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BWW Review: CABARET at NM Women's Club
Full confession: I was not jumping up and down to see another production of Cabaret. Chalk it up to Cabaret being the show that wouldn't die when I was in college - cast as a chorus member, it was a grueling rehearsal period and extended run, then we won American College Theater Festival for our reg...
BWW Review: GODSPELL at NM Women's Club
The story of Godspell is the Gospel According to St. Matthew and consists of Jesus sharing parables with his disciples, and his disciples emulating those parables through song. It's got a hippie/early 70s quality, via the crazy costumes and the peace/love at its core. The Tri-M ensemble embraces the...
BWW Review: OTHER DESERT CITIES at New Mexico Actors Lab
What happens when a prodigal daughter comes home after breaking down? How do super-conservative parents obsessed with image deal with their less-than perfect children and lives? These questions and more are at the center of Lon Robin Baltz's play Other Desert Cities. A new production at New Mexico A...
BWW Review: HAMLET at New Mexico Shakespeare Festival
[...] this production of Hamlet is sharp -- incredibly so. Remarkably well paced and brilliantly edited, with so much more action, energy, and even humor than I’d known the play could hold, it is immediately accessible and clearly was directed [...] and performed by people who really know what the...
BWW Review: THE ROMANS: JULIUS CAESAR and CORIOLANUS at the International Shakespeare Center
“[…]that season, billed as 'The Romans' - consisting of timely productions of Julius Caesar and Coriolanus - opened last weekend at the quad at Santa Fe Preparatory School (1101 Camino de Cruz Blanca), proving itself to be well worth the wait.“...
BWW Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Simulcast To Cars in Parking Lot
British stage director Netia Jones put her singular stamp on a production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream seen at the Santa Fe Opera on August 4, 2021. Performed in the opera house, it was simulcast to the lower parking lot where hundreds of patrons watched from the safety of th...
BWW Review: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at Santa Fe Opera
The singing in this performance made it one of the best Figaros I’ve seen in many years. Despite singing recitative, vocal runs, and high notes with silvery tones for three and a half hours, Ying Fang as Susanna never sounded the least bit tired. Her character was a 20th century woman with dreams ...
BWW Review: Santa Fe Opera Online Benefit Concert
On March 11, 2021, Santa Fe Opera presented an online benefit concert for its renowned apprentice programs. Singing the concert were former apprentices mezzo-soprano Emily Fons, tenor Jack Swanson, and baritone Will Liverman. Fons sings an aria from The Haunted Manor, Liverman sings an aria from Pag...
BWW Review: IS THIS AMERICA? at Home Computer Screens
On Oct. 23, the Santa Fe Opera and Center for Contemporary Arts presented 'Is This America?' This online workshop featuring scenes from the one-act opera, 'This Little Light of Mine,' took place on October10, 2020, aboard the retired tanker Mary A. Whalen which is-docked in Red Hook, Brooklyn....
BWW Review: PAREA SERIES: THE TELEPHONE at Home Computer Screens
On October 3, I watched an updated version of Gian Carlo Menottia??s 1947 short opera, The Telephone. The dial telephone tethered to one room of the home that some of us oldsters grew up with has become a portable smart phone and each person has one. The Parea Virtual Recital Series which explains t...
BWW Review: UNSHAKEABLE at Home Computer Screens
On Friday evening August 28, Santa Fe Opera screened a filmed performance of Joseph Illick and Andrea Fellows Waltersa?? one-act opera UnShakeable, composed for the a?oeShakespeare 400a?? celebration in 2016. Meridian had lost her memory due to a pandemic of a?oeerasure,a?? but Wyatt still retaine...
BWW Review: SONGS FROM THE SANTA FE OPERA at Home Computer Screens
The story of David Henry Hwanga??s play M. Butterfly, while entwined with that of Puccinia??s opera Madama Butterfly, is basically about the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a Peking Opera singer. The singer, thought by all who knew her to be female, was actua...
