Recipient of the
American Theatre Wing
National Theatre Company Award
Our Mission
Our mission is to create the highest quality theatre possible,
challenging, stretching, and invigorating our community. We emphasize
LANGUAGE by placing primary value on quality language and literature,
ENSEMBLE by developing performers who seek continuous improvement and
creating an academy for training ourselves and emerging theatre artists, and
CHALLENGING IDEAS by presenting plays which offer complex and provocative
points of view related to important social, political, and personal issues.
NOW ON STAGE
Photo by Tim Fuller ©2026
The River
by Jez Butterworth
PRODUCTION SPONSORS:
Andy Watson
Karen DeLay & Bill Sandel
Directed by Christopher Johnson
Music Direction by Russell Ronnebaum
February 20–March 15, 2026
Friday & Saturday 7:30 P.M.,
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 P.M.
A piece of timeless and haunting chamber theatre, The River captures a moment on a river, a fisherman, a woman, another woman—but are they really there? Memories or ghosts?
NEXT AT THE ROGUE
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
PRODUCTION SPONSORS:
Clay Shirk
Paul Winick & Ronda Lustman
Directed by Cynthia Meier
Music Direction by Russell Ronnebaum
April 24–May 17, 2026
Friday & Saturday 7:30 P.M.,
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 P.M.
The classic tale of Prospero and his daughter Miranda and their effort to escape their enchanted island. The mature Shakespeare revisits magic with profound verse and invitations for striking theatrical effects.
Please join us for The Rogue Theatre’s
“Do the right thing.”
Sponsored by Andy Watson
Five-play season packages are now available
Individual tickets go on sale in early August
A Doll’s House
by Henrik Ibsen
adapted by Amy Herzog
September 4–27, 2026
All My Sons
by Arther Miller
October 30–November 22, 2026
Equus
by Peter Shaffer
January 8–31, 2027
Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley
February 19–March 14, 2027
Cymbeline
by William Shakespeare
April 23–May 16, 2027
The John & Joyce Ambruster Play-Reading Series
2025–2026
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
adapted by Marilyn Campbell & Curt Columbus
2 PM Saturday, March 28, 2026
2 PM Sunday, March 29, 2026
Shining City
by Conor McPherson
2 PM Saturday, May 23, 2026
2 PM Sunday, May 24, 2026
The John & Joyce Ambruster Play-Reading Series
2026–2027
Four-reading subscription packages are now on sale.
Individual tickets for Rhinoceros will go on sale July 1,
and tickets for the other three readings will go on sale in August.
The Language Archive
by Julia Cho
2 PM Saturday, March 27, 2027
2 PM Sunday, March 28, 2027
Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
adapted by Tom Wright
2 PM Saturday, May 22, 2027
2 PM Sunday, May 23, 2027
Rhinoceros
by Eugène Ionesco
translated by Derek Prouse
2 PM Saturday, July 18, 2026
2 PM Sunday, July 19, 2026
Love and The Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Short stories by Anton Chekov
translated by Constance Garnett
2 PM Saturday, October 3, 2026
2 PM Sunday, October 4, 2026
The Rogue Theatre 2024–2025 Season Retrospective
A video montage of the many plays, play-readings, open talks, and interviews that made up our 20th Anniversary Season at The Rogue Theatre! Featuring Russell Ronnebaum (piano) and Linda Ackermann (accordion) performing “The Jolly Caballero” from the musical pre-show to our November 2024 production of Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, adapted by John Capecci.
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Our 20 Year History, 2005–2025
A history of The Rogue Theatre on the eve of its 20th Anniversary Season, with a photo from every play we've produced since 2005 and some of the remarkable milestones achieved along the way. Photos by Tim Fuller.
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20th Anniversary Season Coloring Book
Illustrations by Christopher Johnson
from photographs by Tim Fuller
Purchase a coloring book and pick it up at the box office or have it mailed to you for an additional cost.
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300 East University Boulevard, Suite 150
Tucson, Arizona 85705-8033
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I am constantly amazed by [The Rogue Theatre’s] creativity and ability to show our human propensities and mysteries in such a way as to catch our souls.
— Dottie Davis, audience member
The Rogue in Action!
Enjoy audio storytelling with Rogue Radio, and watching The Rogue in action on video with backstage tours and stop-motion animation!
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