A survey of Broadway musicals about labor union issues, from Pins and Needles and The Cradle Will Rock in 1937 to 2012's Newsies.
Performance
Melodrama playwrights anonymous no more
A reinvented iteration of the Fiesta tradition lets both local and non-·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe writers in on the skewering of our state’s capital.
The music group Chatter and The Exodus Ensemble theater company have found success by using nontraditional techniques.
Performance
The musical 'Grease' gets an Indigenous upgrade
Bear Grease, a Native reimagining of the 1970s classic, is returning to ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe to deliver laughs but also a message.
Performance
Love blossoms in Shakespeare in the Garden
·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe Classic Theater offers a garden of delights with Twelfth Night, or What You Will, its fifth summer production.
The ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe Playhouse takes on Sunday in the Park With George starring David Stallings and directed by Anna Hogan.
Anna Hogan is helming the production of Sunday in the Park with George at ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe Playhouse, and she sat down with Pasatiempo for an introductory Q&A.
Performance
Tri-M Productions has a new pet project
With Legally Blonde: The Musical, the theater company throws a bone to the canine co-stars.
Danielle Louise Reddick and Mona Malec spend the entirety of Two Artists in Prison in a makeshift prison cell, climbing around as they trade dialogue.
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National Dance Institute achieves happy feat
Generations of students run and jump through the spotlight with NDI as it leaps into its 30th year
Performance
Lux life
Albuquerque choral group Coro Lux will sing Carl Orff's Carmina Burrata, a famously complex composition, for two performances this week.
The indie singer-songwriter makes music that mines her personal life, and that means when she plays the songs live, she's reliving the experiences all over again.
Desert Chorale is well known for putting together standout choral performances, and one day a year, they open the door to members of the community.
The group's current production is meant to help its performers find their way into a future without boundaries.
The mezzo sprano has performed the role more than 200 times all over the world, but she's most in her element taking audiences beyond the source material.
Performance
Celebrating with Tony
The New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus has never done a full Broadway tribute before, but this spring it's taking a chance on An Evening With Tony.
The singer-songwriter doesn't want to be corralled by any genre or label. She just wanted to play her music and sign her heart out for anyone lucky enough to listen.
The inaugural Chicharra Poetry Slam Festival will be held from March 21 through March 21, and founder Zachary Kluckman hopes it will become a New Mexico tradition.
RANDOM ACT
Circus for all
Omnium Circus specializes in making the circus arts as inclusive and accessible as possible, and it will hit the stage at Popejoy Hall on March 17.
Performance
Festival amplifies the female voice
The voices of female playwrights are not always supported in the theater world, and Talia Pura has created a festival to correct that phenomenon.
Performance
To be, 'Or,' not to be a modern classic
Three great English playwrights, a hedonistic king and his favorite mistress, and the first woman to own a theater company are all featured in ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe Playhouse's rotating repertory staging of two plays by Liz Duffy Adams.
She's rubbed elbows with Michael Jackson and Prince, but the singer-songwriter's parents rank among her most important collaborators.
You may not know his name, but you know his songs. Chart-topping country songwriter Marv Green comes to ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe to play the Bishop's Lodge.
Relationships. They make us mad and they make us laugh. So why not spend your Valentine's Day with a group of comedians?
Brevity is the soul of ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe Classic Theater’s staging of all of the master playwright’s works.
Performance
Ballet on the Trocks
Aspen ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe Ballet brings MOMIX and the tutu-swelling cast of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo to the Lensic in February.
ARTS NEWS
- Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum admission, membership free
- Meow Wolf Houston pays tribute to ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe creative icon Matt King
- 41 pieces available in Montezuma Ball online auction
- Cristina Kahlo lecture about contemporary Mexican photography set
- Theater Grottesco holds first inventory-reduction sale
- Violet Crown to show McCabe & Mrs. Miller as Shelley Duvall tribute
- Two art projects sought for Railyard Plaza
- Exhibition at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art explores climate change
- Family fun day at Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
- Center gets grant to place 20,000 images online