BWW Review: A CELEBRATION OF DVORAK'S RUSALKA at Santa Fe Opera Online
On Saturday, July 25, 2020, at six oa??clock sharp, it was time to hook the computer up to the television set and watch Santa Fe Operaa??s celebration of Antonín Dvořáka??s extraordinary opera Rusalka. In the background, the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra of Košice, conducted by Robert Stan...
BWW Review: SANTA FE OPERA CELEBRATION OF TRISTAN UND ISOLDE at Home Computer Screens
Tonight, the opera celebrates Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and Ryan McKinny, who was to have sung Kurvenal, is hosting the online program from North Carolina. In this year of pandemic, artists are quarantined at home. McKinny greets us with a stein full of dark Bavarian brew with a silver to...
BWW Review: RED BIKE at Teatro Paraguas (Online)
Innovative theatre makers across the country have risen to the challenge of creating safe art in the time of COVID - often via Zoom, Twitch, or other conferencing/streaming platforms. Red Bike, directed by Juliet Salazar and presented by Teatro Paraguas, took a different, and decidedly more cinemati...
BWW Review: SONGS FROM THE SANTA FE OPERA at Home Computer Screens
On Saturday Evening, July 11, at 7:00PM Mountain time, Santa Fe Opera presented its online celebration of Mozart's The Magic Flute. The opera would have premiered in the 63-year-old New Mexico company's elegant open-air theater if COVID-19 had not caused the cancellation of the season. A recording o...
BWW Review: THE DUMB WAITER at West End Productions
BWW Review: THE DUMB WAITER at West End Productions...
BWW Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Aux Dog Theatre
BWW Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Aux Dog Theatre...
BWW Review: DOUBT at The Adobe Theatre
BWW Review: DOUBT at The Adobe Theatre...
BWW Review: HUMMINGBIRD at Teatro Paraguas
Augusto Boal once said, 'Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.' I cannot help but feel very fortunate that the Santa Fe theatre scene has been full of educational and transform...
BWW Review: BOOK OF MORMON at Popejoy Hall
BWW Review: BOOK OF MORMON at Popejoy Hall...
BWW Review: BLACK COMEDY at West End Productions
BWW Review: BLACK COMEDY at West End Productions...
BWW Review: LEADING LADIES at Adobe Theatre
Ken Ludwig's Leading Ladies is now playing at Adobe Theatre. Running from January 17th - February 9th, Leading Ladies is considered to be a, 'rare mix of screwball comedy and farce with a tip of the hat to the Billy Wilder classic Some Like it Hot,' by director Lewis Hauser. In addition, 'the charac...
BWW Review: WAITRESS at Popejoy Hall
BWW Review: WAITRESS at Popejoy Hall...
BWW Review: AN ADOBE CHRISTMAS CAROL at Adobe Theatre
Adobe theatre's An Adobe Christmas Carol brings the spirit of the holidays to Albuquerque. With a small cast of only 13 playing multiple roles, the heartfelt production kicked off the season starting on November 22nd. The play, which is adapted and directed by Pete Parkin, takes the classic tale of ...
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Company Santa Fe Playhouse (11/19-12/20) |
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Madama Butterfly Santa Fe Opera (7/03-8/29) |
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Staind, Seether, Hoobastank & Hinder First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater (10/14-10/14) |
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Ghostbusters in Concert Popejoy Hall (8/02-8/02) |
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THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL Adobe Theater (5/29-6/21) |
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Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass Kiva Auditorium (6/19-6/19) |
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Spring Awakening Musical Theatre Southwest (6/05-6/28) |
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Summer Tablao Flamenco Wednesdays Teatro Paraguas (6/10-8/26) |
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THE CRUCIBLE Adobe Theater (9/04-9/27) |
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Shrek The Musical Farmington Civic Center (7/30-8/09) |
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