Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

This summer, join Arizona Arts Live and Live Nation for Grammy-winning Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Don’t miss these two icons reuniting for their latest release, Raise the Roof, nominated for Best Americana Album, Best American Roots Song, and Best Country Duo/Group Performance!
“These are songs that have gone into our hearts way back in time, but […]

Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

Join Arizona Arts Live and Arizona Public Media for Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! NPR’s weekly radio quiz program hosted by Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis.

Enjoy this live, family-friendly show as radio listeners test their knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what’s real news […]

Compagnia TPO

FARFALLE
MAY 5 – 8, 2022

AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE WHERE CHILDREN WILL BE EXPECTED TO TAKE OFF THEIR SHOES AND DIVE RIGHT INTO A WHIMSICAL WORLD…
-THE NATIONAL
Two dancers move, play and paint in the air, telling the story of the slow metamorphosis of the butterfly.  COMPAGNIA TPO’s “theater of the senses” weaves dance, storytelling, and visual experience […]

Lila Downs

Winner of 6 Latin Grammys and one Grammy, celebrated singer Lila Downs is one of the most powerful and unique voices that exist today. With a symbolic stage presence and emotional storytelling through song, her singing transcends all language barriers.

Born and raised in both Oaxaca and Minnesota, Lila Downs is the daughter of a Mixtec […]

Dorrance Dance – Postponed

With nine tap dancers and one acoustic bass player, Michelle Dorrance’s SOUNDspace strips tap dance down to its most raw basics—movement as pure music. SOUNDspace invites the audience to experience tap dancing with a fresh pair of eyes and ears, with both an acknowledgment towards the past and a look into the future.

Dorrance Dance is […]

Small Island Big Song

Small Island Big Song celebrates 5,000 years of Pacific Islander culture.

From Taiwan to Aotearoa/New Zealand – Madagascar to Rapa Nui/Easter Island.

Islanders who share an ancient seafaring ancestry and language.

Over three years, Small Island Big Song evolved from visits to 16 Island Nations, and work with over 100 artists, solo artists, elders, community groups, and grassroots […]

Circa

…THEIR EXPRESSIVENESS WAS AS MOVING AS IT WAS BREATHTAKING

-THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring has inspired dances and ballets for over 100 years, but never circus – until now. See the bodies of 10 fearless acrobats – highlighted by a technically and artistically stunning lighting design – hurl, twist, and collide in an […]

Jon Batiste

One of the best-known musicians of his generation, virtuoso pianist, singer, bandleader, educator, and television personality Jon Batiste has spent his career bringing music back to where it started — with the people. Born into Louisiana’s legendarily musical Batiste family, Jon studied at Juilliard, where he established his Stay Human band by playing around New […]

Kronos

Kronos Quartet is a string quartet based in San Francisco consisting of David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt, and Sunny Yang. David Harrington founded the quartet and performed for the first time in November 1973. Since playing, they have completed over 900 pieces cultivating a long history of commissioning new works.

The Kronos Quartet has worked […]

Mark Morris Dance Group

This new evening-length work by Mark Morris, created at the request of the City of Liverpool will premiere May 2017, kicking off Liverpool’s Sgt. Pepper at 50 Festival, a season-long tribute to the groundbreaking album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.  Pepperland features an original score by composer Ethan Iverson inspired by the songs “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely […]