It's A Wonderful Life
11/13 - 12/23/2024
It's A Wonderful Life November 13 - December 23, 2024 A DBFRT annual tradition! Based on the film by Frank Capra Directed by Cheryl Schaar ...
DONE TO DEATH
1/16 - 2/21/2025
Directed by Van Rockwell In this crowd-pleasing comedy, once-famous mystery writers are brought together to collaborate on a new murder mystery TV show! The five eccentric ...
THE RAINMAKER
3/20 - 4/26/2025
Directed by Diedra Celeste Miranda A classic story of faith, hope and dreams. Set in a time of a paralyzing drought in Depression-era America, The Rainmaker ...
LEADING LADIES
5/15 - 6/21/2025
Directed by Cheryl Schaar In this hilarious comedy, two English Shakespearean actors, Leo and Jack, find themselves so down on their luck that they’re performing "Scenes ...
HEAVEN CAN WAIT
7/10 - 8/16/2025
Directed by Diedra Celeste Miranda As guardian angel Mr. Jordan is checking passengers who are to depart for the Hereafter, the routine is interrupted by the ...
CRAZY FOR YOU
9/5 - 10/17/2025
Director to be Announced City slicker falls for hometown girl in this zany, ebullient romantic comedy featuring cowboys, showgirls, high-energy production numbers, and a glorious ...
It's A Wonderful Life
11/13 - 12/23/2025
Based on the 1947 film by Frank Capra which is based on the 1943 short story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern Directed ...
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Under Lee Cooley's adroit direction, Jeffrey Hatcher's HOLMES AND WATSON is a fast paced and entertaining romp towards an entirely unanticipated climax....
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by Herbert Paine - February 05, 2024
Under Diedra Celeste Miranda’s fast-paced, robust, and thoroughly entertaining direction, Don Bluth Front Row Theatre's production of JOHN LOVES MARY is a fun affair. The show runs through March 2nd....
The Bridge Initiative Announces Leadership Transition and LEANING IN Cabaret
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Review: ON GOLDEN POND at Don Bluth Front Row Theatre
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The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Phoenix Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....
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Past Shows
Anastasia
9/12 - 10/26/2024
Anastasia September 12 - October 26, 2024 Book by Terrence McNally Music by Stephen Flaherty Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Don Bluth directs the Broadway Musical inspired ...
God's Favorite
7/18 - 8/24/2024
God's Favorite July 18 - August 24, 2024 by Neil Simon Directed by Van Rockwell Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day "Job"; with a ...
The Last Romance
5/16 - 6/21/2024
The Last Romance May 16 - June 21, 2024 by Joe DiPietro Directed by Cheryl Schaar Love can make anyone feel young again, even an ...
Holmes And Watson
3/21 - 4/27/2024
Holmes and Watson March 21 - April 27, 2024 by Jeffrey Hatcher Directed by Lee Cooley A twisting, tantalizing mystery! Sherlock Holmes is dead, or ...
John Loves Mary
1/25 - 3/1/2024
John Loves Mary January 25 - March 2, 2024 by Norman Krasna Directed by Diedra Celeste Miranda One of the most charming and romantic 1940’s ...
It's a Wonderful Life
11/16 - 12/30/2023
The beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life on the DBFRT stage. Based on the 1946 Frank Capra film, the story of idealistic George ...
Damn Yankees
9/21 - 10/28/2023
Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd, makes a deal with the Devil, a.k.a. Mr. Applegate, for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the ...
On Golden Pond
7/27 - 9/2/2023
Retired New England professor Norman Thayer and his spirited wife Ethel return to their summer home on the shores of idyllic Golden Pond for the ...
Ben Butler
5/18 - 7/8/2023
BEN BUTLER is part comedy, part history and completely captivating. When an escaped slave shows up at Fort Monroe demanding sanctuary, General Benjamin Butler is faced ...
Steel Magnolias
3/23 - 4/29/2023
At Truvy’s beauty salon you can always get the best hair ‘do — and the best gossip! A tight-knit group of Louisiana women gather regularly ...
Drinking Habits 2: Caught in the Act
1/26 - 3/4/2023
The Sisters of Perpetual Sewing miss the excitement of the old days when they were saving convents and reuniting long-lost families. So, when they learn ...
It's a Wonderful Life
11/17 - 12/30/2022
A DBFRT annual tradition! Directed by ZoniAward-winner, Cheryl Schaar. The beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life on the DBFRT stage. Based on the ...
