True West
Category: Event Calendar
Dates and Times
- Wednesday, May 8, 2024 2pm
- Thursday, May 9, 2024 7:30pm
- Friday, May 10, 2024 7:30pm
- Saturday, May 11, 2024 7:30pm
- Saturday, May 11, 2024 2pm
- Sunday, May 12, 2024 3pm
- Wednesday, May 15, 2024 7:30pm
- Thursday, May 16, 2024 2pm
- Friday, May 17, 2024 7:30pm
- Saturday, May 18, 2024 7:30pm
- Saturday, May 18, 2024 2pm
Location
Arizona Theatre Company
330 S Scott Ave
Details
Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer finalist and Tony-nominated play “True West” is a Cain and Abel story of brotherly love and sibling rivalry set against the Dreams of the American West. Successful screenwriter Austin settles in to housesit his mother’s desert home to write his next screenplay, while his brother Lee, an alcoholic drifter, arrives to rob the neighborhood. A hysterically twisted story unfolds as the estranged brothers torment each other until they are forced to collaborate on a screenplay for Austin’s producer with the promise of a huge Hollywood payday. Ultimately reversing roles and finding themselves inside the other’s shoes, the two brothers discover that this town ‘aint big enough for the both of them …