Argos MacCallum News

Companía Chuscales y Mina Fajardo, Santa Fe's premiere flamenco dance troupe, joins with Teatro Paraguas to present live performances of Memories of Doña Tules, a tribute in dance, poetry, and music to one of Santa Fe's most notorious and influential women of the 19th century, Doña Maria Gertrudis Barceló, a.k.a. Doña Tules.

Companía Chuscales y Mina Fajardo, Santa Fe's premiere flamenco dance troupe, joins with Teatro Paraguas to present live performances of Memories of Doña Tules, a tribute in dance, poetry, and music to one of Santa Fe's most notorious and influential women of the 19th century, Doña Maria Gertrudis Barceló, a.k.a. Doña Tules.

Teatro Paraguas presents a staged reading of Parted Waters, a play by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin. 

Alix Hudson has been a dynamic force in the Santa Fe theatre scene for the last 8 years as a playwright, director, actor, and technician. Although most of her work has benefitted Teatro Paraguas where she is a Board member, Alix has worked with many Santa Fe companies, including NM Actors Lab, Ironweed Productions, and &Sons Theatre.

Teatro Paraguas presents two classic bilingual cuentos (folktales):  Pulgas en las orejas (Fleas in the Ear), and el Zorro que caminaba (The Fox who Travelled).

Kell was active in the 1960's San Francisco North Beach beat poetry scene, and the poetry and music scene in Albuquerque and Placitas in the 1970's. For years he published Desperado, a poetry anthology. In 1997 he moved into a small cabin south of Santa Fe on a friend's property where he lived for thirteen years until his death in 2011.

Teatro Paraguas presents  Kell Robertson Tribute Poetry Reading, Saturday July 10 at 7:00 p.m. at eatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie.

Companía Chuscales y Mina Fajardo, Santa Fe's premiere flamenco dance troupe, joins with Teatro Paraguas to present a video performance of Naranja y limón, a tribute in dance, poetry, and music to the great Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez (1910-1942).

Companía Chuscales y Mina Fajardo, Santa Fe's premiere flamenco dance troupe, joins with Teatro Paraguas to present a video version of their critically acclaimed production of Una Nota de Lorca, a tribute in dance, poetry, and music to the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936).

Typhoon, part of Teatro Paraguas' local playwrights series, is a 10-minute sketch by Alix Hudson. A silly Valentine's story originally created for  Ironweed Production’s memorable 2016 site-specific production Creating a Scene in a Restaurant, Typhoon makes its Zoom premiere at 7pm on February 12th.

Teatro Paraguas and Lummox Press will present a group poetry reading, Poetry in Time of Covid. The event takes place on Sunday, February 7, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. live on Zoom.

Teatro Paraguas and tech-company Xerb announced this week a partnership to bring the theater’s local Hispanic, Latinx and multicultural performances to the online platform. 

On Wednesday, October 28 at 7:00 p.m., Teatro Paraguas will present a live Zoom performance of Volver Volver Volver, a play by New Mexico playwright Leonard Madrid.  A young man who led a fast and reckless life is called back from the dead by an unknown bruja in Portales, and finds the inner peace which eluded him in life.

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 cinematic route, resulting in an engrossing piece of socially distanced theatre.

Teatro Paraguas will produce a video version of a play that has been considered for production for several years: Red Bike, by prize-winning playwright Caridad Svich.

Teatro Paraguas will present two bilingual cuentos (folktales) and an excerpt from a third at all three Santa Fe Public Library branches during the 7th Annual Santa Fe Public Library Cuentos Tour on April 17-19, 2020. The full-length cuentos will also be presented at Teatro Paraguas Thursday thru Saturday, April 16 through April 18, at 7:00 pm in the evenings.

Teatro Paraguas will welcome back one of their favorite and most prolific Flamenco groups, Compañía Chuscales & Mina Fajardo. Mina Fajardo & Chuscales are award winning artists and musical composers, whose shows are always original and exciting.

Teatro Paraguas will welcome back one of their favorite and most prolific Flamenco groups, Compañía Chuscales & Mina Fajardo. Mina Fajardo & Chuscales are award winning artists and musical composers, whose shows are always original and exciting.

Local playwright, Rebecca Morgan, with the help of JoJo Sena de Tarnoff and Paola Martini, has put a Latinx twist on the favorite french fairie tale featuring a feisty feline who finds fortune for her forlorn friend, Alhertino. Sound like a melodrama? Well, in a way it is a?" only with Kings and Princesses and Ogres and Cats!

Teatro Paraguas presents the 6th Annual El Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) community celebration with an exciting line-up of live music, staged cuentos (folk-tales), a medley of songs, local dancers, poetry, and a short original comedy.