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BWW Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE at Vortex Theater
It's the 1920s. As a woman, you need to please your husband, your children, your community. You need to keep a beautiful house and need to keep yourself beautiful as well - it's especially important, as your husband wants his 'little bird' to just be lovely and free of worry. After all, why should t...
BWW Review: BANDSTAND at Popejoy Hall
BWW Review: BANDSTAND at Popejoy Hall...
BWW Review: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH at Musical Theater Southwest
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Storms Musical Theater Southwest...
BWW Review: UNDER MILK WOOD at West End Productions
West End Production's Under Milk Wood is now playing at North 4th Theatre in Albuquerque. Under Milk Wood is a play based on a radio drama by playwright and poet Dylan Thomas. Commissioned by the BBC in 1950, it was completed shortly before his death in New York City in 1953. A film version, directe...
BWW Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR at Popejoy Hall
The 50th anniversary tour of Jesus Christ Superstar updates the much-loved Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and modernizes it in a way that makes it more accessible and enjoyable to today's audiences. The musical, which debuted on Broadway in 1971, has reached a world-wide audience since then, with perfo...
BWW Review: MAMMA MIA! at Albuquerque Little Theater
So, you want to marry the love of your life on a Greek isle at your Mom's dilapidated hotel and you're not sure who your Dad is - so you read Mom's diary and realize there's three potential Dads - what's a girl to do? If you're Donna's daughter Sophie, you drop three letters in the mail and invite t...
BWW Review: THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST at Santa Fe Playhouse
When we arrived at Santa Fe Playhouse for the Sunday matinee of The Happiest Song Plays Last - part three of the Elliot Trilogy, superbly written by Quiara Alegria Hudes and currently being produced in a collaborative effort by three local theaters, - I asked the director, 'is this really the happie...
BWW Review: THE WOMEN at Adobe Theatre
The Women, a play by Clare Boothe Luce, is a comedy of manners that is a social commentary on the lives and power struggles of wealthy Manhattan socialites in 1936. The play has been performed on Broadway several times and had two movies based off of it, including a contemporary remake starring Meg ...
BWW Review: WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at Teatro Paraguas
Even though the subject matter is heavy, Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, part one of the Elliot Trilogy by Quiara Alegria Hughes, left me with a light feeling at the end. I was looking forward to part two, Water By the Spoonful, this week, hopeful for a similar experience. Part two was a whole other expe...
BWW Review: ELLIOT: A SOLDIER'S FUGUE at Teatro Paraguas
Excellent kickoff for trilogy of plays by Pulitzer Prize winning author Quiara Alegria Hudes....
BWW Review: BLOOD AND WATER at Aux Dog Theatre
Blood and Water, the newest production playing at the Aux Dog Theatre (and a world premiere at that) is a strong new piece from Albuquerque based playwright Andy Mayo. Similar to the works of Sam Shepard in construction and tone, the dark comedy examines the relationship between two estranged brothe...
BWW Review: DRACULA at Elite Dance & Theatre
BWW Review: DRACULA at Elite Dance & Theatre...
BWW Review: FALSE WITNESS: THE TRIAL OF HUMANITY'S CONSCIENCE At ReinART Productions
In a hypothetical eternal court, Hitler is tried for his crimes against humanity. His defense? Martin Luther. The prosecutor? Anne Frank. So begins False Witness: The Trial of Humanity's Conscience by Robert Krakow, currently running at The Swan Theatre....
BWW Review: HARVEY at Adobe Theater
BWW Review: HARVEY at Adobe Theater...
BWW Review: 4,000 MILES at New Mexico Actors Lab
The 2019 New Mexico Actors Lab season has been a very strong one, and the trend continues with their final production, 4,000 Miles. Amy Herzog's 2013 Pulitzer finalist is about, in large part, the relationship between 21 year old Leo and his 91 year old grandmother, dealing with themes of family, lo...
BWW Review: MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT at Rodey Theater, UNM
I don't know about you, but I rarely go to a musical in a bad mood. But I was in a bit of a bad mood when I arrived for the Sunday matinee of Spamalot this weekend - my kids were bickering, my husband was trying to manage my driving on the way to Albuquerque, I was exhausted from my week at my real ...
BWW Review: NSFW at Santa Fe Playhouse
Ever get to the theater, expecting to laugh, cry, think and be moved? This is not one of those times. I would like to say that NSFW at the Santa Fe Playhouse ran that gamut of emotions for me, but I would be lying. That's not to say that it didn't have its moments, it's just that there weren't enoug...
BWW Review: THE THIRTEENTH CHILD at Santa Fe Opera
On July 27, 2019, Santa Fe Opera added a new work to the operatic canon with its world premiere of THE THIRTEENTH CHILD by Danish composer Poul Ruders and American librettists Becky and David Starobin. The production was co-commissioned and co-produced by Santa Fe Opera and the Odense Symphony ...
BWW Review: COSI FAN TUTTE at Santa Fe Opera
On July 26, 2019, Santa Fe Opera presented R. B. Schlather's rambunctious production of W. A. Mozart's dramma giocoso Così fan tutte. His first act started with Don Alfonso as a cowboy and the two couples, Fiordiligi with Gugliemo and Dorabella with Ferrando dressed in tennis whites. Amanda Maje...
BWW Review: JENUFA at Santa Fe Opera
On Wednesday, July 24, 2019, Santa Fe Opera presented Leoš Janáček's powerful dramatic opera Jenůfa. Laura Wilde, a former Santa Fe Apprentice who performed the title role at English National Opera in 2016, again sang the lead while Patricia Racette, who has often sung Jenůfa, portrayed her ste...
BWW Review: SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD at Adobe Theater
BWW Review: SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD at Adobe Theater...
BWW Review: NEWSIES at Musical Theatre Southwest
Based on the cult classic movie of 1992 starring Christian Bale, David Moscow, and Bill Pullman, Newsies tells the 'David vs. Goliath' story of the newsboys of New York rising up to fight newspaper publishers in an attempt to secure rights for themselves. Newsies is also inspired by the real-life Ne...
BWW Review: STOP KISS at New Mexico Actors Lab
A review of the original 1998 production of Diana Son's Stop Kiss refers to the play as a 'small treasure' - not intended as a slight, but I think in reference to the beautifully, movingly simple nature of the script. I would use the same phrase to describe the New Mexico Actor's Lab production (cur...
BWW Review: THE PEARL FISHERS at Santa Fe Opera
On June 29, Santa Fe Opera presented its second production of the 2019 season, a revival of Georges Bizet's exotic THE PEARL FISHERS. First seen in Lee Blakekely's 2012 version, the production has fared well. Current director Shawna Lucey staged a tasteful, straight forward revival of the work Bizet...
BWW Review: LA BOHEME Opens Santa Fe Opera's 2019 Season
On June 28, 2019, Santa Fe Opera opened its 63rd Season with Giacomo Puccini's tale of poverty-stricken young lovers in nineteenth century Paris. Stage Director Mary Birnbaum told the tale in a straight forward manner but with with an occasional twist that fomented conversation among audience member...
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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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