28 June 19 - July 2, 2010
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Thu., July 1, for Mesa Arts Center’s upcoming 2010-11 Performing Live season. The season includes a wide variety of performances, ranging from world music icon Ravi Shankar and pop rockers Hanson to a classical series featuring Lang Lang and Joshua Bell to comedy from the upcoming season finalists of NBC’s Last Comic Standing and many more. Underwater explorer and conservationist Jean Michel Cousteau, the son of the
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www.SanTanSun.com MAC announces upcoming season TCA hosts July 4 celebration
Friends of TCA hosts an Independence Day celebration from 6 to 10 p.m. Sun., July 4 at Tempe Center for the Arts.
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FUNNY: Comedy is on tap at the MAC this fall.
legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, reflects on his father’s life and on-going legacy at 7:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 20 in the Ikeda Theater.
Jean Michel Cousteau
Theater League will mount “The Color Purple” Oct. 12 to13; “Cirque Dreams Illumination” Nov. 9 to 10; “A Chorus Line” Jan. 11 to 12, 2011; and “Spamalot” Feb. 15 to 16. Follow the wild ride Cuban/American Mireya Mayor took as she journeyed from Miami Dolphins cheerleader,
to Fulbright Scholar, to working as a primatologist in the jungles of Madagascar, to TV correspondent for National Geographic at 7:30 p.m. March 23, 2011. Mesa Arts Center is located at 1 E. Main St. in downtown Mesa. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 480-644-6500 or visit
www.mesaartscenter.com.
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Arizona Designer Craftsmen 50th Anniversary Juried Exhibition through Aug. 8, Mesa Art Center, 1 E. Main St., downtown Mesa.
Downtown Chandler Art Walk, 5-9 p.m. Friday, June 18 and third Fridays. Free kids art project during Art Walk. Info:
www.downtownchandlerartwalk.com/.
Valley Fever Improv at Kokopelli Winery Sat., June 19. Info:
www.ValleyFeverImprov.com.
The event begins with no-host drinks at the TCA Lounge, followed by a picnic buffet at the 201 Lounge offering hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, cowboy beans, corn cobbettes, pineapple coleslaw, apple cobbler and coffee from Santa Barbara Catering, as well as a no-host bar. Patrons can view the Tempe fireworks show starting at 9:30 p.m. from the TCA Terrace Rooftop or from inside the 201 Lounge.
Cost is $60 per person, or $100 per couple. Complimentary TCA parking is included. Space is limited; reservations are required no later than June 29. Proceeds help support Friends of TCA.
Tempe Center for the Arts is located at 700 W. Rio Salado Pkwy. in Tempe. For more information, call 480-350-2884 or visit
www.friendsoftca.org.
On Valley stages
“The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” through June 20, Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Pkwy., Tempe. Tempe Little Theatre performs the relationship comedy. Box office: 480-350-2822.
“In the Heights,” through June 20, ASU Gammage, 1200 S. Forest Ave., Tempe. The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical about chasing dreams and finding home. Box office: 480-965-5062.
Mireya Mayor
“The Princess and the Pea,” through June 26, Hale Center Theatre, 50 W. Page Ave., Gilbert. Hale Children’s Theatre adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Box office: 480-497-1181.
“The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast,” presented by East Valley Children’s Theatre, through June 27, Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse, Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St., Mesa. East Valley Children’s Theatre performs this classic tale. Box office: 480-644-6500.
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