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 15-February 3. 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 2013's January-March 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.
Guerra
Dates: January 17-20, 2013
Time: Thursday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Tickets: $17-$22
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St SW
A Clown Play is a satirical physical comedy created by Mexico City
company La Piara in collaboration with writers/directors Seth Bockley
and Devon de Mayo. The play combines slapstick, clown, dance, bouffant
and farce to tell the story of a military outpost desperate for
recruits, and the cannon fodder that a hapless General sends to war.
Performed in three languages and featuring a climactic paper plane
bombardment, La Piara’s performers play a trio of military officers
engaged in a struggle against an unseen enemy amassing offstage.
Storm
Dates: January 19-20, 2013
Time: Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Tickets: $17-$22
UNM Rodey Theatre
203 Cornell Dr NE
Storm is a new artistic form: a mosaic of projections, music and
characters that closely capture the chaotic spirit of these times. Storm
is a play about environment and a journey into the social paradigms
that prevent the world from taking action. A chorus of characters spans
historical and contemporary thought crossing cultural barriers. The
actors move from character to character, colliding with the scientific
information and news reports, blending with the emerging music and
projections.
79 FJORD
Dates: January 23-25, 2013
Time: 8pm
Tickets: $17-$22
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St SW
From Denmak, Teatret OM brings ’79fjord. The story of adventure and courage is told with strong images, music and humor in an igloo that embraces both audience and actors.
Play Actually
Dates: January 25-27, 2013
Time: Friday 10pm, Saturday 6pm, Sunday 12pm
Tickets: $17-$22
UNM Theatre X
203 Cornell Dr NE
Play Actually is all about the way people represent and, on occasion,
misrepresent themselves. The satire is both absurdist and accurate. Tim
Monley and Katy Houska portray every game as equally ridiculous, every
player as both pretentious and vulnerable. With their clowning skills –
for all their affected coyness, both have studied at the Philippe
Gaulier school – and irrepressible energy, they make every scene zing.
HaMapah-The Map
Dates: January 26-27, 2013
Time: Saturday 8pm, Sunday 6pm
Tickets: $17-$22
Location: TBA
HaMapah/The Map is a multimedia dance journey that traces the intersections of dancer Adam McKinney’s African American, Native American, and Jewish heritages. HaMapah/The Map weaves contemporary dance with archival material, personal interviews, Yiddish and American songs, and video set to traditional, contemporary, and classical music. In the piece, McKinney explores issues of identity, ancestry, and family.
Finger Mouth
Dates: January 31, 2013 & February 3, 2013
Time: Thursday 8pm, Sunday 6pm
Tickets: $17-$22
Tricklock Performance Laboratory
110 Gold Ave SW
Finger Mouth tells the dark and hilarious tale of one girl’s journey through the “what’s real?” world of possible mental illness. Based on actual events in turn-of-the-century France, Finger Mouth follows a young woman whose attempt to escape childhood trauma lands her in a seemingly timeless hospital where doctors describe her symptoms simply as “Hysteria;” a blanket diagnosis that was given to thousands of women with a diverse range of symptoms.
Rock of Ages
Dates: January 3, 2013 - January 6, 2013
Time: Thursday 7:30pm, Friday-Saturday 8pm, Saturday –Sunday 2pm, Sunday 7:30pm
Tickets: $35-$65
Popejoy Hall – UNM Fine Arts Building
210 Cornell Dr NE
In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small town girl met a big city rocker and in LA’s most famous rock club, they fell in love to the greatest songs of the ‘80s. The worldwide party musical Rock of Ages features a mix of 28 rockin’ 80’s tunes including Don’t Stop Believin’, We Built this City, The Final Countdown, Wanted Dead or Alive, Here I Go Again, Can’t Fight This Feelin’ and I Want to Know What Love Is.
Dreamgirls
Dates: February 14, 2013 - February 17, 2013
Time: Thursday 7:30pm. Friday-Saturday 8pm, Saturday-Sunday 2pm, Sunday 7:30pm
Tickets: $20-$60
Popejoy Hall – UNM Fine Arts Building
210 Cornell Dr NE
A sensational new stage production of Dreamgirls! Full of onstage joy and backstage drama, Dreamgirls tells the story of an up-and-coming, 1960s singing girl group, and the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune.
West Side Story
Dates: March 14, 2013 - March 17, 2013
Time: Thursday 7:30pm. Friday-Saturday 8pm, Saturday-Sunday 2pm, Sunday 7:30pm
Tickets: TBA
Popejoy Hall – UNM Fine Arts Building
210 Cornell Dr NE
More than fifty years ago one musical changed theater forever. Now it's back and mesmerizing audiences once again. From the first note to the final breath, West Side Story soars as the greatest love story of all time and remains as powerful, poignant and timely as ever.
Little Women
Dates: January 18, 2013 - February 3, 2013
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $10-$15
Albuquerque Little Theatre
224 San Pasqual SW
Set in 1863 in New England, this story features four spirited teenaged sisters, Jo, Amy, Beth and Meg, who always find ways to bring life to troubled times. With their chaplain father away serving in the Civil War and their mother doing all she can to hold things together at home, the girls employ creativity and courage to help their mother while pursuing their own passions—Jo’s writing, Amy’s art, Beth’s service to the poor, and Meg’s pursuit to become a proper young lady.
