ABQ Theatre Guild Announces September Events, Include CANDIDA & CHICAGO

The Albuquerque Theatre Guild has announced its September 2010 Performance Calendar. More theatrical performances take place every weekend here in Albuquerque than in any other U.S. city of its size.

Thru September 3 | Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m.

After Darwin - by Timberlake Wertenbaker. This
is a richly layered and thought provoking "play-within-a-play." During
rehearsals for a production about Charles Darwin and his captain of The Beagle,
Robert Fitzroy, four theater professionals deal with their own issues of natural
selection and survival of the fittest. Info: Explora, 1701 Mountain
Road NW, 224-8341, http://www.explora.us <http://www.explora.us/>.
Price: Explora
members $5.50; non-members $7.

 

 

Thru September 5 | Friday
& Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 4.

HOT L
Baltimore - by Langford Wilson, directed
by Lou Graham. Set in the lobby of the Hotel Baltimore,
it focuses on the residents of the decaying property who are faced with eviction
when the structure is condemned. The play draws its title from the
hotel's neon marquee with a
burned-out letter "e"
which was never replaced. Info: Desert Rose Playhouse, 6921 Montgomery
Blvd NE, 881-0503, www.desertroseplayhouse.com
<http://www.desertroseplayhouse.com/>. Price: $12, Seniors, Students
or
ATG members $10.

 

Thru September 5 | Friday
& Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 2.

A Life in the Theater - by
David Mamet, directed by Jim Cady. "A Life in the Theatre" is one of
American playwright David Mamet's early successes. The
two-character drama/comedy has hallmarks of Mamet's later work: intense
characters; taut, revealing dialogue; and a mentor/teacher relationship.
Describing life in the footlights from an actor's point of view, "A
Life in the Theatre" focuses on the
relationship between two thespians: Robert, an older, experienced performer;
and John, a relative newcomer. Though Robert's guidance is welcomed by
John at first, as the
play progresses Robert falters as an actor and mentor, and John emerges as a
mature actor. Info: Adobe Theater, 9813 Fourth St. NW, 898-9222,
http://www.adobetheater.org.
Price: $14, Seniors or Students $12

 

September 3-26
| Thursdays &
Fridays at 8,
Saturdays at 6 and Sundays at 2.

Moby Dick - adapted
from the book by Herman Melville by Julian
Rad with Hillary Adams and directed by Julia Thudium. Mother Road
Theatre Company continues its 2010 season themed "Love &
Madness" with "Moby Dick," a play with music. The outstanding ensemble
cast includes veterans of the Albuquerque
theatre scene: Vic Browder, Peter Diseth, Brian Haney, Marc Lynch, Ruben
Muller, Kelly O'Keefe, Ernest W. Sturdevant, and, Nicholas Ballas as Ahab.Info:
Mother Road Theatre
Company at the Filling Station, 1024 4th St. SW, www.motherroad.org.
Price: $16, Seniors or Students $14.

September 3-26
| Fridays
& Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 2. Preview performance Thursday, September
2

Picasso at the Lapin Agile - by Steve Martin, directed by Beth Welt. Steve
Martin's play
hilariously explores very serious questions about love and happiness and the
meaning of life. It is rich with equal parts pain and slapstick humor, torment
and wit. "Picasso
at the Lapin Agile," Steve Martin's first full-length play, opened at
Chicago's Steppenwolf
Theater before moving on to Los Angeles (where it was the longest-running show
in the history of the Westwood Playhouse) and, finally, to New York. An
imagined meeting of Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in 1904 - when both men
were in their twenties - it is a compelling examination of science and art and
their impact on a rapidly changing society, as the two men engage in a battle
of ideas about probability. Info: Auxiliary Dog Theatre, 3011
Monte Vista Blvd NE, 254-7716, http://www.auxdog.org. Price: $16,
September 5 is pay-what-you-can.

September 3-26 | Fridays &
Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 6.

