Theatre
(CANCELLED) UNM Dept of Chicana & Chicano Studies: Ballet Folklorico: Noche de Folklore
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NMNote: This event has been moved to the Barelas Community Center. Please check with the UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies for new date and time. Ballet Folklorico Spring 2024 class in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at UNM will be closing the semester out with a community performance as their final. Please come and join us as we witness the students' hard work in this end of semester final performance. This is a free community event. Please let us know who will be attending (more...)
Baila! Baila!’s Christmas in New Mexico
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM2:00 pm & 7:00 pm Saturday 2:00 pm Sunday Baila! Baila!’s annual holiday show is a whirlwind extravaganza, taking audiences on a journey through the sights and sounds of Christmas in New Mexico and Christmases around the World. Music, song, and dance with the traditional Southwestern flair that has been cultivated in our state over the generations, as well as unique segments saluting Christmas traditions from around the world, will delight theatre-goers of all ages. In 2024, Baila! Baila! will be celebrating their 35th year in spectacular (more...)
Magnify Dance Ensemble: Christmas Joy
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM2 pm & 6:30 pm Saturday 2 pm Sunday NHCC | Albuquerque Journal Theatre Magnify Dance Ensemble presents Christmas Joy. Come, Experience the Miracle! Awaken your heart to the true Spirit of Christmas in dance as Magnify Dance Ensemble will present the 40th season of its Bravos Award-winning holiday production, Christmas Joy. Over sixty-five classically trained dancers will once again inspire audiences in the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Albuquerque Journal Theater. They come to us with a collection of moving and inspirational classical ballet, jazz and contemporary (more...)
Opera Southwest: New Year’s with the Opera!
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM2:30 pm Opera Southwest presents New Year’s with the Opera! Featuring Clay Hilley & Sara Duchovnay Close out 2024 and begin 2025 with featured performers tenor Clay Hilley and soprano Sara Duchovnay. Clay Hilley makes an exciting return to Opera Southwest after his stunning portrayal of Radamès in “Aida” back in 2015. Clay comes to us directly from the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He has earned rave reviews from the New York Times and Financial Times, and he continues to shine in some of opera’s most illustrious heroic roles. Sara Duchovnay has been hailed (more...)
East Mountain Dance: Cinderella!
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM2:00 pm & 6:30 pm East Mountain Dance presents a fairytale favorite, “Cinderella!” the ballet. Cinderella, a young woman who is mistreated and underestimated by her stepmother and stepsisters, overcomes adversity and hardship with a little encouragement, guidance, and magic from her mystical Fairy Godmother. Join us as we follow Cinderella from dust and rags, through a garden of fairies, to a splendid ball at the palace, and back home where she finds herself awakening from the dream that is about to become her reality. Set to (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Volavérunt
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours) All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy This blockbuster, Volavérunt, directed by Bigas Luna with an international cast and crew, stars Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who plays the Duchess of Alba. Doña Cayetana was a key woman in the court of King Carlos IV with a personality based on intrigue, passion, and desire. The film's title evokes an ambiguity that can (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Celos
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours) All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy After many years of trying to make the film Celos, the great Spanish filmmaker Vicente Aranda delves into the complicated territory of jealousy to narrate an agonizing and fatal story. This production incorporates the director's obsessions with the limits of love and sexual desire, between which there is always violence. Aitana Sánchez-Gijón's (more...)
Opera Southwest: Llantos 1492
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NMFebruary 16, 19, 21, & 23, 2025 2:00 pm Sundays, 7:30 pm Wednesday & Friday Opera Southwest presents Adam Del Monte’s Llantos 1492, in partnership with the National Institute of Flamenco “Oh, times of light, how they have fallen through the narrow passage of the hourglass into an ashtray of darkness.” The Reconquista is drawing to a close and the Inquisition’s dark cloud is gathering on the Spanish horizon. A lawyer defends a village of gitanos against false accusations. Against a musical backdrop that blends the musical (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours) All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy With the soul of a late-night tango in this film, Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando, the songs and the emotion of the world revolve around the music that dominated leisure in the early 20th century: tango. The film is in conversation with another classic from director Jaime Chávarri, (more...)
Cervantes Film Series: Bajarse al moro
Virtual12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours) All the films can be seen in the link below: https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Honorary Goya When Fernando Colomo undertook this adaptation of a play by the same name, Bajarse al moro, he was already a key director of the cinematic milestone that was called “la comedia madrileña” (The Madrid Comedy) and that featured the auteur cinema of the eighties. This film departs from the festive tone that guided his previous titles to get much closer to his (more...)