This spring, Tucson’s enthusiastic performing arts and cultural scene is booming with talented artists, musicians, dancers, and actors throughout the Tucson area. Grab your tickets now and plan for an enriching season of showstopping theatrical numbers, choreographies that will leave you breathless, and sensational symphonies. Here are just a few of the many performing arts events for the upcoming season:
Theatre
Broadway in Tucson
Motown The Musical by Berry Gordy
Feb. 21 to Feb. 26
UA Centennial Hall
Arizona Repertory Theatre
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
March 5 to April 2
Tornabene Theatre
Arizona Repertory Theatre
Evita (lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber)
April 9 to April 30
Tornabene Theatre
Arizona Theatre Company
Holmes and Watson by Jeffrey Hatcher
April 15 to May 6
Temple of Music and Art
Dance
UADance Ensemble
Les Noces (with The Arizona Choir) | The American | Recesses
Feb. 15 to Feb. 19
Stevie Eller Dance Theatre
UADance Ensemble
Spring Collection
April 21 to April 30
Stevie Eller Dance Theatre
Ballet Tucson
Spring Concert- Dance and Dessert 2017
March 17 to March 19
Stevie Eller Dance Theatre
Classical Music
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
St. Lawrence Quartet
Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Leo Rich Theatre
Performing:
Haydn: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20 No. 3
John Adams: Quartet No. 2
Beethoven: Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
Prazák Quartet
Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Leo Rich Theatre
Performing:
Haydn: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 71 No. 1
Suk: Quartet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 11
Dvorák Quartet in A-flat Major, Op. 105
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Tucson Symphony Orchestra- BRAHMS REQUIEM
Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 20 at 2 p.m.
Tucson Music Hall
Performing:
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw
Brahms: A German Requiem
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Tucson Symphony Orchestra feat. pianist Conrad Tao- RHAPSODY IN BLUE AND BILLY THE KID
Feb. 17, at 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 19 at 2 p.m.
Tucson Music Hall
Performing:
Kevin Puts: Two Mountain Scenes
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, “I Got Rhythm” variations
Roberto Sierra: Fandangos
Copland: Billy the Kid Suite