Kathleen Allen

Tucson

Assistant Features Editor and Arts Editor at Arizona Daily Star

Arts. arts. arts. Am lucky to write about them for Arizona Daily Star. Pinch me.

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Articles

Today's Video: Mississippi John Hurt

Feb 27, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen

The great bluesman sings "You Got To Walk That LonesomeValley." Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community.
Broadway in Tucson announces season

Feb 27, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen

Finally, the Old Pueblo is getting "Spring Awakening." That Tonywinning musical is raw, sexy, funny — it's just plain good. It'll come later in Broadway in Tucson's just-announced 2010-11season -- Feb. 15-20, 2011 -- but the coming of age musical is wellworth the wait. It's the second blockbuster in Broadway in Tucson's season --the first is the previously announced "Wicked," being presentedJan. 5-23 in conjunction with UApresents. Opening the season Nov.
Panel discussion on arts, arts journalism

Feb 27, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen

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Arizona playwrights, take note

Feb 27, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen

The Artist's Path, a new state wide arts initiative based inPrescott, has a call out for new plays centering around the themesof conflict and social crisis. The deadline is Aug. 1. Check outhttp://www.theartistspath.org for details. Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community.
Tucson is lucky to have Rogue Theatre, which is now staging heartbreaking 'Marjorie Prime'

Feb 25, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen

The Rogue Theatre‘s small stage spills over with big ideas with its production of “Marjorie Prime.”The Jordan Harrison play is about loss — loss of memory, loss of control, loss of those we’ve loved. And oh, yes, artificial intelligence. The story is set in the mid 21st century. Marjorie is 86, widowed and her memory fades in and out. She lives with her strident daughter, Tess, and Tess’ empathetic husband, Jon.
Appreciations, not pies, are what Southern Arizona firefighters need

Feb 25, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen

Of course firefighters love homemade pies. But please, don’t bring them any. “They have everything they need,” says Heidi Schewel, spokeswoman for the Coronado National Forest, where the large Burro, Lizard and Frye fires are burning, as well as several smaller ones mostly as a result of dry lightning strikes. She’s not being polite. They really do have everything they need, from sunscreen to water to food.
'Tootsie' rolls into Tucson

Feb 25, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen |David Yazbek |Robert Horn

Back in 1982, the movie “Tootsie” burst onto the scene and folks fell in love. In 2019, the musical “Tootsie” leaped onto Broadway and yup, everyone fell in love again. And no wonder: the story of a hard-to-get-along-with actor who disguises himself as a woman in order to get a job is very funny. Not that you would know it when the road show opened at Centennial Hall March 22.
So much to love about 'Some Like It Hot,' in town through Feb. 23

Feb 20, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen

This is not your parents’ “Some Like It Hot.”The infectious musical, now on stage at Centennial Hall, captures the slap-stacky, joyous spirit of the 1959 Billy Wilder movie starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. And the framework is about the same — two musicians witness a mob murder and try to escape the killers by dressing as women and joining an all-female band touring via train around the country.
ATC's 'Blues in the Night' shows why blues music is timeless

Feb 3, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen

One of the great gifts of the last century is American blues. And Arizona Theatre Company’s “Blues in the Night” is chock full of the music. It is a platform for songs by some of the greatest musicians in the genre, among them Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington. The scene is a rickety old hotel in 1930s Chicago (kudos to Edward E. Haynes Jr. for the evocative set).
Invisible Theatre's 'Constitution' is a must-see play

Jan 24, 2025 | tucson.com | Kathleen Allen

Talk about timely. “What the Constitution Means to Me,” now on stage at Invisible Theatre, is the play we need right now. Playwright Heidi Schrek first presented this in 2019. The somewhat autobiographical piece is nowhere near as dry as the title might suggest. When Schrek was 15, she traveled around to American Legion halls where the winner of a debate about the document was rewarded money. She earned enough to send herself through college. This play begins as a reconstruction of her argument.