Return home to the messy, complicated realities of family life as writer-director Ed Burns examines the dreams deferred and bonds tested across generations. Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies is an intimate portrait of a household caught between stagnation and awakening. Jim and Tina have settled into the rhythms of middle age: beer, martinis, dinner, worried conversations about their adult children who refuse to leave. Frankie and Debbie, both in their twenties, remain at home, one scraping by in a doomed sales job, the other contentedly unemployed and dating someone their father despises. Shot in striking black and white, the film captures what feels like a snapshot of suburban routine until an unspoken restlessness inside Tina begins to surface, threatening to shatter the fragile equilibrium that holds them all in place. Written and directed by Edward Burns and featuring Jennifer Ehle, Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies is a film about the spaces between expectation and reality, about the dreams we surrender and the fierce love that persists even when everything feels stuck, live at Marroney Theatre. Stay after the screening for an exclusive discussion with the director. Ed Burns is best known for his award-winning independent film debut, The Brothers McMullen, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as directing and starring in Bridge & Tunnel, Public Morals, She’s the One, Sidewalks of New York, and appearing in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan alongside features in Entourage, Will & Grace, Mob City, and Amazing Stories.Joining him is producer Aaron Lubin, Burns’ longtime producing partner at Marlboro Road Gang Productions. Lubin’s producing credits include The Brothers McMullen, The Groomsmen, Something Borrowed, Newlyweds, and The Fitzgerald Family Christmas.

Step into a world of breathtaking illusions and unforgettable storytelling as Scottish illusionist Scott Silven invites you to explore the mysterious side of what it means to be human. The Lost Things is a journey through wonder, memory, and the strange beauty hidden inside the things we lose. Created and performed by celebrated illusionist Scott Silven and directed by Graham McLaren, the show weaves awe-inspiring illusions together with a deeply personal narrative to create something that feels less like a magic show and more like a profound shared experience. Silven believes theatre is where we gather to witness the impossible together, and The Lost Things is built entirely around that belief. Designed by Jamie Vartan and featuring illusions that have left audiences genuinely speechless, The Lost Things has earned a reputation as one of the most moving and inventive shows of its kind. Arizona Arts Live is a proud co-commissioner of this production, making Tucson part of the story of this remarkable work. This is an evening that will make you look at memory, loss, and the surprising places where wonder lives differently. Experience Scott Silven live at Marroney Theatre.

Former Kronos Quartet member Jeffrey Zeigler and composer Paola Prestini transform four poets’ verses into dreamscapes of music, movement, and film. Houses of Zodiac: Poems for Cello brings word, movement, music, and image together to illuminate the verses of four poets: Pablo Neruda, Brenda Shaughnessy, Natasha Trethewey, and Anaïs Nin. Zeigler performs Prestini’s luminous score while New York City Ballet soloist “Rogue Ballerina” Georgina Pazcoguin and Butoh dancer and Sankai Juku member Dai Matsuoka bring their own choreographies to life. The latency of the poems is refracted through music, dance, and archival images, each perspective curated into an anthology of four interwoven short films directed by Murat Eyuboglu. The composite work draws inspiration from sources as diverse as the choreography of Samuel Beckett, the conceptual art of Sol LeWitt, and the natural world itself. Strings Magazine lauded the recorded version as “one of the greatest and most ambitious solo cello albums of all time,” and this live iteration transforms that vision into an immersive experience where bodies, sound, and image move together in perfect synchronicity. From intimate sketches on love to a Pacific ritual, from the troubled streets of New Orleans to a surreal galactic journey through Anaïs Nin’s dreamscape, each section explores solitude, agency, conflict, and ultimately emancipation.