Visual art, music, architecture, performing arts, and the creative forces shaping Arizona’s cultural identity.
Composer Zina Goldrich has spent nearly two decades developing “Ever After,” a revisionist Cinderella story powered by human courage rather than magic — and Phoenix Theatre Company’s brand-new Stephenson Theatre is finally giving it the stage it deserves.
At 76, Phoenix singer-songwriter Sarah James is releasing original music, running a globally followed vintage guitar series, and donating Waylon Jennings’ Stratocaster to the MIM — proof that some stories take a lifetime to get started.
Adopted from Bulgaria and raised in Anthem, baritone Jacob Soulliere carries the Phoenix Boys Choir, the Boulder Creek choir risers and the mentors who shaped him to Carnegie Hall and the San Francisco Conservatory — and wherever the music takes him next.
Beyond its celebrated concert season, Arizona Musicfest quietly serves more than 5,000 people a year through Music Alive! — a year-round program of free seminars, instrument classes and community connection that has become the organization’s most essential work.
At Jubilate Conservatory of Music in Carefree’s Spanish Village, founder Laya Field is building something rare: a multigenerational musical community where toddlers discover rhythm, teenagers compose original works and everyone finds a seat at the table.
For three decades, architect C.P. Drewett has quietly shifted the North Valley’s architectural language from Mediterranean enclosure to transparent desert modernism — one precise, philosophical detail at a time.
Five of the North Valley’s leading design authorities — spanning architecture, hardscape, and horticulture — define the principles behind luxury outdoor living that erases the line between home and desert.
At Arizona Broadway Theatre, scenic designer Clifton Chadick and acting technical director Cody Burgoon built two complete worlds — 1990s Hollywood Boulevard and the Beverly Wilshire Hotel — on a single stage, where emotional vision and structural reality negotiate until opening night.
For 50 years, Desert Foothills Theater has shaped careers, built families and proven that a small desert community can sustain serious artistic ambition — and it’s just getting started.
Arizona Musicfest’s 35th Anniversary Season reaches its apex with a theatrical concert production of “Ragtime” starring Broadway and opera luminaries, proving that world-class musical theater doesn’t require a flight to New York.