On Friday, May 24, Sedona is turning Blue once again for the “Blues in the Red Rocks” at the Mary Fisher Theater at 7 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the Northern Arizona Blues Alliance (NAZBA). The intimate Friday night concert features two premier blues acts: Kyle Rowland and Big Daddy D and the Dynamites. Kyle Rowland “Blues harmonica player of the year” and “Blues New Artist of The Year” in 2009 from the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame, Kyle Rowland, has been dominating the stage since the tender age of 10 years old. Beginning his career, sitting in and receiving lessons from the hit Sacramento band, Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers. For 7 years, Kyle quickly and naturally developed his own sound. With help from a few of his heroes such as James Cotton, Hubert Sumlin, Matt “Guitar” Murphy and many others, Kyle learned specific techniques of stage presence, the music business, and several highly revered harmonica secrets.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world to present the world premiere of “Chicago & Friends in Concert” showing April 18-21 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. Experience the electrifying performance of the Grammy-winning rock band, Chicago, at Ovation Hall. Joining them on stage are an impressive lineup of special guests, including Grammy-nominee R&B vocalist Robin Thicke, rock superstar Chris Daughtry, renowned guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, the harmonious a cappella quintet VoicePlay, pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph, Grammy-winning songstress Judith Hill, and the acclaimed Bules guitarist & vocalist Christone “KINGFISH” Ingram. Together, they create a sensational musical collaboration that promises an unforgettable night of entertainment. This concert film is a rock lover’s dream!

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Monday Movies on Main” on Monday, April 22 with the Cottonwood premiere of “Chicago & Friends in Concert” at 7 p.m. at Old Town Center for the Arts. Experience the electrifying performance of the Grammy-winning rock band, Chicago, at Ovation Hall. Joining them on stage are an impressive lineup of special guests, including Grammy-nominee R&B vocalist Robin Thicke, rock superstar Chris Daughtry, renowned guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, the harmonious a cappella quintet VoicePlay, pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph, Grammy-winning songstress Judith Hill, and the acclaimed Bules guitarist & vocalist Christone “KINGFISH” Ingram. Together, they create a sensational musical collaboration that promises an unforgettable night of entertainment. This concert film is a rock lover’s dream!

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present “Monday Movies on Main” on Monday, April 29 with the Cottonwood premiere of “Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot” at 7 p.m. at Old Town Center for the Arts. Robert Shields — who has lived in the Verde Valley for many years — will be in attendance at the premiere and will host a Q&A discussion following the film. “Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot” was the top award-winning film at the recent Sedona International Film Festival, garnering both the Audience Choice Best of Fest Award and the Marion Herrman Award for Excellence in Filmmaking. "No words" can describe him — literally. Robert Shields is one of the most unique performers of the 20th century. He has earned proclamations and awards; has performed for two Presidents and a Queen; gained the admiration of many of Hollywood's greats — and he has done it all without saying a word!

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Theatrikos Theatre Company to bring movies to Downtown Flagstaff! This series continues on Monday, May 20 with the Flagstaff premiere of “Remembering Gene Wilder” at 7:00 p.m. at Theatrikos Theatre Company. This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in “The Producers”, to the enigmatic title role in the original “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like “Silver Streak”. It is illustrated by a bevy of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes, never-before-seen home movies, narration from Wilder’s audiobook memoir, and interviews with a roster of brilliant friends and collaborators like Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, and Carol Kane.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Theatrikos Theatre Company to bring movies to Downtown Flagstaff! This series continues on Wednesday, May 22 with the Flagstaff premiere of “Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot” at 7:00 p.m. at Theatrikos Theatre Company. Robert Shields — who has lived in the Verde Valley for many years — will be in attendance at the premiere and will host a Q&A discussion following the film. “Robert Shields: My Life as a Robot” was the top award-winning film at the recent Sedona International Film Festival, garnering both the Audience Choice Best of Fest Award and the Marion Herrman Award for Excellence in Filmmaking. "No words" can describe him — literally. Robert Shields is one of the most unique performers of the 20th century. He has earned proclamations and awards; has performed for two Presidents and a Queen; gained the admiration of many of Hollywood's greats — and he has done it all without saying a word!

