Susan Claassen will direct Invisible Theatre s season finale before turning the sequined torch over to her longtime assistant managing artistic director.
Editor’s Note: While we are delighted to see Tucsonans once again gathering for fun events, we are also aware that variants are in widespread circulation..
Arizona Theatre Company debuted
The Legend of Georgia McBride at the Temple of Music and Art. Right after that opening night performance, the play closed down. The company has mounted no more in-person plays in Tucson or in Phoenix ever since.
Like so many other arts groups, ATC was stopped in its tracks by COVID. But only temporarily. After a failed effort to open up in January 2021, a month when the virus surged, the company is now feeling confident that it can stage a full season starting in September.
“We will be back!” artistic director Sean Daniels exclaims. He believes theatre fans will come roaring back once the country gets safer. “Patrons are stir-crazy. And Tucson is so supportive.”
It seems like almost every Tucson wall tells a story.
Some of them involve the Virgen de Guadalupe and others involve a man s skull shooting colorful beams of light into the ether.
Here s just a little selection of some of our favorites seen around town. Tucson s muralists continue to be hard at work during the pandemic creating images that are both hopeful and thought provoking.Â
UPDATE: Now with 12 more murals that you can find all around Tucson and Sahuarita.Â
Tucson Medical Center Mural
This mural at Tucson Medical Center was painted by Joe Pagac, Katherine Joyce Lester and Arielle Pagac-Alelunas in March 2021. Veronica M. Cruz