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BWW Review: THE GOLDEN COCKEREL at Santa Fe Opera
The Golden Cockerel was Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera. He wrote it in 1905 as a satire on the Russian government of the time. As with many political satires, the libretto that Vladimir Belsky based on Pushkin's poem THE TALE OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL can still make some points over one hundred y...
BWW Review: THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS Sells Out at Santa Fe Opera
On July 22, 2017, Santa Fe Opera presented the world premiere of Mason Bates and Mark Campbell's opera THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS. The new piece was co-commissioned by Santa Fe, Seattle, and San Francisco Operas. Director Kevin Newbury used a great deal of new technology in telling Jobs' story. ...
BWW Review: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR at Crosby Theatre, Santa Fe Opera
On July 21, 2017, Santa Fe Opera presented Ron Daniels' production of Gaetano Donizetti's bel canto work, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Beginning with a storm and several huge rainbows, the open sides of Santa Fe Opera's Crosby Theatre allowed the audience to watch the sun set as the orchestra played the ope...
BWW Review: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at The Civic Plaza
William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, one of the playwright's earlier plays, involves an intricate plot that revolves around multiple instances of mistaken identities, slapstick humor, and the word play that Shakespeare is so well-known for....
BWW Review: THE ICEMAN COMETH, a Symphony of Sadness (and Kindness), at The Vortex
Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh--the portrayal of a dysfunctional bunch of rock-bottom alcoholic barflies and the salesman who tries to 'save' them from their futile pipe dreams: This show is an extraordinary symphony--nineteen excellent actors all piping in and out, rising and falling collective...
BWW Review: MOVING ARTS ESPAÑOLA's Youth Share Their Story at United World College's Annual Conference
This was our first ever 'tour,' our first time outside the dome theater where we conducted our Monday-Wednesday after-school drama program. The beautiful Moving Arts Performance Center where we rehearse (a transformed casino gambling hall) is a testament to what is possible in Española, but our the...
BWW Review: THE GAZA MONOLOGUES Moves (and Moves With) the Audience at Peñasco Theater
In the mountain village of Peñasco, New Mexico, to an audience of youth and adults where everyone seemed to know each other, four actors (two of them, teenagers) performed powerfully a style of theater that I had never seen before-yet which seemed so natural, an organic expression of that unique co...
BWW Review: REGENERATION FESTIVAL makes us all actors, in Taos, Espanola, And Beyond
The Festival's primary purpose: to actualize the necessary positive response to a tragic global epidemic of hopelessness. The festival was founded by Lyla June Johnston as a response to a spike in an already-bleak trend of youth suicide and drug abuse-the goal of the event is to end this trend. ...
BWW Review: RE(D)GENERATION Comes from the Earth at the Center For Contemporary Arts
Dancing Earth takes contemporary dance a step further-because they root within their immemorial indigenous identity. Theirs was not a dance of abstract gestures through undefined space; their movement was growth, upon a dancing earth....
BWW Review: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT at National Hispanic Cultural Center Journal Theater
It takes guts to do a show like Priscilla Queen of the Desert, a drag-queen pop musical based on a popular Oscar winning movie-in a venue like the National Hispanic Cultural Center's grand and elegant Journal Theater. To do it right, the show needs to be big. Big glitz, big musical numbers, big ...
BWW Review: THE WHITEHEADED BOY is Spoiled at The Adobe
The Whiteheaded Boy drags along the bottom of the Adobe stage with poor pace and too many clumsy performances. The energy picks up, eventually-the second act has a good clip to it, but much too late. Already the Stage Manager, sitting uselessly to the side of the stage, has introduced to every cha...
BWW Review: DRUNKEN CITY at The Cell
The Cell, where Duke City Repertory is performing this show, is just two blocks from the Central nightclub strip full of young people. Can that crowd please attend the theater too? Tickets are less expensive than a couple drinks, and there's catharsis instead of a hangover. Besides, here is a pl...
BWW Review: IMMORTAL LONGINGS is theater geeks and lay(wo)men alike at The Vortex
As a theater geek, I'm predisposed to enjoy Immortal Longings, the Vortex' latest production, which brings a pantheon-ensemble of Shakespeare's greatest female characters from his greatest plays onto a single stage, to perform their greatest scenes. This is a geek's dream. Yet I don't feel like I'...
