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New Mexico Actors Lab Announces 2025 Season


by A.A. Cristi - November 25, 2024

New Mexico Actors Lab 2025 Season features five engaging and compelling plays by award-winning playwrights: Bike America by Mike Lew (May 1-18), the premiere of local playwright Dale Dunn's A Subtle Kind of Murder (June 5-22), Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith (September 11 - 28), Paula Vo...

New Mexico Actors Lab Closes Season with Mat Smart's EDEN PRAIRIE


by Blair Ingenthron - November 04, 2024

​​​​​​​The New Mexico Actors Lab closes its 2024 season with the New Mexico premiere of Mat Smart's Eden Prairie, 1971, a bittersweet play about two young people during the Vietnam War who struggle to find hope while being crushed by a divided country....

New Mexico Actors Lab to Present Pulitzer Prize Finalist HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING By Will Arbery


by Blair Ingenthron - October 06, 2024

With a high-stakes election fast approaching, the New Mexico Actors Lab production of Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning couldn't be timelier: this Pulitzer Prize finalist is an in-depth exploration into the hearts and minds of Christian Conservativism that offers grace and disarming clarity...

GEORGIA AND THE BUTCH By Carolyn Gage Comes to New Mexico Actors Lab


by Stephi Wild - July 22, 2024

 New Mexico Actors Lab will open its Tenth Anniversary 2024 Fall Season with the world premiere of Carolyn Gage's Georgia and the Butch, directed by Robert Benedetti as a staged reading performed by Suzanne Lederer, Kat Sawyer, and Mary Beth Lindsey. ...

New Mexico Actors Lab Offers 2024 Fall Season Flex-pass For Four Plays


by Stephi Wild - July 22, 2024

New Mexico Actors Lab has announced its Fall Season of four powerful and provocative plays by award-winning playwrights. Learn more about the season here!...

New Mexico Actors Lab To Present THE NICETIES And OLEANNA In Repertory


by A.A. Cristi - May 20, 2024

New Mexico Actors Lab opens its 2024 season with plays, THE NICETIES and OLEANNA, presented in rotating repertory from May 23 to June 16 in Santa Fe....

New Mexico Actors Lab Will Host its Third Annual Benefit in April


by Stephi Wild - January 23, 2024

To inaugurate its 10th anniversary season, New Mexico Actors Lab has announced that Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross will return for a third benefit production, this time performing a staged reading of Lanford Wilson's endearing love story, Talley's Folly. ...

Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Albuquerque Awards; Voting Ends 12/31


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Albuquerque Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Albuquerque Awards; Voting Ends 12/31


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Albuquerque Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Upstart Crows of Santa Fe to Present MACBETH in January


by Blair Ingenthron - December 23, 2023

Upstart Crows of Santa Fe presents Macbeth, a Blackfriars production directed by Rylie Philpot, performing at the New Mexico Actors Lab on January 19th-21st and 26th-28th. Tickets available online or at the door....

Past Shows

Eden Prairie, 1971
Eden Prairie, 1971
11/13 - 12/1/2024


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 ...

Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
10/9 - 10/27/2024


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 ...

Burn This
Burn This
9/4 - 9/22/2024


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 ...

Georgia and the Butch
Georgia and the Butch
8/9 - 8/18/2024


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 David Mamet
Oleanna by David Mamet
5/15 - 6/16/2024


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 ...

The Niceties
The Niceties
5/8 - 6/16/2024


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 ...

Talley's Folley by Lanford Wilson


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 ...

JQA
JQA
11/15 - 12/3/2023


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 ...

THE NETHER
THE NETHER
10/19 - 10/29/2023


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 ...

Seascape
Seascape
9/6 - 9/24/2023


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
Seascape
9/6 - 9/24/2023


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 ...

Page to Stage: SEASCAPE by Edward Albee


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

Morning Sun
Morning Sun
6/7 - 6/25/2023


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 ...

Simpatico
Simpatico
5/3 - 5/21/2023


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 ...

Mark Twain's The Diaries of Adam and Eve


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
6/24 - 7/3/2022


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 ...

Other Desert Cities
10/28 - 11/14/2021


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, ...

Lungs
9/30 - 10/17/2021


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 Cradle Will Rock
9/2 - 9/19/2021

The Lifespan of a Fact
8/5 - 8/22/2021


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 ...

reasons to be pretty
9/10 - 9/27/2020


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 ...

Radiant Vermin
7/9 - 7/26/2020


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 ...

The Children (Kirkwood)
6/4 - 6/21/2020


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 ...

Stop Kiss
7/11 - 7/28/2019


"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 ...

No Man's Land
6/6 - 6/23/2019


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
6/6 - 6/23/2019


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 ...

A Doll's House, Part 2
5/9 - 5/26/2019


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 ...

Videos


Rigoletto in Albuquerque Rigoletto
Santa Fe Opera (7/12 - 8/20)
Die Walküre in Albuquerque Die Walküre
Santa Fe Opera (7/26 - 8/21)
Dirty Dancing in Concert in Albuquerque Dirty Dancing in Concert
Popejoy Hall (3/2 - 3/2)
Ain't Too Proud (Non-Equity) in Albuquerque Ain't Too Proud (Non-Equity)
Popejoy Hall (4/24 - 4/27)
Michael Feinstein in Because of You My Tribute to Tony Bennett starring the Carnegie Hall Ensemble in Albuquerque Michael Feinstein in Because of You My Tribute to Tony Bennett starring the Carnegie Hall Ensemble
Popejoy Hall (3/9 - 3/9)
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - A Celebration of the Music of Aretha Franklin in Albuquerque R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - A Celebration of the Music of Aretha Franklin
Popejoy Hall (2/13 - 2/13)
DIVINING BERNHARDT: in Albuquerque DIVINING BERNHARDT:
Q-Staff Theatre (2/20 - 2/23)
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