Crimes of the Heart - by Beth Henley, directed by Lee Kitts. The
Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, reunite at Granddaddy's home in
Mississippi after Babe shoots her abusive husband. Past resentments bubble to
the surface as they're forced to deal with assorted relatives and past
relationships in this tragically comic Pulitzer Prize winner. Info: The
Vortex Theatre, 2004 1/2 Central SE, 247-8600,
http://www.vortexabq.org <http://www.vortexabq.org/>. Price:
$15, Student rush 10 minutes before curtain $10, September 5 is pay what you
will.

 

September 9-12
| Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7 and Sunday at 4.

Red Umbrellas - written
and directed by M. E. Iha. A new musical play that has
nothing to do with rain. Eight prostitutes from
across the globe have all arrived at the Pensione Villa Mancaza in Venice,
Italy after a day at the first and only 2001 World Congress of Sex Workers, a
gathering seeking to bring attention to the lack of legal and human rights for
sex workers and the damage of new trafficking laws to women who choose to be in
the business. These prostitutes each have a story to tell and tell it in
poetry, song, laughter, and some heated debate, especially when an expert
arrives to challenge their viewpoints and set them straight. Their wants
surprising, their methods clear, the prostitutes take you on a journey into
their world where experiences are painful and red umbrellas. Info: South
Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd. SE, 848-1320,
http://www.redumbrellasthemusicalabq.com
Price: $18-27, Students or Seniors $14-17.

 

September 17- 26 | Fridays & Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 2.

Rag and Bone - by
Noah Haidle. Two brothers, Jeff and George,
run The Ladder Store, which is actually a front for their business in
black-market hearts. In this
world, hearts are bought and sold for people who can't
feel enough. The play begins when George steals the heart of a poet. The play
then follows the poet with no heart; a hooker with a heart of gold; T-Bone, her
pimp who feels too damn much; and the Millionaire, who eventually receives the
poet's heart and sees a whole different world. Jeff and George recently lost
their mother, but they put her heart into George's body, and all of a
sudden he's wearing a dress, drinking
martinis and cooking pot roasts. This is a heartfelt (excuse the pun) comedy
about the limits of feeling, and the consequences of either feeling nothing or
too damn much.Info: Blackout
Theatre at The Box , 100 Gold Ave SW #112, 404-1578,
http://www.theboxabq.coM. Price: $12, Seniors or Students $8.

 

September 17- October 10 | Fridays &
Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 2.

Candida - by George Bernard Shaw,
directed by
Brian Hansen. The high-minded and articulate Rev.
James Morrell (40-ish) is the toast of London, speaking every night on Fabian
Socialism and self-improvement. He is married to the ravishing Candida who
makes the perfect helpmeet. Into their lives pops Eugene Marchbanks, a suitably
miserable young Romantic poet who has been sleeping in a nearby park. When he
announces that he is in love with Candida, he demands that she choose between
him and Morrell. Will Candida stay or go? Info: Adobe Theater, 9813
Fourth St. NW, 898-9222, http://www.adobetheater.org. Price:
$14, Seniors or Students $12

 

September 17- October 10 | Fridays &
Saturdays at 8 and Sundays at 2. Thursday, September 30 at 8.

Chicago
- book by
Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred
Ebb, directed by Henry Avery. Premiering in
1975 and the hit of the 1997 Broadway season in a production that originated at
City Center's Encore! series, "Chicago" won six Tony Awards including
Best Revival and later the Academy Award
as Best Picture of the Year.
In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a
faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap...until
he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death
row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the
spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the
American dream:
fame, fortune and acquittal. This sharp edged satire features a dazzling score
that sparked immortal staging by Bob Fosse. Info: Albuquerque LIttle
Theatre, 224 San Pasquale Ave SW, 242-4750,
http://www.albuquerquelittletheatre.org. Price: $24, Seniors $20,
Students $18.

 

September 18 | Saturday at 1 and 3 p.m.

Frank Oppenheimer: Of
Bombs and Museums. "Meet"
the brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer who started the Exploratorium in San
Francisco. Info: Explora, 1701 Mountain Road NW,
224-8341, http://www.explora.us <http://www.explora.us/>. Price: Free with
Explora general admission.

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