NEW MEXICO ACTORS LAB

The NMAL 2024 season closes with Mat Smart’s Eden Prairie, 1971 , directed by Nicholas Ballas. On the same night Apollo 15 makes its lunar ...

Zoe Lesser returns to New Mexico Actors Lab to direct Pulitzer Prize finalist Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery, a scrupulously hewn drama ...

Lanford Wilson’s explosive drama, Burn This , explores the spiritual and emotional yearnings of Anna, a dancer in NYC, and her unexpected love affair with ...

New Mexico Actors Lab opens its Tenth Anniversary 2024 Fall Season with the world premiere of Carolyn Gage’s Georgia and the Butch , directed by ...

Oleanna , by Pulitzer Prize-winner and Tony-nominated David Mamet, portrays the power struggle between John, a university professor up for tenure, and Carol, one of ...

In Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties,  Zoe, a black 20-year-old undergraduate, is called to a meeting with Janine, a liberal white Ivy League professor, to discuss Zoe’s ...

SPECIAL BENEFIT PERFORMANCES OF A STAGED READING BY MEREDITH BAXTER AND MICHAEL GROSS, STARS OF TV’s FAMILY TIES! FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY: April 11-13 at 7:30 ...

While New Mexico Actors Lab’s previous production looked to the future to examine contemporary problems associated with technology, it’s final production of the 2023 season ...

As entertainment industry strikes fueled by worries about artificial intelligence drag on and ChatGPT generates both essays and angst in academia, the New Mexico Actors ...

A bit of seaside fantasy serves as the platform for Albee’s deep dive into Evolution, Aging, Prejudice and, of course, Marriage.  Nicholas Ballas’ direction of ...

Seascape , a two-act play by American playwright Edward Albee that won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will be directed by Nicholas Ballas. According ...

Attend the first table reading and discussion of a play to see where the process begins -- then return for the opening night on Friday, ...

Prolific English playwright Simon Stephens’ play, Morning Sun , which debuted in New York in October 2021, spans 50 years of one woman’s life, revealing ...

When it debuted at New York’s Joseph Papp Public Theater in November 1994, the New York Times proclaimed, " Simpatico is a breathtaking succession of ...

Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross return to New Mexico Actors Lab for another Valentine week benefit, this time performing an adaptation by David Birney of ...

Spring Awakening explodes onto the stage with a raw and powerful exploration of teenage angst and sexual awakening in a repressed society. Set in late ...

In Jon Robin Baitz's OTHER DESERT CITIES, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, ...

The world is getting hotter, there’s unrest overseas—the seas themselves aren’t very calm—and one couple is thinking about having a child. LUNGS is a smart ...

The Lifespan of a Fact is a play that explores the often messy intersection of truth and storytelling. It centers around John D'Agata, a magazine ...

n reasons to be pretty, Greg’s tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker’s pretty face and his ...

The Los Angeles premiere of an outrageous comedy with a killer heart by acclaimed British playwright and provocateur Philip Ridley. In this viciously funny satire ...

Two retired nuclear scientists reside in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Together they are going to live forever ...

"A poignant and funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably," says Variety. After Callie meets Sara, the two ...

Is what you remember ever what really happened? With this enigmatic tumble through time, two men circle each other in the limbo of logic, recovering ...

Three Tall Women was written shortly after the death of Edward Albee’s adoptive mother, and it remains his most personal play. Wickedly funny, and told ...

In the final scene of Ibsen's 1879 ground-breaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life ...