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Live Theatre Workshop
5317 E Speedway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85712-4921
(520) 327-4242

Gift Certificate for Two Admissions to any Mainstage performance during the 2011-2012 Live Theatre Workshop Season.

Our Mission:

Live Theatre Workshop provides performance and education to entertain, enlighten and uplift our community and to develop theatrical talent.

Live Theatre Workshop is a 501-c-3 non-profit organization. Generous support is provided by private and public foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, The Stephen J. Miller Foundation, The Ralph L. Smith Foundation, Target Stores and by its growing list of dedicated patrons.

Mainstage - The 2011-2012 Season

The Mainstage has something for everyone! Playing the best in popular theatre, including comedy, mystery and drama, the Mainstage is sure to provide a memorable occasion for all.

Shows run Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30pm and Sunday afternoons at 3pm
Two preview performances Thursdays and Fridays of first week of run at 7:30pm
Call 327-4242 for reservations

THE FOREIGNER, by Larry Shue

Winner of two Obie Awards and two Outer Critics Circle Awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway Production. An inspired comic romp, THE FOREIGNER enjoyed a sold-out premiere in Milwaukee before moving on to a long run Off-Broadway. Based on what the NY Post describes as a "devilishly clever idea," the play demonstrates what can happen when a group of devious characters must deal with a stranger who (they think) knows no English.

 "I laughed start to finish at one comic surprise after another." —The New Yorker. "…a constant invitation to relax and laugh at the foolishness of life…" —Village Voice. "Shue's comedy is positively antic, yet pleasantly seasoned with a few dashes of sentimentality…He has raided comedy's storehouse…" —Bergen Record.

November 17, 2011 - December 31, 2011

RECKLESS, by Craig Lucas

At home on Christmas Eve, Rachel is informed by her guilty husband that he has hired a hitman to kill her, and she must flee for her life!!

This richly inventive dark comedy marked the arrival of an exceptionally imaginative and resourceful young playwright. Filled with crazy characters and events "…Mr. Lucas has given us a bittersweet Christmas fable for our time. It's a Wonderful Life as it might be reimagined for contemporary America …RECKLESS…has a simple emotional pull akin to that of a Crosby ballad... it yanks us through every conceivable comic absurdist hoop, fracturing narrative, language and characterization on the way to its rending destination." —NY Times.

January 5, 2012 - February 12, 2012

ALL MY SONS, by Arthur Miller

The great Arthur Miller's classic play about guilt, responsibility, and the relationship between fathers and sons in the aftermath of World War II. All My Sons asks: What do you believe in—and how do you go on believing—when the world changes, and the ones who gave you those beliefs have let you down? Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this masterpiece launched Arthur Miller's career and crowned him one of America's most successful playwrights.

February 16, 2012 - March 18, 2012

SHIRLEY VALENTINE, by Willy Russell

Back by popular demand, Carlisle Ellis stars in Willy Russell's tour-de-force is an ordinary middle class English housewife. As she prepares chips and egg for dinner, she ruminates on her life and tells the wall about her husband, her children, her past, and an invitation from a girlfriend to join her on holiday in Greece.

"Absolutely smashing."-The New York Post

"A joyful, captivating piece of theatre."-The New York Daily News

"A thrilling, cheer raising piece of theatre."- The Financial Times

March 22, 2012 - April 22, 2012

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, by Ariel Dorfman

Winner of the Sir Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season 1992. Winner of 5 Dora Awards 1996. Tony award winning Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman starred on Broadway in this suspenseful mystery. A white knuckle thriller -- and a rivetting intellectual and emotional tug of war.

"Searing." Christian Science Monitor.

"Magnificent.... One of those rare plays which ... seem to grasp the pulse of the century." London Financial Times.

"A terrifying moral thriller which combines brilliant theatricality with clear thought and fierce compassion." London Sunday Times.

"Suspenseful, rivetting ... [and] movingly personal." N.Y. Times.

April 26, 2012 - June 3, 2012

THE COCKTAIL HOUR, by A.R. Gurney

From the author of SYLVIA, comes this winner of the Lucille Lortel Award as Best Off-Broadway Play. A long-runming New York success, this witty, perceptive play blends humor with moments of affecting poignancy. "THE COCKTAIL HOUR is as funny and moving as The Dining Room…it could be the best play he has done so far." —The New Yorker. "It makes for a deliciously funny and also occasionally touching evening, as Gurney's family sit around raking over old coals and settling old scores with a quite new and beguiling freshness." —NY Post. "The lines in the play crackle and pop with an electricity all their own." —Drama-Logue. "…when I watch Gurney at his best, as he is here, I laugh through the tears." —NY Daily News.

Item Special Note

Not redeemable for cash. Expires 10/31/2012.