Theatre
TEDxABQ Imagine Albuquerque
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM6 pm Friday 1 pm Saturday Celebrate the ideas, people, and culture of New Mexico. New TEDx talks by remarkable speakers, memorable performances, and one-of-a-kind audience experiences. TEDxABQ is a gathering of minds and community with new ideas and original thinking in every discipline. One Day Ticket: Friday—Adults $35, Students $25 & One Day VIP ticket $105 Saturday—Adults $55, Students $35 & One Day VIP ticket $105 Two Day Ticket: VIP Ticket—$155 The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization (more...)
Atacama—A World Premiere
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-MeetingSeptember 28-30 & October 5-7, 2018 7:30 pm—Friday-Saturday 2 pm—Sunday Augusto Federico Amador’s Atacama is a play about a man and a woman who meet in the northern Chilean desert while searching for bone fragments of loved ones disappeared by the Pinochet regime, and find a deep and unsettling connection that shakes their souls. Juliet Salazar directs Bernadette Peña and James R. Chávez in this taut psychological drama. Finalist for the 2018 BBC International Playwriting Competition, runner up for the National Latino Playwriting Award,and 50 Playwright Project's (more...)
New Mexico Philharmonic: Bountiful Bach (Rental)
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM3 pm New Mexico Philharmonic presents Bountiful Bach Roberto Minczuk, Music Director, Hannah Stephens, soprano Coro Lux, Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3, Bach Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in a/fen Landen, BWV 51 Bach Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 Bach's festive Orchestral Suite No. 3 includes colorful trumpets and the famous "Air on the G String." Star lyric coloratura soprano Hannah Stephens shines in Bach's stunning Cantata No. 51, and the city 's own Coro Lux adds to the Baroque bounty in the NMPhil's (more...)
Ballet Folklórico de Mexico de Amalia Hernández
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM7:30 pm Ballet Folklórico de México was formed in 1952 by the dancer and choreographer Amalia Hernández. For six decades it has presented dances that reflect the traditional culture of Mexico, including indigenous Mesoamerica. The ensemble performs three times weekly at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. Additionally, it has toured widely and has appeared in over 80 countries, including a private performance at the White House for President and Mrs. Kennedy and command performances at the feet of the Sphinx in Egypt, bringing the (more...)
Tricklock Company and the NHCC Presents Sur Oeste: Vuelo transoceánico
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-3010 am—Friday (student matinee) 2 pm—Saturday Mexico City’s Sur Oeste is dedicated to the creation, production, and presentation of theatre, dance, audiovisual, and/or multidisciplinary works, focusing in recent years on the specific areas of theatre and dance. Their repertoire of over 20 productions has been presented in Mexico, the U.S., Panama, Argentina, and Brazil. Vuelo transoceánico, a show for younger audiences, is the story of Charles Lindbergh’s historic solo flight across the Atlantic: triumphing over storms, fog, and ice to achieve his impossible dream and become the (more...)
Opera Southwest Presents Puccini’s Tosca (Rental)
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NMOctober 28 & 31 and November 2 & 4, 2018 2 pm -- Sundays 7:30 pm—Wednesday & Friday Opera Southwest presents Puccini’s Tosca, a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles and presented in three acts with one intermission. One of the greatest hits in the operatic repertoire, Tosca tells the dramatic love story of Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi. This thrilling melodrama is matched by an equally powerful score and inventive orchestration. Maestro Anthony Barrese conducts. $15, $29, $45, $59, $75, (more...)
Su Teatro and the NHCC Present Interview with a Mexican
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting7:30 pm—Thursday-Saturday 2 pm—Sunday Interview with a Mexican is based on conversations with Gustavo Arellano, columnist and author of Ask a Mexican and Taco USA. Adapted for the stage by Anthony J. Garcia, Executive Artistic Director of Denver’s Su Teatro, it is a carnival of conversations and random perspectives about what it means to be a Mexican, inside or outside the US. Development of the work was funded by the National Performance Network, which has as commissioning partners Su Teatro, MACLA, Colorado State University-Pueblo, and the NHCC. (more...)
Film: Bless Me, Ultima
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm This month, the NHCC is offering another screening of the film Bless Me, Ultima in conjunction with La Ultima Exhibición, which will be closing on December 16, 2018. Curated by Augustine Romero, the exhibition in the NHCC Art Museum Community Gallery features visual interpretations of Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved novel. If you haven’t yet seen this popular exhibition, now is the time to go! The screen adaptation of Anaya's iconic work, set in the 1940s in rural New Mexico, is the story of a young boy (more...)
An Unpredictable Evening with Todd Rundgren (Rental)
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM8 pm A Wizard, A True Star. The title of Todd Rundgren's 1973 solo album aptly sums up this multi-faceted artist’s contributions to state-of-the-art music. As a songwriter, video pioneer, producer, recording artist, computer software developer, conceptualist, and interactive artist (re-designated TR-i), Rundgren has made a lasting impact on both the form and the content of popular music. $34, $44, $54 The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization renting the NHCC venue for the event. By serving (more...)
Film: Tortilla Soup
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-307 pm In this comedy-drama inspired by Eat Drink Man Woman, widower Martin Naranjo, the former chef-owner of a gourmet restaurant, shares a Los Angeles home with his three single adult daughters. Though he long ago lost his ability to taste, Martin still lives to cook lavish dinners for his loved ones and serve them in a family-style ritual at traditional sit-down meals. Although the women humor their father’s old-fashioned ways, each of them is searching for fulfillment outside the family circle. Presented in partnership with Instituto Cervantes (more...)