Albuquerque On Stage
In Albuquerque, more theatrical performances take place every
weekend than in any other U.S. city of its size. One of Albuquerque's
busiest times for theater is late winter and early spring. Revolutions International Theatre Festival is put on by Albuquerque's own Tricklock Company, and spans January 12-29, and the Southwest Irish Theater Festival, organized by the Albuquerque Theatre Guild, spans February 10-April 15. It is also a busy time in the seasons of other local theaters such as Popejoy Hall, which brings in primarily touring shows, and Albuquerque Little Theatre, Fusion Theatre Company, Opera Southwest and Duke City Repertory Theatre which feature local productions, and the Albuquerque Theatre Guild, which is an association of over 30 local theaters. Here is a compilation of 2011's January-February theater offerings:
Performers from all over the world come together for this three-week festival. Revolutions, produced by Albuquerque’s own Tricklock Company, highlights the region’s heritage as a cultural crossroad of global exchange and
artistic innovation.
The House of Fitzcaraldo
Dates: January 12, 2012 - January 13, 2012
Time: Thursday at 8, Friday at 10
Tickets: $15-$18
The Box Performance Space
100 Gold Ave SW Suite 112B
Pulling and culling from a myriad of source texts, videos, and dreams, Buran Theatre Company of Kansas City uses its distinctive style to situate itself between high and low culture- creating mayhem, shooting cap guns, prompting sing-a-longs, and integrating a folksy existentialism- to explore our nature as beings who cannot help but desire our own dumb dreams.
Sehnsucht
Dates: January 13, 2012 - January 15, 2012
Time: Friday & Saturday at 8, Sunday at 2
Tickets: $12-$15
UNM Theatre X – UNM Fine Arts Building (lower level below Popejoy Hall)
203 Cornell NE, Albuquerque
Sehnsucht is a funny and touching physical theater performance by Perpetuo Mobile Teatro of Italy/Switzerland with masks and live music. Two characters, dense and extreme, forced into a situation where their freedom of choice and action is severely compromised, are confronted with their wishes.
Roadway Closed to Pedestrians
Dates: January 19, 2012 - January 21, 2012
Time: Thursday & Friday at 8, Saturday at 4.
Tickets: $12-$15
Rodey Theater – UNM Fine Arts Building
203 Cornell NE
Using elements of clown, acrobatics, object manipulation, theatre, music, mime, and dance, Macadames of Paris, France explores the sentiment of love – delivered in an entirely universal language understood by all, regardless of where they come from or what languages they speak.
NK603 & Requiem for a Lost Land
Dates: January 20, 2012 - January 22, 2012
Time: Friday at 10, Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 3.
Tickets: $17-$20
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St SW
Performed by Violeta Luna of Mexico City, “NK603” was conceived as a reflection of American genetically modified corn and its devastating consequences on native corn varieties. Requiem is an attempt, from the space of performance art, to open with the coroner’s knife the very same discourse of death broadcast by those in power under the guise of “national security.”
Insomnia
Dates: January 21, 2012 - January 22, 2012
Time: Saturday & Sunday at 2.
Tickets: $17-$20
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St SW
Through music, movement, language, theatre, puppets, and objects, Insomnia evokes the struggle we have when we are facing ourselves. Loren Kahn and Isabelle Kessler of Loren Kahn Puppet & Object Theatre present their brand new production developed for children ages 9-13.
I Was the Voice of Democracy
Dates: January 21, 2012 - January 22, 2012
Time: Saturday & Sunday at 6pm
Tickets: $17-$20
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St SW
Written and performed by Brian Herrera. Through autobiographical storytelling, this one-man show offers a mix of analysis and anecdote (both hilarious and heartbreaking) as Herrera puzzles through the memories, mementos and artifacts comprising the archive of his own teenage experience.
Sophia’s Drawings
Dates: January 24, 2012
Time: 8pm
Tickets: $17-$20
Rodey Theater – UNM Fine Arts Building
203 Cornell NE
The play is based on a series of drawings made by 16-year old Sofia, who made these drawings in Holland while she was hiding from the Nazis during the war. Efrat Hadani, an actress, puppeteer and sculptress of Galillee Multicultural Theatre of Israel and Sofia’s daughter, acts in the play and relates her mother’s story.
The Teacher Show
Dates: January 26, 2012 - January 28, 2012
Time: Thursday & Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 6pm.
Tickets: $17-$20
UNM Theatre X – UNM Fine Arts Building (lower level below Popejoy Hall)
203 Cornell NE
The Working Group Theatre from Chicago. From the hysterical tale of teaching your first college class and hearing a student’s play where he’s imagining having sex with you, to a teacher conference in inner city Chicago where a student’s missing pen is an absurdly laid battleground, to the touching tale of a class in rural Kansas for kids suffering from problems most adults can’t imagine, the play takes us back to where we truly all began to grow, the classroom.
