Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes directed by Pamela Sterling

MainStage celebrates Arizona Centennial by spotlighting untold stories and an imagined future of our state

Feb. 10, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 11, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 12, 2012, 2 p.m.

Feb. 16, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 17, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 18, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 19, 2012, 2 p.m.

Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
School of Theatre and Film
Location: Lyceum Theatre
Campus: Tempe
Cost: $8-$16

The untold history and imagined future of Arizona as a state — and a state of mind — is explored in this dramatic exploration that uses old-fashioned storytelling and music combined with cutting-edge digital images and spoken-word performances. Part of the Arizona Centennial Project New Works Series. Directed by Pam Sterling.

Figures from Arizona’s history – including Lozen, a female Apache warrior who fought with Geronimo, and modern day warrior Lori Ann Piestewa, the first US military woman killed in Iraq -- are among the Arizonans whose lives are retold in the MainStage Season production of Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes.

Untold Stories/Unsung Heroes tells the most poetic, comedic and iconic stories that were unearthed over the past year by a dedicated team of ASU theatre students. Under the direction of Pamela Sterling, professor at the School of Theatre and Film, the stories were culled from thousands of archival sources and from interviews with contemporary Arizonans including a group of centenarians from the Pioneer Village in Prescott and the students' friends, neighbors and relatives.

The stories were woven into the new play, which is part of the Arizona Centennial Project New Works Series and is an official selection of the Arizona Centennial Commemoration Project.