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Theatrikos Theatre Company to bring movies to Downtown Flagstaff! This series continues on Wednesday, May 29 with the Flagstaff premiere of “The Taste of Things” at 7:00 p.m. at Theatrikos Theatre Company. “The Taste of Things” — starring Juliette Binoche — was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature (France). Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her. “A feast for the senses. Juliette Binoche is luminous. Food is a gift of love here — and romance courses through this delightful film.” — Time Out “Lusciously tender.” — Variety "A celebration of people’s desire for everything that’s beautiful and fleeting in life.” — Slant Magazine

Matthew Modine, Sean Astin and Cynthia Kaye McWilliams star in the powerful uplifting journey “Hard Miles”. A strong-willed social worker at a youth facility assembles an unlikely cycling team of juvenile convicts and takes them on a transformative 1000-mile bike ride. “Hard Miles” tells the uplifting true story of the bicycling team at Rite of Passage’s RidgeView Academy, a medium-security correctional school in Colorado. The film follows beleaguered coach Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine) as he rounds up an unlikely crew of incarcerated students for a seemingly impossible bike ride from Denver to the Grand Canyon. As the beginner bicyclists battle heatstroke, speed wobbles, and the greatest enemy of all cyclists — a chafed crotch — they must learn to stop fighting and ride together as a peloton. The bicycle serves not just as a means of transportation, but as a test; a way for each of these young men to see what they are truly capable of, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Johnny Depp stars as King Louis XV in the story of the entrancing Jeanne du Barry, a French peasant woman whose meteoric rise through the royal court to become the King’s last mistress creates a scandal of epic proportions. “Jeanne du Barry” is based on a true story. “Jeanne du Barry” follows Jeanne Vaubernier (Maïwenn), a working-class woman determined to climb the social ladder, using her charms to escape her impoverished life. Her lover, the Comte du Barry (Melvil Poupaud), wishes to present her to King Louis XV (Johnny Depp) and orchestrates a meeting through the influential Duke of Richelieu (Pierre Richard). The encounter goes far beyond his expectations for it was love at first sight for the King and Jeanne. Through this ravishing courtesan, the king rediscovers his appetite for life and feels he can no longer live without her. Making Jeanne his last official mistress, scandal erupts as no one at Court will accept a girl from the streets into their rarified world.

Sedona International Film Festival presents the Exhibition on Screen series with “John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger”. The film will premiere in Sedona on Tuesday and Sunday, April 16 and 21 at the festival’s Alice Gill-Sheldon Sheldon Theatre. John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion. Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive personalities, power dynamics and gender identities during this fascinating period of cultural reinvention.

After the death of the love of his life, English archaeologist Arthur (Josh O’Connor) is desperate to find the mythical door to the afterlife — but to do so, he must team up with a network of tomb raiders who break into ancient tombs in search of archaeological wonders to sell on the black market. Everyone has their own Chimera — something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli — thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders — the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth – in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join cinemas around the world to present the global premiere of “Macbeth” on May 2 and 5 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. Tony and BAFTA Award winner Ralph Fiennes and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma star in a brand-new full-voltage visceral production of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”. Filmed live at Dock X, a custom-built theatre space in London, this critically-acclaimed staging of Macbeth will be unmissable on the big screen. Directed by Simon Godwin with set and costume design by Frankie Bradshaw, this is a cinematic and beautifully staged production that brings Shakespeare’s tragedy pulsing into the present day. Macbeth is coming. A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception, and superstition in cinemas for a limited time only. Once you cross the line, you can never turn back.

