Past Shows
How I Learned to Drive
May 17 – Jun 2, 2024
A woman learans the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel. ADULCONTENT - not appropriate for children under 14....
Hillary and Clinton
Apr 12 – Apr 28, 2024
This high-flying comedy is set in an alternate universe and examines the politics of marriage, gender, and the limitations of experience during a run for...
August Wilson's Jitney
Mar 8 – Mar 24, 2024
The Pulitzer-prize winning playwright, August Wilson, is famous for masterpieces like Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and The Piano Lesson. Jitney takes us on a...
The Art of Raising Anything
Feb 2 – Feb 18, 2024
World premiere of a new play by Glaad Award Winner John Dayton Cerna. "The Art of Raising Anything," invites you into the lives of two starkly...
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley
Dec 1 – Dec 17, 2023
The Wickhams takes audiences to Pemberley's downstairs servants' quarters for the Christmas celebration. Mrs. Reynolds, the housekeeper, Cassie, an eager new maid, and Brian, a footman,...
Hazardous Materials
Nov 3 – Nov 19, 2023
One apartment. Two different eras. Each creating unlikely friendships. In 2015, reluctant coworkers Hal and Cassie are investigating a sad hoarder mess, sifting through the...
Dracula
Sep 29 – Oct 15, 2023
Set at the end of the 19th century, Dracula is an absurdist adaptation by post-modernist playwright Mac Wellman (A Murder of Crows, The Hyacinth Macaw). Told in a...
Constellations
Aug 25 – Sep 10, 2023
Suppose that life exists in a multiverse—a set of parallel existences that contain infinitely different futures. The possibilities in our lives are, quite literally, endless....
Constellations
Aug 25 – Sep 10, 2023
Suppose that life exists in a multiverse—a set of parallel existences that contain infinitely different futures. The possibilities in our lives are, quite literally, endless....
Blood Knot
Oct 21 – Nov 13, 2022
In Apartheid South Africa, two brothers, one light-skinned, the other, dark, live and dream of a different world....
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Sep 21 – Oct 14, 2018
When Christopher Boone, a Maths Savant on the Autism spectrum, discovers his neighbor's dog has been murdered, he decides to act like Sherlock Holmes and...
Oleanna
Aug 17 – Sep 9, 2018
Marty Epstein directs David Mamet's play about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual...
Sense and Sensibility
Aug 17 – Sep 9, 2018
"Sense and Sensibility" by Jon Jory, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (February 17 – March 18, 2012) Fortune lost to fate. Romance lost...
Shakespeare on the Plaza Presents: As you Like It and Merry Wives of Windsor
Jun 8 – Jul 1, 2018
For the fifthyear, the Vortex Theatre teams with the City of Albuquerque and Garcia Automotive to present Shakespeare on the Plaza. This year's plays are...
Mary Stuart
Feb 16 – Mar 11, 2018
Schiller's play pits Mary, Queen of Scots against her rival Queen Elizabeth I. The meeting never happened but, as Goethe said, “It will be good...
The Father
Jan 12 – Feb 4, 2018
Now 80 years old, André was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter, Anne, and her husband, Antoine. Or was André an engineer,...
Absurd Person Singular
Dec 1 – Dec 23, 2017
Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. A wild comedy of behind the scenes disasters and British...
Blood Wedding
Oct 27 – Nov 19, 2017
Based on a true story, dramatized by Federico Garcia Lorca in a new translation by Caridad Svitch, directed by Valli Marie Rivera. Magic and Music,...
The Realistic Joneses
Sep 22 – Oct 15, 2017
In The Realistic Joneses, we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and Pony, two suburban couples who have even more in common...
She Kills Monsters
Aug 25 – Sep 10, 2017
She Kills Monsters is a dramatic comedy filled with Dungeons and Dragons, nerd culture, and epic on-stage battles against homicidal fantasy foes. The play tells...
The Iceman Cometh
Mar 17 – Apr 9, 2017
James Cady directs a cast of 20 in Eugene O'Neill's magnificent play. The drunks and prostitutes at Harry's Bar maintain a haze of illusions until...
I Wanna Hold Your Hand: An Evening of One Acts
Jan 4 – Jan 20, 2013
The Vortex Theatre is proud to present an evening of one-act plays directed by three of Albuquerque's most exciting young artists. From the minds of...
Peter Pan
Jan 6 – Jan 29, 2012
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up is a modern retelling of the original Peter Pan story by the distinguished British playwrights...
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