Arts

Tickets go on sale for the Arizona Jazz Festival on Thursday, Nov. 23 at 10 AM and PhxSoul has the SCOOP on the line-up! The Arizona Jazz Festival will be held on March 22-24, 2024 at The Venue on High Street in Phoenix! Start making your plans now! The Spring 2024 HEADLINERS...

Submitted by Laura Schairer, Audience Magnets Black Theatre Troupe is proud to present Langston Hughes’ acclaimed song play, BLACK NATIVITY, a powerful and soul-stirring retelling of the Nativity story through gospel music, dance, and spoken word. The production will run...

Roosevelt Junction: An Urban Art, Beats, & Eats Festival for a Purpose December-17 at 5:00 PM Walter Studios 747 West Roosevelt Street Phoenix, Arizona 85007 Event Cost/Ticket Price: $45 Event Details: Phoenix is set to come alive with a burst of creativity, diversity, and...

50 Shades of Funny in Phoenix January 13, 2024 7:30pm & 9:30pm Showtimes PHOENIX CENTER FOR THE ARTS 1202 N. 3RD STREET PHOENIX, AZ 85004 Event Cost/Ticket Price: $25 An old-school Hip-Hop comedy show featuring veteran comedians from B.E.T. Comicview, DEF Comedy Jam, T.V. and...

Good Energy Productions presents HomeBase Poetry 15 Year Anniversary January 28 at 2:00 PM Tempe Center for the Arts 700 W Rio Salado Parkway Tempe, Arizona 85281 It’s been 15 years, and to honor our love for this beautiful art we call spoken word poetry, HomeBase Poetry...

Poetic Soul Phoenix Returning to Club Dwntwn on September 13, 2023! Every Wednesday NightDoors open at 7 PM Location:Club Dwntwn (as of 8/23/23)702 N Central AvePhoenix, AZ 85004 Join Poetic Soul EVERY Wednesday night! Alcohol is served herein. Must be 21+ w/ Proper...

Get Ready for ‘The Wiz,’ ‘MJ,’ ‘Tina,’ Hamilton,’ ‘The Temptations’ and more! ASU Gammage has unveiled its 2023–24 Desert Financial Broadway Across America Arizona season, which includes six Tempe premieres, a pre-Broadway...

Submitted by Cynde Cerf, Chandler Center for the Arts When artist Ashli St. Armant created North: The Musical it was in response to her sons lacking knowledge about the Underground Railroad. Surprisingly, the topic was included in discussions at school during Black History Month....

By Eden Ashley Umble for PhxSoul.com Marvin Scott has the beatific air and warm smile of someone who loves what he does. As the Program & Community Engagement Director for Rosie’s House, he changes the lives of Phoenix kids through music. An undeniable bright spot in the...

In an effort to raise awareness about the many contributions that Black inventors, scientists, activists, athletes, artists and musicians have made throughout the world, Gizette Knight, founded the Black History Mural project in Phoenix in February 2021. This year in 2022, Knight...

“Jazz is a spirit, and it’s something that you feel inside.” Submitted by Laura Schairer, Audience Magnets Dianne Reeves, “the most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday,” makes her first-ever appearance at Tempe Center for the...

Four Friends Use Their Music to Create Connection Submitted by Cynde Cerf, Chandler Center for the Arts When you hear the story of Sons of Serendip and how they came to be, you understand that their name is a fitting tribute to the serendipitous way the group was formed. Talking...

“Rehearsals are like putting on a bunch of coats,” said Black Theatre Troupe actor Kwane Vedrene in a recent phone conversation. “You are putting coats on because you are too cold, layering them on, then you get too hot, so you take some off. Hopefully by the time of the first...

The former pastor’s kid has found success on Broadway, the R&B charts, and beyond Submitted by Cynde Cerf, Marketing and Communications Coordinator Mykal Kilgore has always had music in his life. As a pastor’s kid, singing was a part of who he was, and then, later, there was...

Soulful sax man Jermaine Lockhart recently sat down with PhxSoul.com multimedia journalist Jonathan Tease to discuss his highly successful, international jazz music career! Lockhart performed LIVE with singer/songwriter Kim Weston at The Nash in Phoenix on July 23. The night...

Submitted by Audience Magnets PHOENIX – The Black Theatre Troupe’s 2020-2021 season Telling Our Stories will mark the 50th year the company has celebrated the Black experience. Since their 1970 debut production of Lonnie Elder’s nationally acclaimed drama of social and political...

With her overriding passion for bringing underrepresented groups into the tech field and a deep understanding of the importance of the arts to develop creative, critical thinkers, the Chandler Cultural Foundation welcomes Sherida McMullan to its Managing Board. The recommendation...

Chandler Cultural Foundation, the non-profit managing Board for the Chandler Center of the Arts, has appointed LaTricia Harper Woods as a new member. Woods has an extensive 25-year career in strategic planning and implementation of community engagement, public relations, public...

Review submitted by Jonathan Tease Recently (February 2020), I had the pleasure of seeing “Master Harold…” and the Boys at the Herberger Theater Center in downtown Phoenix. The show runs through March 1 and I highly recommend going to see it while you can. Prior to...

Submitted by Collette Watson “I remember a time when I didn’t have lunch money. My mom didn’t have money to give me. So she handed me a bag of watches. My mom was a hustler.” Wednesday night in Tempe, eight local figures shared true personal stories at a monologue storytelling...