THE VORTEX THEATRE

A woman learans the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel.  ADULCONTENT - not appropriate for children under 14....

This high-flying comedy is set in an alternate universe and examines the politics of marriage, gender, and the limitations of experience during a run for ...

The Pulitzer-prize winning playwright, August Wilson, is famous for masterpieces like Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and The Piano Lesson. Jitney takes us on a ...

World premiere of a new play by Glaad Award Winner John Dayton Cerna.  "The Art of Raising Anything," invites you into the lives of two ...

The Wickhams  takes audiences to Pemberley's downstairs servants' quarters for the Christmas celebration. Mrs. Reynolds, the housekeeper, Cassie, an eager new maid, and Brian, a ...

One apartment. Two different eras. Each creating unlikely friendships. In 2015, reluctant coworkers Hal and Cassie are investigating a sad hoarder mess, sifting through the ...

Set at the end of the 19th century,  Dracula  is an absurdist adaptation by post-modernist playwright Mac Wellman ( A Murder of Crows ,  The ...

Suppose that life exists in a multiverse—a set of parallel existences that contain infinitely different futures. The possibilities in our lives are, quite literally, endless. ...

Suppose that life exists in a multiverse—a set of parallel existences that contain infinitely different futures. The possibilities in our lives are, quite literally, endless. ...

PARFUMERIE was written by Miklós László, a Hungarian playwright, in 1936. The play is little known but several movies were derived from it - The ...

In Apartheid South Africa, two brothers, one light-skinned, the other, dark, live and dream of a different world....

When Christopher Boone, a Maths Savant on the Autism spectrum, discovers his neighbor's dog has been murdered, he decides to act like Sherlock Holmes and ...

Marty Epstein directs David Mamet's play about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual ...

"Sense and Sensibility" by Jon Jory, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (February 17 – March 18, 2012) Fortune lost to fate. Romance lost ...

Nevada Conservatory Theatre presents the classic musical, The Fantasticks, featuring music by Harvey Schmidt, with lyrics by Tom Jones. Two neighboring fathers put up a ...

For the fifthyear, the Vortex Theatre teams with the City of Albuquerque and Garcia Automotive to present Shakespeare on the Plaza. This year's plays are ...

Mynx and Savage is a winner of the American Association of Community Theatres 2018 New Playfest and written by Rebecca Gorman O’Neill. It is a ...

After losing her Mississippi home to creditors, Blanche du Bois relocates to the New Orleans home of her younger sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley ...

Schiller's play pits Mary, Queen of Scots against her rival Queen Elizabeth I. The meeting never happened but, as Goethe said, “It will be good ...

Now 80 years old, André was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter, Anne, and her husband, Antoine. Or was André an engineer, ...

Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. A wild comedy of behind the scenes disasters and British ...

Based on a true story, dramatized by Federico Garcia Lorca in a new translation by Caridad Svitch, directed by Valli Marie Rivera. Magic and Music, ...

In The Realistic Joneses, we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and Pony, two suburban couples who have even more in common ...

She Kills Monsters is a dramatic comedy filled with Dungeons and Dragons, nerd culture, and epic on-stage battles against homicidal fantasy foes. The play tells ...

James Cady directs a cast of 20 in Eugene O'Neill's magnificent play. The drunks and prostitutes at Harry's Bar maintain a haze of illusions until ...

Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes is nominated to be the Surgeon General of the United States and appears to be a certainty. She is the daughter ...

The Vortex Theatre is pleased to announce the revival of its rowdy, dynamic, and timely political play festival by New Mexico writers. This is your ...

Performed as part of Shakespeare on the Plaza, a collaborative project of The Vortex and the City of Albuquerque...

Peformed in the Civic Plaza as part of Shakespeare on the Plaza, a collaborative project between The Vortex and the City of Albuquerque...

In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play) is Ruhl's witty and smart play detailing the treatment of women for "hysteria" in the 1880s, after the ...

Set in the small town of Guadalupe, New Mexico just after World War II, Antonio Márez y Luna (Tony) tells his story from the memories ...

The play is introduced to the audience by Tom, the narrator and protagonist, as a memory play based on his recollection of his mother Amanda ...

The Vortex Theatre and the City of Albuquerque (Cultural Services Division) are partnering to produce Shakespeare outdoors in the summer of 2014. Romeo and Juliet ...

'Night, Mother is a 1983 play by Marsha Norman about a daughter, Jessie, and her mother, Thelma. The play opens with Jessie calmly telling Mama ...

The Western States premier! An adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses for two actors....

The Vortex entry in ABQ's Irish Theatre Festival is one of the epic plays of the 20th century. O'Casey's gritty tale of poverty, survival, and ...

The Pulitzer-nominated comedy in its Southwest Premiere....

On St. George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day pied piper, is a wanted man. The ...

Our Young Directors Project presents a trio of interconnected one-act plays, written by prize-winning playwrights Joe Pintauro, Lanford Wilson, and Terrence McNally, and directed by ...

A variety of 8-10 minute plays, monologues, poetry, musical pieces, and dance, presenting holiday reflections, themes, points-of-view, and stories from different cultures, religions, races, and ...

Can hard work, ambition, and dedication lift Americans out of poverty into affluence, or is it ultimately luck that separates those who prosper from those ...

This Obie Award-winning play is a darkly comic exploration of one American family in their struggle to retain home ownership against outside influences that seem ...

The Holocaust was a horrific tragedy for all humanity and dramatizing the topic is difficult at best. That is why playwright Richard Atkins has chosen ...

Straight out of the Mad Men era comes this lighthearted look at marital infidelity, viewed through the lens of 1950s morality. Richard Sherman is alone ...

A CRACK IN THE WALL is a drama about two families, one Jewish and one Catholic, several weeks prior to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of ...

The Vortex Theatre is proud to present an evening of one-act plays directed by three of Albuquerque's most exciting young artists. From the minds of ...

by David Mamet Directed by Harry Zimmerman Newly promoted movie exec Bobby Gould and his long-time colleague, Charlie Fox, celebrate certain success with a guaranteed ...

Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up is a modern retelling of the original Peter Pan story by the distinguished British playwrights ...

Caridad Svich's play re-imagines the story of Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits (1983) through the passionate and resilient spirit of Alba and the ...

On a bare terrace stroll two old gentlemen greet each other courteously. They discuss topics: the past, the weather, old friends, moustache-styles, and the war. ...

Loot, Joe Orton's over-the-top British farce, has been described by USA Today as "Oscar Wilde crossed with Monty Python." Loot follows the capers of Hal ...

Staged reading. Memories of Myth takes the Modern Woman back to herself by way of story. The play explores the simple but profound lessons from ...