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The Vortex Theatre

2900 Carlisle Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110

Review: BAD MEDICINE at Santa Fe Playhouse

Review: BAD MEDICINE at Santa Fe Playhouse

by Jackie Camborde · August 17, 2026

Sometimes a show seems like it’s of the moment; the plot points and action hits just right for the time. Many times they become iconic parts of the canon for years to come, but some tend to feel like they miss the mark too quickly. Bad Medicine, which has its world premiere at the Santa Fe Playhou…

Review: Santa Fe Playhouse To Present CABARET

Review: Santa Fe Playhouse To Present CABARET

by Jackie Camborde · July 8, 2026

I won't post to X.Imagine my surprise and delight to view this musical through the fresh vision presented by Director Anna Hogan, cast and crew. Let’s begin with the basics, compliments of the Cabaret program:…

Review: THE DROWNING GIRLS at New Mexico Actors Lab

Review: THE DROWNING GIRLS at New Mexico Actors Lab

by Jackie Camborde · June 14, 2026

According to the Director’s note, The Drowning Girls is based on a true story. It tells the tale of three women who lived during the early half of the 20th century; all three were murdered by their husbands, drowned in their bathtubs.  …

Review: AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN at Santa Fe Playhouse

Review: AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN at Santa Fe Playhouse

by Jackie Camborde · May 19, 2026

he thing that stayed with me after this show was the ease and natural ebb and flow of conversation the two actors had; both Malcom-Petty and Sigl had volumes of script to memorize, but both took the words from the page and embodied them. …

Review: POTUS at Santa Fe Playhouse

Review: POTUS at Santa Fe Playhouse

by Jackie Camborde · March 24, 2026

Catch the uproarious antics of POTUS at Santa Fe Playhouse! Experience a day of chaos as seven women navigate the president's blunders.…

Past Shows

21 total · showing 11–20

Oleanna

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 exploitation and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure. Originally a response to the Clarence...

Sense and Sensibility

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 to folly. When a lack of luck makes for difficult marriage prospects, the Dashwood sisters set sail on the volatile seas of courtship...

Mary Stuart

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 to see those two whores alongside each other. Schiller's Mary redeems her youthful crimes through an ordeal that lifts her into realms...

The Father

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, whose daughter Anne lives in London with her new lover, Pierre? The thing is, he is still wearing his pajamas, and he can’t find his watch. He is...

Absurd Person Singular

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 class warfare, in which the little man makes his way to the top.

Blood Wedding

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, love and lust - all on stage.

The Realistic Joneses

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 than their identical homes and their shared last names. As their relationships begin to irrevocably intertwine, the Joneses must decide...

She Kills Monsters

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 story of Agnes Evans, who finds her deceased sister’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook and is transported into the...

The Iceman Cometh

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 Theodore Hickman arrive to sweep it all away. Philip J. Shortell (The Nance, The Sunshine Boys) plays Hickey.

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Persephone, Baby by Melanie Godsey in Albuquerque Persephone, Baby by Melanie Godsey
New Mexico Actors Lab (10/01-10/18)
Jekyll & Hyde The Musical in Albuquerque Jekyll & Hyde The Musical
Farmington Civic Center (10/22-11/01)
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee in Albuquerque Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
New Mexico Actors Lab (8/27-9/13) PHOTOS
THE RIVER in Albuquerque THE RIVER
West End Productions (8/28-9/13)
Hamilton (Angelica Company) in Albuquerque Hamilton (Angelica Company)
Popejoy Hall (8/31-9/12)
Outlander In Concert in Albuquerque Outlander In Concert
Popejoy Hall (11/23-11/23)
Bad Medicine in Albuquerque Bad Medicine
Santa Fe Playhouse (8/06-8/30)
They Must Be Women Now in Albuquerque They Must Be Women Now
Vortex Theatre (8/14-8/30)
Staind, Seether, Hoobastank & Hinder in Albuquerque Staind, Seether, Hoobastank & Hinder
First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater (10/14-10/14)
A Christmas Carol  in Albuquerque A Christmas Carol
Popejoy Hall (12/11-12/11)