Lullabies for My Father
Dates: January 28, 2012 - January 29, 2012
Time: Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm.
Tickets: $17-$20
The Box Performance Space
100 Gold Ave SW Suite 112B
Performed by Tricklock Company, Lullabies is a collection of interviews and experiments on the subject of fathers that explores the notion of fatherhood and our relationships to the men we loved first. It's hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking, and highly entertaining.
Crash-Revolutionary Improv
Dates: January 27, 2012
Time: 10pm
Tickets: $10
The Box Performance Space
100 Gold Ave SW Suite 112B
A few Tricklockers got together with a few special guests to create an insanely powrful improv team. Crash is Revolutionary Improv at its very best. This years event will be inspired by the best events happening in the festival.
Excavations New Work Series
Dates: January 25, 2012
Time: 8pm
Tickets: $10
The Box Performance Space
100 Gold Ave SW Suite 112B
Created in 2004 as a platform for Tricklock Company to workshop and develop new plays, the Excavations New Work Series is an intimate opportunity for artists and audience members to collaborate on the creation of original work for the stage.
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
Dates: January 20, 2012 - January 22, 2012
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Saturday –Sunday 2pm, Sunday
Tickets: $47.50-$82.50
Popejoy Hall – UNM Fine Arts Building
210 Cornell Dr NE
Touring Broadway performance set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices.
My Fair Lady
Dates: February 10, 2012 - February 12, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Tickets: $42.50-$67.50
Popejoy Hall – UNM Fine Arts Building
210 Cornell Dr NE
Touring broadway production based on Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” with book, music and lyrics by Lerner and Loewe, MY FAIR LADY is triumphant. With “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?,” “The Rain in Spain,” “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “On the Street Where You Live” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.” It’s no wonder everyone – not just Henry Higgins – falls in love with Eliza Doolittle.
Damn Yankees
Dates: February 24, 2012
Time: 8pm
Tickets: $19-$34
Popejoy Hall – UNM Fine Arts Building
210 Cornell Dr NE
This classic musical comedy follows a salesman who sells his soul to the devil to help his favorite team beat the New York Yankees. He becomes a young sensation who transforms the hapless Washington Senators, only to realize the true worth of the life (and wife) he left behind.
Witness for the Prosecution
Dates: January 20, 2012 - February 5, 2012
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $10-$22
Albuquerque Little Theatre
224 San Pasqual SW
Only Agatha Christie could have conceived such a suspenseful thriller and then capped it with an uncanny triple flip ending! A young married man spends many evenings with a rich old woman. When she is found murdered, the naive young man becomes the chief suspect. His only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife, but his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her own.
Anne of Green Gables
Dates: February 24, 2012 - March 11, 2012
Time: Friday 7:30pm, Saturday-Sunday 2pm
Admission: $10-$22
Albuquerque Little Theatre
224 San Pasqual SW
The play faithfully recreates the memorable events and characters from the brilliant novel. Whether the playgoer is an “old friend” of Anne’s or meeting her for the first time, this play will solidify a lasting friendship between the audience and one of literature’s most unforgettable characters.
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Dates: February 10, 2012 - March 4, 2012
Time: Friday –Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $15
Vortex Theatre
2400 Central Avenue SE
This dark comedy in which a crippled, Irish orphan is cast in a 1930's era Hollywood documentary about the communities of the Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland.
Stones in His Pockets
Dates: March 9, 2012 - March 25, 2012
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $12-$16
Aux Dog Theatre
3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE
This is a is a tour de force two-hander set in a rural town in County Kerry Ireland that is turned upside down when it is overrun by a Hollywood film crew. An Olivier Award winner for Best Comedy and a three time Tony Award nominee.
The Seafarer
Dates: March 9, 2012 - April 1, 2012
Time: Thursday-Friday 8pm, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $10-$18
The Filling Station
1024 4th St SW
http://www.motherroad.org
The Seafarer is a chilling play about the sea, Ireland, and the power of myth. It's Christmas Eve, and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, aging brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. Sharky may be playing for his very soul.
Woman and the Scarecrow
Dates: March 16, 2012 - April 8, 2012
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $10-$12
Location: The Desert Rose Playhouse
6921 E. Montgomery Blvd. NE
Woman and the Scarecrow is about a woman on her deathbed faces the regrets of a half-lived life and her imminent departure from a philandering husband and eight children. The one emotion her character rarely knew was happiness, a fact pointed out by the mystifying Scarecrow, who serves alternately as a friend and a taunting prosecutor.
