Tucson Opera News Today

We caught up with Michael Vietinghoff and Matt Beaudry just after they wrapped their weekly Monday podcast, The Big Daddies. The pair have seven children...

Sassy, hayseed raunch queen Janet Williams is now 74 years old. We could almost feel her grinning across the miles from her Tennessee home. But...

Suzie Agrillo has long believed that laughing makes us feel better. A Google search confirms it; even the Mayo Clinic agrees. So, after a particularly...

As much as she loved art, Alanna Airitam felt she didn’t belong in museums. There were few people who looked like her on the walls...

When Tess Altiveros was debating whether to take on a new project at the Seattle Opera, the conductor, Michael Sakir, told her, “This opera will...

Justin Lukasewicz, owner and director of Tucson Improv Movement and the TIM Comedy theater, always seems to be beaming when he is there. Lukasewicz is...

Dan Stuart traveled the world as a kind of underground minstrel fronting the far-reaching band Green on Red, which began in late-’70s Tucson as the...

Vir Das faces different stakes when he invokes his freedom of speech. While some American comedians complain about being “canceled” for racism, vulgarity and run-of-the-mill...

Clean Comedy Marana wasn’t even a glimmer in Randy Jenkins’ eye when he asked his now wife, Stephanie, out on a first date. It was...

Casey Bynum grew up a comedy-club kid. “Back then it was a lot more of a party atmosphere,” he said. “Anybody that was in town...