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.
NEXT AT THE ROGUE
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?
Please join us for The Rogue Theatre’s
“What’s going on here?”
Sponsored by Sally Krusing
The River
by Jez Butterworth
February 20–March 15, 2026
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
April 24–May 17, 2026
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 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.
The Rogue Theatre at The Historic Y
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!
LATEST: Charles Dickens’ The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton on Rogue Radio