Time Stands Still
Dates: March 1, 2012 - March 17, 2012
Time: Thursday-Friday 8pm, Saturday 2pm & 8pm, Sunday 6pm
Admission: $25-$30
Location: The Cell
700 1st Street NW
The play is a story between friends and lovers that also explores the nature of empathy and giving witness to all that is human, both wretched and exalted.
Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi
Dates: March 24, 2012 - April 1, 2012
Time: Tuesday-Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $10-$75
Location: National Hispanic Cultural Center-Journal Theater
1701 Fourth St SW
Opera Southwest continues their first season at the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Albuquerque Journal Theatre with "Suor Angelica" and "Gianni Schicchi." Two of the three one-act operas featured in Puccini's "Il Trittico.” "Il Trittico" features the tales of three separate lives, each headed either toward heaven, hell or purgatory. Opera Southwest’s invites you to experience "Suor Angelica" (heaven) and "Gianni Schicchi" (hell), as the operas have completely different sentiments. The contrast between the two pieces is brilliant.
Oedipus the King
Dates: February 9, 2012 - February 19, 2012
Time: Thursday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $12-$20
Location: The Filling Station
1024 4th Street, SW
Oedipus isn't just a Greek tragedy - it's the Greek tragedy. The "Best Theatre Troupe in the City" brings you this six person adaptation of one man's struggle between willpower and fate. It will blow your mind and challenge your sensibilities. Brace yourself for a rebellious take on an age old tale; this ain't you momma's Sophocles.
Moon for the Misbegotten
Dates: January 13, 2012 - February 5, 2012
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $15
Location: Adobe Theater
9813 4th Street NW
Details: O'Neill's last full length play, and is considered one of the classics of American theater.
The story is set on a rundown Connecticut farmhouse in the early 1920's. It centers around two members of the Hogan family, Phil Hogan and his daughter Josie, and their alcoholic landlord, Jim Tyrone, a third-rate Broadway actor, a man tormented by his past behavior he can neither forget nor forgive. The play unfolds as Phil attempts to convince Josie to blackmail Tyrone into selling them the farm rather than to their rich, obnoxious neighbor, T. Stedman Harder. Seeing a union between Josie and Jim as a solution to both the family's money problems and Josie's loneliness, Phil schemes to get them together one way or another. But Josie and Jim are two lost souls, reaching out to each other across a blighted stretch of earth, in pursuit of a love, doomed from the beginning.
The Dining Room
Dates: February 10, 2012 - February 19, 2012
Time: Friday-Saturday 6:30pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: Friday-Saturday $30-$35 (Includes dinner) Sunday $12-$15
Location: East Mountain Centre for Theatre
15 La Madera Rd
This award-winning comedy of manners–featuring more than 50 character in 18 overlapping vignettes–explores the evolution of the upper-middle-class family, and revolves around the same set of antique dining room furniture.
The Price
Dates: February 10, 2012 - February 26, 2012
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Cost: $10-$16
Location: Aux Dog Theater
3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE
The Price is the story of estranged brothers, Victor and Walter Franz, brought together at the death of their father, in order to sell his furniture and other effects. Victor is a policeman of limited means; Walter is a successful business owner. Over the years they have grown apart. Walter's success makes Victor feel inadequate. Walter has trouble understanding why Victor refuses to accept his help. The men try to find some understanding, but it is nearly impossible for them to communicate.
The Drowsy Chaperone
Dates: February 17, 2012 - March 11, 2012
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $15
Location: Adobe Theater
9813 4th Street NW
Details: The Drowsy Chaperone, a comic "musical within a play," is an homage to American musicals of the jazz age. It won 8 Tony Awards in 2006 including best book. The Man In The Chair, a mousy agoraphobic Broadway fanatic seeking to cure his "non specific sadness", listens to a recording of a fictional 1929 musical comedy, "The Drowsy Chaperone". As he listens to this rare recording, he is transported into the musical. The characters appear in his dingy apartment, and it is transformed into a Broadway set. From time to time the Man in the Chair tries to insert his extensive but trivial knowledge of musical performances and actors. This is a fall off your chair funny musical farce.
Anything Goes
Dates: March 16, 2012 - April 1, 2012
Time: Friday-Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $15-$22
Location: Rodey Theater
1 University of New Mexico
Anything Goes is a hilarious shipboard love story set in the 1930s full of colorful characters wrapped around one of Cole Porter's magical and clever scores. The current Broadway revival starring Sutton Foster as the inimitable Reno Sweeney won the Tony for best revival. Songs include It's Delovely, Friendship, I Get a Kick Out of You, You're the Top, Blow Gabriel Blow, All Through the Night and Anything Goes.