“Marguerite’s Theorem” won the Audience Choice Award for Best International Feature Film at the recent Sedona International Film Festival. It is returning to Sedona by popular demand. The trajectory of Marguerite’s future, a brilliant Mathematics student at the esteemed Ecole Normale Supérieure, appears meticulously charted. As the sole woman in her cohort, she nears completion of her thesis, anticipating the culmination of years of dedicated effort with an audience of researchers. On the crucial day, an unexpected error disrupts her well-laid plans, causing the unraveling of all her certainties and the collapse of her foundational aspirations. Faced with this pivotal moment, Marguerite resolves to abandon her current path entirely and embarks on a journey to redefine and reconstruct her life anew.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Theatrikos Theatre Company to present “Men on Boats” live on stage at Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood on Sunday, June 9 at 2 p.m. “Men on Boats” is a nationally produced show about JW Powell’s first trip through the Grand Canyon. The play was written by Jacklyn Backhaus, and this production is directed by Sara Bendel Ryan. No men. No boats. One canyon. John Wesley Powell’s first trip down the Colorado. Highlighting underrepresented voices and inspired by Powell’s actual travel logs, this whitewater comedy is history as you’ve never seen it before — infusing America’s historic myths with a sly blast of satire. Join us for some laughs and an afternoon of fun enjoying live theatre! “Men on Boats” will take the stage live at Old Town Center for the Arts in Cottonwood on Sunday, June 9 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $24 general admission, $22 for members and seniors and $18 for students. For tickets and more information,

Puccini’s bittersweet love story makes a rare Met appearance, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the sophisticated French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman in his company debut as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess. Maestro Speranza Scappucci conducts Nicolas Joël’s Art Deco-inspired staging, which transports audiences from the heart of Parisian nightlife to a dreamy vision of the French Riviera. Soprano Emily Pogorelc and tenor Bekhzod Davronov — both making their Met debuts — complete the cast as Lisette and Prunier.

In her Met debut, Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the trusting geisha at the heart of Puccini’s tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman is the callous American naval officer Pinkerton whose betrayal destroys her. Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong is the steadfast maid Suzuki, and baritone Lucas Meachem is the American consul Sharpless. Acclaimed maestro Xian Zhang makes her Met debut conducting Anthony Minghella’s vivid production.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theatres around the world to present the one-day-only global premiere of “Miracles at the Movies: Locke + Signorelli” showing Tuesday, April 23 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Firebrand pastors Greg Locke and Mike Signorelli merge condensed versions of their groundbreaking films, “Come Out in Jesus Name” and “Domino Revival”, infused with an unprecedented prophetic activation for this special two-hour event. Both documentary films were among the top-grossing faith-based theatrical releases of 2023, with audience scores at Rotten Tomatoes of 95% and 99% respectively. Now, through this high-energy condensed format, theater audiences can experience the passion and the power of both films while receiving a fresh prophetic word from Locke and Signorelli as they stand for Christ high above New York City.

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the acclaimed new production of “Phantom: The Musical Film” showing on Sunday and Tuesday, May 12 and 14 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Phantom: The Musical Film” was captured live from the Charlotte Theater in South Korea. Featuring K-Pop sensation Super Junior’s Kyuhyun, world renowned soprano Sunhae Im and world class ballerina Joowon Kim, this lavish Korean production of Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit’s, “Phantom”, is an eye-dazzling and ear-pleasing take on Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel “The Phantom of the Opera''. Paris, Late 19th century. Gifted with musical genius and cursed with a monstrous face, Erik lives in hiding deep in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera House. When he hears Christine Daaé's angelic voice, he is determined to make her the new diva. Carlotta, the opera house's resident diva, is overcome with jealousy and devises a plan to ruin Christine's debut performance.

French-Algerian acoustic guitar virtuoso, vocalist and composer Pierre Bensusan has taken his unique sound to all corners of the globe. And now, he is making a Sedona stop on his world tour Saturday, April 27 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. Winner of the Independent Music Award for his triple live album "Encore", voted Best World Music Guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine reader’s Poll, winner of the Rose d’Or at the Montreux Festival for his debut album, Pierre is recognized as one of the greatest guitar players of the 21st century. Born in Oran, French-Algeria, in 1957, when France was decolonizing its Empire, Pierre Bensusan's family moved to Paris when he was 4. He began formal studies on piano at the age of 7 and at 11 taught himself guitar.

Theatre will be closed for a private event.