Exit Laughing
9/15 - 10/22/2022
Directed by Van Rockwell. When the biggest highlight in your life for the past 30 years has been your weekly bridge night with the "girls," ...
Private Lives
7/21 - 8/27/2022
PRIVATE LIVES is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Written by Noel Coward and directed by animator and theatre owner Don Bluth, ...
The Curious Savage
5/19 - 6/25/2022
In this heartwarming comedy, written by John Patrick and directed by Zoni Award-winner Cheryl Schaar, Mrs. Savage, an elderly widow, inherits a fortune which she ...
Camelot
3/24 - 4/30/2022
The legendary love triangle of King Arthur, Guenevere and Sir Lancelot leaps from the pages of T.H. Whites novel in Lerner and Loewes award-winning, soaring ...
Drinking Habits
2/3 - 2/26/2022
A Hysterical Farce by Tom SmithDirected by Van RockwellAccusations, mistaken identities, and romances run wild in this traditional, laugh-out-loud farce. Two nuns at the Sisters ...
It's a Wonderful Life
11/18 - 12/30/2021
A beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life on the DBFRT stage. Based on the 1946 Frank Capra film, the story of idealistic George ...
Bell, Book, and Candle
9/30 - 11/6/2021
Just in time for Halloween season! Before there was "Bewitched", before "Wicked" and "Harry Potter", there was BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE. Gillian is a beautiful ...
A Bench in the Sun
8/12 - 9/18/2021
DBFRT brings back favorites Lee Cooley, Jim Coates and Donna Kaufman to reprise their roles in a remount of this comedy! Harold and Burt, longtime ...
Kill Socrates, A Comedy
6/17 - 7/24/2021
Socrates. Must. Die. At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this is a roller-coaster ride through one of historys most famous minds ending in one of historys ...
The Curious Savage
3/12 - 4/25/2020
The Curious Savage, which premiered in 1950, brings the sweet charm of that period along with the social satire that accompanied it. Mrs. Savage’s greedy ...
Deathtrap
5/16 - 6/29/2019
Ira Levin Don Bluth Front Row Theatre...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
2/23 - 4/1/2017
Fiddler on the Roof is the heartwarming story of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, and life, love and laughter. This classic musical is rich ...
Bullets Over Broadway
5/5 - 5/28/2016
Bullets Over Broadway tells the story of an aspiring young playwright who is forced to cast a mobster’s talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in ...
Once Upon a Mattress
4/1 - 4/30/2016
Princess Winnifred arrives at Prince Dauntless the Drab's castle hoping for the hand of the prince. His mother, Queen Agravain, insists that her son can ...
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
2/25 - 3/26/2016
A middle-aged, overweight and married restaurant owner tries to join the sexual revolution in three separate affairs that fall flat in Neil Simon's comedy....
It's A Wonderful Life
11/19 - 12/30/2015
George Bailey comes from the small town of Bedford Falls. His dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty. ...
The Producers
1/7 - 12/13/2015
Max Bialystock, the onetime king of Broadway producers hungry to strike it rich, and Leo Bloom, an accountant with dreams of someday becoming a theatre ...
Mary Poppins
10/1 - 11/7/2015
The practically perfect Mary Poppins arrives to nanny the Banks children and, with some help from the chimney-sweep, Bert, ends up turning the family's world ...
Charley's Aunt
8/18 - 9/26/2015
Jack Chesney is in love with Kitty Verdun. Charles Wykeham is in love with Amy Spettigue. The girls have been invited to lunch to meet ...
South Pacific
8/13 - 9/19/2015
Nellie, a nurse on a Pacific Island during WWII, falls in love with Emile de Becque, a local planter. However, when she learns he has ...
Barefoot in the Park
1/16 - 2/22/2014
Set in the early 60s: we follow the lives of newlyweds Paul and Corie Bratter as they move into a small apartment in New York ...
Videos
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Life As Joby
Actors PLAYground (12/6 - 12/7) | |
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The Tempest
Arizona Theatre Matters (10/5 - 12/31) | |
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DONE TO DEATH
Don Bluth Front Row Theatre (1/16 - 2/21) | |
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HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Don Bluth Front Row Theatre (7/10 - 8/16) | |
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Comic Concert
Combs Performing Arts Center (5/9 - 5/9) | |
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Stories Of The Season
Combs Performing Arts Center (12/14 - 12/14) | |
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Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B
Arizona Theatre Company (6/14 - 6/29) | |
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