Arizona Theatre Company
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The Arizona Theatre Company is a professional regional theatre company operating in both Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. The company has been known as the official "State Theatre of Arizona" since 1978. It performs a season of six productions at two theatres--the only League of Resident Theatres member to do so--at the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson and the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix.
ATC was founded in 1966 as the Arizona Civic Theatre and performed in the basement -of the old Santa Rita Hotel in Tucson. Our ambitious first season, under the leadership of founding Artistic Director Sandy Rosenthal, included the then-new musical The Fantasticks, Sartre’s No Exit and Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge and set the standard for excellence and variety in programming which ATC has upheld for the last 39 years under artistic directors Rosenthal (1966-77), Mark Lamos (1978-79), Gary Gisselman (1980 – 91) and David Ira Goldstein (1992-present). In 1972, the company achieved full professional status and became a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). In 1978, we began producing a portion of the season in Phoenix. One year later, our name was changed to Arizona Theatre Company and we began producing all of our programming in both Phoenix and Tucson. In 1983, ATC received a Presidential Citation for our unique two city operation and in 1990 was designated the State Theatre of Arizona by Governor Rose Mofford.
