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Downtown Performing Arts Season Preview T H E AT R E borderlands theater presents our dad is in a t l a n t i s , m a rc h 5 -2 2 , 2 0 0 9. Borderlands Theater www.borderlandstheater.org 520.882.7406 his theater company is an absolute gem and a true homegrown original. Founded in 1986 with a small board of directors and staff, its mission was to be a communitybased activist theater focusing on chicano and immigration issues driven by our proximity to the border. as it has grown, so has the mission which now attempts to reflect the diversity of all of the voices of the southwest. over the years Borderlands has produced a provocative mix of drama and comedy with as few as three and as many as six productions a year. Many of these works were written by emerging Latinos/Latinas, some of them writing and producing their very first productions. Borderlands also strives to connect with the community through a variety of educational programs including acting workshops for youth, open auditions and the Borderlands Playwrights Program. this season Borderlands has three productions scheduled. under the heading of Recreating Stolen Dreams, these plays are Blind Date, A Tucson Pastorela and Our Dad is in Atlantis. written by Max diament, Blind date is described as a story of passions hatching in an intricate labyrinth of chance encounters. Inspired by the literary world of the great argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges— who explored the illusion of time and space and ventured into parallel worlds long before quantum mechanics became fashionable—Blind date works like a puzzle whose pieces come together at the end of the play. It plays at the Zuzi theatre, october 9-19. - Jim Lipson t arizona theatre company presents hair, nov 29 – dec 20. Arizona Theatre Company www.aztheatreco.org 520-622-2823 Between september and april, Beowulf will stage five plays. From november 1-16 is the world premiere of tucsonan Gavin Kayner’s Noche de los Muertos. the playwright’s work has been received as a top ten selection for the Reva shiner award, a semi-finalist for the ashland new Play Festival, and the third prize winner in the Latino/chicano Literary competition - university of california-Irvine. other award-winning premieres on the schedule include Dinner With Friends (January 10-25), the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and 3 Guys in Drag Selling Their Stuff (February 14-March 1), is the 2000-2001 winner of the spotlight on Best Play award for Excellence in off-off Broadway theatre. opening the season is classic thriller Wait Until Dark, the 1966 Broadway hit that starred Robert duvall and Lee Remick. - Jamie Manser he arizona theatre company season opens with a tonynominated Broadway hit based on the best-selling novel, Enchanted April. It is a heartwarming comedy about the romantic rediscovery of life’s enchantments. a group of British women rent a villa one spring in 1922, where their lives of ordered regularity blossom into glorious disarray. the american tribal Love Rock Musical, HAIR is presented in december. a young man’s struggle with community and personal responsibility set to a soundtrack of revolutionary rock and roll. the year is 1968, and a tribe of hippies in new York’s central Park is letting down their gleaming, streaming, long beautiful hair. “the 2008-2009 season feels like an especially hopeful journey, which seems appropriate to challenging times,” said arizona theatre company artistic director david Ira Goldstein in announcing the season. “wildly divergent in style and diverse in theme, each of these plays has juicy energy and theatricality.” the arizona theatre company has produced more than 280 plays since its founding in 1967 as the arizona civic theatre (act). act achieved professional status in 1972 then began presenting a portion of its season in Phoenix in 1978. a year later the name was changed to the arizona theatre company. as the professional resident theatre of arizona, atc has been performing full seasons in both tucson and Phoenix to a combined audience of more than 150,000 since 1983 and has developed an impressive national reputation that attracts some of the nation’s most respected and talented theatre professionals. - sarah Logan t september.08. downtown tucsonan 11 http://www.borderlandstheater.org http://www.aztheatreco.org

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