October 10, 2024 / Modified oct 10, 2024 6:56 a.m.

Political satire that has aged like wine: Mols and Suz - Together Again One Night Only!

Also on Arizona Spotlight: The 3rd Annual Chinese Chorizo Festival celebrates culture, community and food; and Tucson native Jeff Biggers on co-writing "Disturbing the Bones".

mols and suz 3 hero Molly McKasson and Susan Claassen performed comedy and improv skits as “Mols and Suz” throughout the mid 1970’s and 1980’s. Now they are reviving their sketch comedy for one night at Invisible Theater on Oct. 15.
courtesy of Molly McKasson and Susan Claassen

Arizona Spotlight

October 10, 2024

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Featured on the October 10th, 2024 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

  • Find out how the 3rd annual Chinese Chorizo Festival is celebrating the people, history and the food of Southern Arizona’s Chinese pioneers, and the lasting connections that they forged with the Mexican community in Tucson’s Barrio district.

feng feng chorizo hero Feng-Feng Yeh is the founder of the Chinese Chorizo Project.
Photo by Julius Scholsburg

marianna feng feng hero Marianna Pegno and Feng-Feng Yeh in AZPM's studio talking about the 3rd annual Chinese Chorizo Festival.
Sophia Hammer

  • Long-time friends Molly McKasson and Susan Claassen have each created lasting legacies in Tucson, and next week they are reviving their sketch comedy act “Mols & Suz” for one night only at the Invisible Theatre. They are even using some of the original scripts they wrote in 1975, which cover political and social issues that are just as relevant today in 2024.

mols and suz 1 hero Molly McKasson and Susan Claassen performed comedy and improv skits as “Mols and Suz” throughout the mid 1970’s and 1980’s. Now they are reviving their sketch comedy for one night at Invisible Theater on Oct. 15.
courtesy of Molly McKasson and Susan Claassen

mols and suz 2 Molly McKasson and Susan Claassen performed comedy and improv skits as “Mols and Suz” throughout the mid 1970’s and 1980’s. Now they are reviving their sketch comedy for one night at Invisible Theater on Oct. 15.
Tim Fuller

  • Tucson native Jeff Biggers is an award-winning historian, journalist, novelist and playwright. His work has appeared on NPR and The Huffington Post, and in The New York Times and The Washington Post. His debut novel “Disturbing the Bones” is a multi-faceted political thriller, co-written with filmmaker Andrew Davis, who directed Harrison Ford in the award-winning movie “The Fugitive”. Biggars will share a reading from the book in advance of the public appearances he will make at the Oro Valley Public Library and The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale.
disturbing the bones portrait The novel "Disturbing the Bones," is co-written by Jeff Biggers and Andrew Davis.
Jeff biggers library portrait Oro Valley Public Library is hosting an author event with former Tucsonan and author Jeff Biggers. This event will take place at the Oro Valley Public Library on Tuesday, Oct. 15 and there will be copies of Biggers' book, "Disturbing the Bones".
courtesy of Oro Valley Public Library

Web page by Sophia Hammer.

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