling Presents: Chemistry — YWCA Southern Arizona, 525 N. Bonita Ave. Six people tell 10-minute personal stories based on the theme of chemistry. 7-9 p.m. Nov. 2. $8. 884-5063.
Last chance
Sherlock Holmes — Valley of the Moon, 2544 E. Allen Road. The detective leads a tour through the grounds while spilling tales of his adventures. Every 20 minutes 6-9 p.m. Oct. 27-31. Fridays. $10. 323-1331. tucsonvalleyofthemoon.com.
The Cat and the Canary — The Comedy Playhouse, 3620 N. First Ave. An attorney tries to protect the sole heir to a millionaire’s estate. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 and 28; 3 p.m. Oct. 29. Last chance. $18. 800-4192.
Continuing
The River Bride — Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. What playwright Marisela Treviño Orta had in mind was a fairy tale for grown-ups. When she came across the Brazilian legend about the Amazon’s river dolphins — they transform into handsome men at night and come ashore to seduce the women — she knew she had her plot. Orta’s play, Arizona Theatre Company’s current offering, whisks us to the small Brazilian village where sisters Helena and Belmira live with their parents. Belmira, the younger, will soon be married to a young man Helena always thought she would marry. As she tries to overcome her sorrow, a handsome man dressed in white is pulled out of the Amazon by her fisherman father. The play won ATC’s 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award. The one-act runs about 90 minutes. The final preview is 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26; opening is 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27. Continues at various times through Nov. 11. Tickets are $25-$63 atarizonatheatre.org or 622-2823.
Phantom of the Opera — The Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway. Peter Van Slyke’s version of the classic Gaston Leroux story about an opera singer, a stalking masked man and a famous opera house has a couple of old friends in the cast: David Fanning as the masked man, and Joe Cooper, who is coming out of retirement to reprise the role of Madame Giry. “Phantom” is at various times through Nov. 5. $19.95. 886-9428. thegaslighttheatre.com.
Baskerville — Live Theatre Workshop, 5317 E. Speedway. Here’s why you want to see this Ken Ludwig play: Stephen Frankenfield dons the deerstalker cap. He is a stitch. OK, there are more reasons: The comedy has Watson and Sherlock Holmes hunting down why the male heirs of the Baskerville line are being picked off one by one. The cast also includes Eric Du is Watson, Matthew Copley, Debbie Runge and Steve Wood. The small cast plays 43 different characters. Christopher Moseley directs. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 11. Thursday tickets are $15, regular performances, $20. 327-4242. Livetheatreworkshop.org.
The Addams Family — Marroney Theatre, 1025 N. Olive Road. The Addams Family started as a single-panel New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams in the 1930s. It was so popular, it was made into a TV show in the mid-1960s, then a movie in 1991, and in 2010 it became a Broadway musical. Seems you can’t keep those strange, goth ghouls down. The University of Arizona’s Arizona Repertory Theatre does a fun production of the so-so play. The plot: Wednesday Addams is in love and has wedding bells on her mind. Things get complicated when she begs her father not to tell her mother. That’s the least of her problems: wait till her boyfriend’s family meets hers. Various times through Nov. 4. $15-$31. 621-1162. theatre.arizona.edu.
Snow White and Friends — Roadrunner Theater, 8892 E. Tanque Verde Road. A musical comedy about Snow White and and all those charming pals she has. Ages 5 and under are free. $10-$12. 11 a.m. Saturdays through Nov. 4. Free. 207-2491.
Dia de los Muertos: The Musical — Live Theatre Workshop, 5317 E. Speedway. Live Theatre’s Managing Director Michael Martinez is a composer. A musician. A playwright. He combines all these skills for this children’s play celebrating the annual Day of the Dead. The story has the audience follow a young woman, who has lost a much-loved pet, on a journey to the world of the dead. There she realizes that it is not frightening and foreboding, as she thought, but a world of beauty and kindness. With the lesson in her heart, a new monster friend helps her return to the land of the living before she is stuck there forever. Performances are 12:30 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 5. $7-$10. 327-4242. livetheatreworkshop.org.
