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Song Sung Blue It would be hard, for me at least, not to like Song Sung Blue, a jukebox musical about love and family set against the backdrop of working-class show business. It’s based on the true story of Mike and Claire Sardina, small-potatoes entertainers who launched a Neil Diamond tribute act together they called Lightning & Thunder in Milwaukee in the ’90s. Charismatic performers, they built their own regional following, eventually packing houses, playing...

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Although the Grammy Awards – scheduled for February 1 this year – are held in Los Angeles, the nominees hail from across the country, including Phoenix. Here are the 2026 contenders with connections to the Valley. 

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The Marty in Marty Supreme is Marty Mauser, a Lower East Side kid in the early ’50s. The supremacy in question is at – of all things – table tennis, or ping-pong. He is already an insolently prodigal talent at the sport, with designs on becoming a world champ. Marty himself wouldn’t limit his supremacy merely to table tennis; he’s already intolerably cocksure about his ability to do pretty much anything he wants. Even though he could,...