THEATRE Performances This Week ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE. UA Marroney Theatre. Located in the Fine Arts Complex, southeast corner of Speedway and Park Avenue. Opening March 12 and continuing through March 30: Tennessee Williams' Night of The Iguana. Preview performances are 2 p.m. March 9, and 7:30 p.m. March 10. Performances are 8 p.m. March 12 through 15 and 25 through 29; and at 2 p.m. March 16, 29 and 30. Preview tickets are $7. Regular performance tickets range from $8 to $15, with discounts for seniors, UA employees and students. Tickets are available through the UA Fine Arts box office. Call 621-1162 for tickets and information. ARIZONA THEATRE CO. 330 S. Scott Ave. 622-2823. Opening March 7 and continuing through March 22: Tony Kushner's The Illusion, an adaptation of Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique. Tickets range from $18 to $27 for evening and weekend matinee performances, available at the ATC and Dillard's box offices. For reservations and information, call 622-2823. Call 884-4877 for show times and information only. LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP. Tucson Center for the Performing Arts. 408 S. Sixth Ave. 792-8480. Opening March 7 and continuing weekends through March 16: John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $7, available at the ATC box office, 622-2823, and all Dillard's outlets. Call 327-4242 for information. MAT BEVEL INSTITUTE. 530 N. Stone Ave. Opening March 7 and continuing with weekend performances through March 16: The Mat Bevel Institute Surrealistic Pop Science Theater presents Artificial Heart. Performances are at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6, available at the Institute. Call 571-8202 for information. Continuing ARIZONA YOUTH THEATRE. 5671 E. Speedway. 546-9805. Continuing weekends through March 22: Sleeping Beauty. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday, and 11 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday. Production is most appropriate for ages 4 and up. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for children, with free tickets available to non-profit organizations. Call 546-9805 for reservations and information. GASLIGHT THEATRE. 7010 E. Broadway. 886-9428. Continuing through March 22: Girl of the Golden West, or No Noose Is Good News, a Western musical comedy from a rugged Arizona mining camp, where a notorious outlaw finds redemption in the love of a good woman. Regular show times are 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12.95, $10.95 for seniors/students/active military, and $6 for children. Reservations are required. Call 886-9428 for information. INVISIBLE THEATRE. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721. Continuing through March 16: guest artist Norma Jean Darden in Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine. Tickets are $20. Performances are at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Call 882-9721 for reservations and information. TEATRO AZTLAN. Sunnyside High School. 1725 E. Bilby Road. 741-2400. Continuing through March 7: Sunnyside High School's Teatro Aztlan presents Up the Down Staircase. Show time is 7 p.m. Tickets are $2, available in the auditorium prior to the performance. Call 741-2400 for information. Announcements AUDITION NOTICE. The Mercury Theatre Company, a new Tucson based, not-for-profit theatre company, announces auditions for its June productions of Measure for Measure and The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare. Auditions will be in the meeting room on the ground floor of Tucson-Pima Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave., from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 16, and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 17. Actors of all ages are required for this exciting new theatrical venture. Please prepare a short classical monologue (two minutes or less) and bring along a résumé and current photograph. Address enquiries to Gary, at 721-1079. AUDITION NOTICE. Live Theatre Workshop seeks two men and four women for their upcoming production of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart. Auditions are 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 9, at the Tucson Center for the Performing Arts, 408 S. Sixth Ave. Participants will be asked to perform a two-minute monologue, read from the script, and bring a picture and résumé. Call 327-4242 for information. AUDITION NOTICE. 5671 E. Speedway. 546-9805. Arizona Youth Theatre will have open auditions for performers ages 3 through adult, from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6, for their upcoming "Talent Show." Come prepared with a song, dance, monologue, scene, juggling act, comedy routine, etc. Call 546-9805 for information. BLACK WOMEN'S TASK FORCE. Invisible Theatre. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721. The Tucson Black Women's Task Force, courtesy of The Edmonds Group, invites you to a special presentation of Norma Jean Darden's Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 12. Tickets are $20, $36 for couples, and proceeds from this performance will benefit the Black Women's Task Force Conference in May. Call Deborah Boykins, 885-6720; Ann Fortune Gamble, 293-2978; or Edria Johnson, 296-5370 for tickets and information. SCREEN ACTORS GUILD. The Arizona Branch of the Screen Actors Guild is easing its membership eligibility requirements through May 31. Call 1-602-265-2712 or 1-800-308-2712 for eligibility requirements and fees. TEMPLE FOR RENT. The Temple of Music and Art and the Tucson Center for the Performing Arts have rental space available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Call 884-8210 for more information. TEMPLE TOURS. See the Alice Holsclaw and Cabaret theaters and all the behind-the-scenes areas you've wondered about. Enjoy free guided tours at 11 a.m. Saturdays starting in the courtyard of the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. Reservations are not required. Call 884-8210 for information and tour availability.

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