Theater
There’s an abundance of theater to finish off the 2015-16 season.
One unexpected one — added late in the season — is “Dreamscape” at The Rogue Theatre April 2. The Rickerby Hinds play uses poetry, dance and beatboxing to tell the story of Tyisha Miller, who was shot by police in Riverside in 1998.
Some brave women with Saddlebrooke’s Prime Time Players take the stage with “Calendar Girls,” a sweet comedy about a group of older women who agree to pose nude for a charity calendar. It’s April 5-10 at the MountainView Country Club
The UA’s Arizona Repertory Theatre’s musicals are much in demand, and this one should be especially so: Jonathan Larson’s “Rent,” playing April 10-May 1 at the Marroney Theatre on the UA campus.
The sultry “Anna in the Tropics” is Something Something Theatre Company’s offering April 14-May 1. It takes place in 1929 in a Florida cigar factory where the workers are entertained by a reading of “Anna Karenina.” It’s at Zuzi Theatre.
“The Ghosts of Lote Bravo” closes Borderlands Theater’s season. The Hilary Betts play is about a young woman who has disappeared in the desert outside Ciudad Juarez and the visions by La Santa Muerte that reveal to her mother who her daughter really was. It’s April 14-May 1 at the Temple of Music and Art’s Cabaret Theater.
Scott Carter has written Arizona Theatre Company’s season-ender, “The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord.” The comedy brings the three together to discuss scripture and the meaning of existence. It’s April 9-30 at the Temple of Music and Art.
And what’s spring without a bit of Neil Simon? Invisible Theatre stages his comedy “I Ought to be in Pictures” April 19-May 1. It’s about a teen who tracks down her father in Hollywood in hopes he can point the way to stardom. At Invisible Theatre.
Thornton Wilder’s novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” is adapted for the stage by The Rogue Theatre’s Cynthia Meier. It’s about a friar in search of a cosmic reason for death. It’s April 21-May 8 at the Rogue.
And Arizona Rose Theatre tackles a big one with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock musical “Jesus Christ Superstar.” It’s at the Berger Performing Arts Center April 23-May 1.