La Cage Aux Folles
Dates: March 1, 2013 - March 24, 2013
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $12-$24
Albuquerque Little Theatre
224 San Pasqual SW
After twenty years of un-wedded bliss Georges and Albin, two men partnered for better or worse get a bit of both when Georges’ son announces his impending marriage to the daughter of a bigoted politician. Further complicating the situation is the family business. Albin and Georges run a transvestite nightclub in St. Tropez, where Albin is the star performer ZaZa. Georges reluctantly agrees to masquerade as normal when he meets the family of the bride, but Albin had other plans with hilarious results!
Clybourne Park
Dates: March 2, 2013 - March 23, 2013
Time: Wednesday-Saturday 8pm, Saturday-Sunday 2pm, Sunday 6pm
Admission: $30-$35
Location: The Cell,
700 1st Street NW
Act One takes place in 1959 as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
Madama Butterfly
Dates: March 17, 19, 22, 24 2013
Time: Sunday 2pm, Tuesday & Friday 7:30pm
Admission: $10-$80
Location: National Hispanic Cultural Center-Journal Theater
1701 Fourth St SW
For over a century, the tragic tale of a geisha’s love, steadfastness and heartbreak has been enchanting audiences around the world. Although Madama Butterfly is best known for its exquisite arias for sopranos, the long, wondrously varied love duet that ends Act I is considered his greatest by many Puccini fans. The gorgeous melodies are tinged with foreboding, as Butterfly fears her happiness is so great that she may die of it.
Poe
Dates: February 7, 2013 - February 17, 2013
Time: Thursday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $5-$10
Location: The Filling Station
1024 4th Street, SW
Journey into the mind of the father of American horror and revisit his best known stories as DCRT seeks to answer the question: Who is Edgar Allan Poe? Poe will be performed by a cast of 6 actors, including Resident Company Members Amelia Ampuero, Frank Green and Lauren Myers, playing several roles in this fierce and energetic production.
Cahoots
Dates: January 11, 2013 - February 3, 2013
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $13-$15
Location: Adobe Theater
9813 4th Street NW
This outrageously funny comedy with murder brings the problem of big-city crime home with a farcical vengeance. Those involved are two "yuppie" couples who, though obsessed with the dangers of urban living, are hardly prepared for the "crime wave" that they bring upon themselves—and well apart from the feared denizens of the mean streets outside their triple-locked apartments.
The Seagull
Dates: February 1, 2013 - February 24, 2013
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Cost: $18
Location: The Vortex Theatre
2004 Central Ave SE
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov is a slice-of-life drama set in the Russian countryside at the end of the 19th century. The cast of characters is dissatisfied with their lives. Some desire love. Some desire success. Some desire artistic genius. No one, however, ever seems to attain happiness.
Parted Waters
Dates: February 8, 2013 - February 16, 2013
Time: Friday-Saturday 7pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: Friday-Saturday $15-$35 (Includes dinner) Sunday $12-$15
Location: East Mountain Centre for Theatre
15 La Madera Rd
A serious/comic play by Robert Benjamin. Three generations of Hispanics confront their Crypto-Jewish ancestry when they are forced to convert to Catholicism.
Romance/Romance
Dates: February 14, 2013 - March 10, 2013
Time: Thursday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Cost: $20-$22
Location: Musical Theatre Southwest
6320 Domingo Rd NE Suite B
Two one act musicals take varied looks at romance seekers. In the first act of Barry Harman and Keith Herrmann's musical, two 19th-century aristocrats meet in disguise, fall in love and worry over how to confess their true identities. In the second act, two married best friends fantasize about sleeping with each other while vacationing in the Hamptons.
All My Sons
Dates: February 22, 2013 - March 17, 2013
Time: Friday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $13-$15
Location: Adobe Theater
9813 4th Street NW
During the war Joe Keller and Herbert Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the action. The love affair of Chris Keller and Ann Deever, the bitterness of George Deever returned from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, are all set in a structure of almost unbearable power. The climax showing the reaction of a son to his guilty father is fitting conclusion to a play electrifying in its intensity.
Hello Dolly
Dates: March 15, 2013 - March 31, 2013
Time: Friday-Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2pm
Admission: $18-$22
Location: Rodey Theater
1 University of New Mexico
In Hello, Dolly!, Dolly Levi, the well-known matchmaker, attempts to find herself a husband in the wealthy Horace Vandergelder. Meanwhile, she matches together a rich widow, Irene Molloy with Vandergelder's employee, Cornelius Hackl. She also sets up Molloy's assistant, Minnie, with Cornelius's assistant, Barnaby. Further, she matches the poor artist, Ambrose, with Vandergelder's niece, Ermengarde. In the end, after a ruckus at an upscale restaurant and a court case, Dolly convinces Vandergelder to marry her and all is well.