BWW Review: THE COUNTRY HOUSE Mourns a Fiction at The Cell
A family mourns the recent death of their beloved sister/daughter/wife/mother (and famous actress), Kathy. This melancholy premise is a fitting frame for self-involved character reflections, but not for dramatic energy-especially because the manner of Kathy's death is totally unrelated to the char...
BWW Reviews: TERRA NOVA an Elegant Doom at The Vortex
Terra Nova's elegant staging and technical elements created an engrossing poetry of action for the brooding tale of men dying in Antarctica. I can't say I warmed-up to all the choices, but warmth wasn't the point of this play. I'll leave it to my reader to see the show and feel the effect of thes...
BWW Review: THE GRADUATE Goes Singularly Deep at Aux Dog Nob Hill
The ensemble of the Aux Dog's Graduate --especially the leads--so thoroughly possessed their characters that I soon forgot entirely 'how Hoffman, et al did it in the movie.' But they went further, delving through the expansive script with raw and ruthless energy so not only did I stop comparing to ...
BWW Review: ELEVATED SOAPBOX Strikes a Cord at Therapy
The Elevated Soapbox is a monthly speaking event, held in Therapy Gallery Downtown: Each Soapbox has a theme, and is curated by a different guest, who chooses six people from the community to each speak for six minutes about their personal life, passion, and profession....
BWW Review: THE CHUPACABRA CANTINA makes a statement (fun) at VSA North Fourth Arts Center
The women of Las Meganenas, a local troupe of storytellers, are showing their latest piece at the VSA North Fourth Arts Center: 'The Chupacabra Cantina,' a galvanizing expose on the imbalanced global structures of power that, like the vampiric Chupacabra of Mexican and Hispanic legend, suck the lif...
BWW Interview: Director Mark Hisler Contextualizes TERRA NOVA at The Vortex
The next show in the Vortex Theater will be Terra Nova, by Ted Tally. Opening March 25 and running until April 17, the play covers the last leg of the ill-fated 1912 Terra Nova South Pole expedition, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Co-directed by Mark Hisler (left, in below image) and ...
BWW Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Displays the Talent at Bosque School
Basque school puts on a big show: Costumes, props, sets--all, impeccably done. Their chief assets are the students, whose talent gives this show life....
BWW Review: TRAVELING WITH ANGELS Captivates at National Hispanic Cultural Center
Renee Peña's simple, vibrant autobiography--her childhood in Gallup, NM, her family relationships, her travels throughout 27 countries--is like a laid back aunt telling stories at a family reunion. Yet Peña's not just any old aunt--she's an actress of extraordinary skill; with craft and care, she...
BWW Reviews: BEDTIME STORIES WITH POPPLEWELL Rambles Aimlessly at Trick Lock Performance Laboratory
Locally produced one act, 'Bedtime Stories With Popplewell,' should've seen a lot more revision before opening in the Tricklock Performance Laboratory, but the community came out to support it anyhow....
BWW Review: STUPID F***ING BIRD Embodies New Form at The Cell
The Cell Theater's equity theater company, Fusion, is now playing 'Stupid F***ing Bird,' a new (as of 2013) tragi-comedy written by Aaron Posner that comments on its newness by embodying the skin of its ancestor, Chekov's 'The Seagull.'...
BWW Reviews: Meredith Wilder COMING OF THE NIGHT CD Release Charms the Crowd at St. Johns Cathedral
At the release concert of her latest CD, 'Coming of the Night,' Albuquerque artist Meredith Wilder shows her community she's strong and ready to grow....
BWW Review: THE OTHER MOZART restores a genius at Aux Dog Nob Hill
A prodigy in her own right but suppressed because she was a woman and forgotten in the shadow of her brother Wolfgang, Maria Anna Mozart tells her true story in a galvanizing, intimate one-woman show, 'The Other Mozart,' touring from New York and playing at the Aux Dog Theater Nob Hill until January...
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THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER Adobe Theater (12/04-12/20) |
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THESE SHINING LIVES Adobe Theater (7/17-8/09) |
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Company Santa Fe Playhouse (11/19-12/20) |
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At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen Santa Fe Playhouse (5/07-5/31) |
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THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL Adobe Theater (5/29-6/21) |
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SHIRLEY VALENTINE North Fourth Theatre (5/29-6/14) |
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CLUE Adobe Theater (10/16-11/08) |
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Lili Elbe Santa Fe Opera (8/01-8/27) |
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Waiting for Godot Vortex Theatre (5/29-6/21) |
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Cabaret Santa Fe Playhouse (7/02-7/19) |
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