True Concord Voices & Orchestra will present the Southwest premiere of a choral ballet rooted in Mary Shelley’s timeless novel “Frankenstein.”
Broadway In Tucson is bringing the ghost with the most to Centennial Hall, while Arizona Theatre Company puts on its tap shoes for the blues revue “Blues in the Night.”
And Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra is taking us around the world in a season whose repertoire spans continents and centuries.
The 2024-25 arts picture is coming into focus now that some of Tucson’s biggest arts organizations have announced their upcoming seasons.
They join Tucson Symphony Orchestra, which announced its 2024-25 season in late February.
Arizona Theatre Company
The statewide theater company, entering its 57th season, puts on performances in Tucson — Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. — and Phoenix. Tickets can be purchased at atc.org.
“Dial M for Murder” opens the season Sept. 22-Oct. 12. The classic revenge thriller gets a makeover in this new adaptation.
Holiday fun abounds with the encore of “Scrooge!” Nov. 3-30. The company struck a holiday happy place when it brought this to the stage last year.
“Blues in the Night” kicks off the new year, Jan. 26-Feb. 15, 2025. This musical traces the blues influence on American music through the stories of a trio of women and a man navigating love, heartbreak and rebirth.
ATC is presenting the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan’s “Bob & Jean: A Love Story” March 23-April 12, 2025.
The gal-pal comedy of “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B” is here May 18-June 7, 2025. Laughter and intrigue dominate in this modern-day reimagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes characters.
Broadway In Tucson
Ashely D. Kelley and Grey Henson in the musical "Shucked," which Broadway In Tucson is bringing to Centennial Hall in August 2025.
The organization marks its 19th season bringing Broadway shows to Tucson. Performances are at Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd., on the University of Arizona campus. Tickets are available through broadwayintucson.com.
Put on your detective goggles Nov. 12-17 for the season-opener “Clue: Live on Stage.” Based on the 1985 film version of the classic Hasbro board game, the guests at Boddy Manor are putting together the clues in this whodunnit mystery.
The ghost with the most is trying to get Lydia Deetz to utter his name three times in the musical version of Tim Burton’s smash hit “Beetlejuice,” coming here Dec. 3-8.
The Tony Award-winning song-and-dance fest of “Some Like It Hot” will bring some of Chicago’s prohibition era glam to Tucson Feb. 18-23, 2025.
Although it’s been here a couple of times, can you ever really get enough of the ABBA musical “Mamma Mia!”? The musical, closing in on its 25th anniversary, is here May 20-25, 2025.
The bio-jukebox musical “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” retraces the life of the Brooklyn boy who grew up to become one of the biggest American pop music icons of all time. It’s here June 24-29, 2025.
There’s something corny afoot in the Tony Award-winning musical comedy “Shucked,” coming Aug. 5-10, 2025. Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally penned the score and “Tootsie” writer Robert Horn wrote the book about the small town of Cob County trying to revive its dying corn in time for the wedding of Maizy and Beau.
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra Conductor Linus Lerner will lead the orchestra on a musical tour around the world next season.
The orchestra, under the baton of longtime Music Director Linus Lerner, is embarking on “Musical Journeys” with concerts that promise to take audiences on an unforgettable voyage into different cultures and emotions. The orchestra performs at SaddleBrooke’s DesertView Performing Arts Center, 399000 S. Clubhouse Drive, and northwest Tucson’s St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7650 N. Paseo del Norte. For tickets, visit sasomusic.org.
First stop, “America, Germany and Russia,” Oct. 12-13, featuring works by Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov and Charles Ives.
“Italy and Germany,” with Italian conductor Antonio di Mauro Nov. 9-1, featuring works by Rossini, Bruch and Mendelssohn.
“America, Russia and Romania” Feb. 1-2, 2025, with works by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Leroy Anderson and Georges Enesco.
SASO goes to the opera with “Opera Songs from Around the World” March 9-10, featuring arias, overtures and ensembles from de Falla, Puccini and others sung by a cast of guest soloists.
Last stop, “Brazil, Russia, Spain and France,” with works from Ravel, Bizel de Falla, Shostakovich, Villa-Lobos and Alberto Nepomuceno.
True Concord Voices & Orchestra
True Concord Voices & Orchestra is celebrating Tucson in its 2024-25 season.
The Grammy-nominated ensemble is celebrating Tucson’s upcoming 250th birthday with a season that includes revisiting old friends, making new friends and collaborating as it honors its connection to the city that has nurtured it through 20 seasons. Tickets at trueconcord.org.
For the first time ever, True Concord teams up with Arizona’s other Grammy-honored choir, the Phoenix Chorale, for “French Masters & the Spirit of Collaboration” Oct. 11-12. The concert features the combined choirs performing Duruflé’s Requiem, Martin’s Mass for Double Choir and Fauré’s “Cantique de Jean Racine.”
The Minneapolis-based James Sewell Ballet joins True Concord for “Frankenstein, Brahms & the Search for Love” Nov. 22-24. The concert is anchored by the Southwest premiere of “Unfashioned Creature, a Choral Ballet” by True Concord co-Composer-in-Residence Timothy C. Takach and choreographer Penny Freeh. The piece is rooted in Mary Shelley’s horror novel “Frankenstein,” and includes Brahms Neue Liebeslieder Walzer and a new work by the winner of True Concord’s Stephen Paulus Emerging Composers Competition.
“Lessons & Carols by Candlelight: A Southwest Christmas” returns Dec. 12-15.
“Handel & Vivaldi: The Best of Baroque,” Jan. 17-19, 2025, includes Vivaldi’s gorgeous “Gloria.
Bass baritone Ryan Speedo Green will perform a Close-Up recital with True Concord on Jan. 16, 2025.
Close-Up recital series: Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green will kick off True Concord’s 2025 Close-Up recital series on Jan. 15, 2025. Composers-in-residence Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach return for a recital Feb. 16 and soprano Chelsea Helm closes the series April 1.
Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach will perform during True Concord's 2025 Close-Up recital series.
