Entertainment

‘Young Frankenstein’ Vignettes Begin Brown Bag Season

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LAAC News:

It’s always free and always entertaining to take a lunch break at the Los Alamos Arts Council’s Brown Bag Performance Series at Fuller Lodge. 

Presenting a wide range of programs, from Beethoven to ballet, opera to jazz, chamber music to bagpipes, these concerts have been entertaining Los Alamos music lovers on their midday breaks since 1973. Brown Bag Performances connect performers to the community. Performances are at noon and typically on the first Wednesday of each month but dates may vary.

The 2015-2016 Brown Bag season begins at noon, Sept. 2 with Los Alamos Light Read More

DALA Announces ‘Nutcracker On The Hill’ Auditions

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Little ballerinas. Photo by Paulo T. Photography
 
Swing dancers in the air. Photo by Paulo T. Photography

DALA News:

Dance Arts Los Alamos (DALA) invites local dancers to audition for its all-new production entitled “Nutcracker on the Hill”. 

The show will be presented during Winterfest Weekend, Dec. 3-6, at Duane Smith Auditorium.

Set in 1944, this original adaptation of the classic holiday ballet is being produced in association with the Los Alamos Historical Society. It will feature swing dancing at historic Fuller Lodge, glow in the dark rats, and a cast of more than 100 dancers Read More

Iguanas Play Summer Concert At Rover Park Tonight

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The Iguanas from New Orleans play Summer Concert at tonight at Rover Park. Photo by Laura Richens
 
By RUSS GORDON
Summer Concert Series

The Iguanas from New Orleans play Los Alamos Summer Concert Series at 7 p.m. today at Rover Park in White Rock. The weather should be fine but remember that may change so dress for anything. The Show will go on.

The Iguanas play a gumbo of Cajun (French-Acadian), Mexican, Mexican-American rock, New Orleans’ rock, jazz & blues plus roots- rock They’ve played all over the world including NPR’s Mountain Stage, Tipitinas, the “Treme” Read More

NMSA Students Perform At Railyard Parking Garage

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Students rehearse for ‘BLIND SPOT.’ Courtesy photo

NMSA News:

BLIND SPOT will be performed at 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20 in the Santa Fe Railyard Garage, 503 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe.

The performance, sponsored by the Santa Fe Parking Division, will take place in the lowest level of the parking garage. Audience can access the performance by stairs or elevator across from the Violet Crown Cinema.

As part of the AHA Festival of Progressive Arts, this event is free, ADA-accessible and open to the public.

Performed and created by 27 New Mexico School for Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM O’DONNELL
Reel Deal Theater  

If you want to see an intense thriller with great acting by Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnon, check out No Escape.

The reviews are mixed, it depends where you look but reviewers who immersed themselves in this film for pure entertainment and action loved it. Those worried about political correctness-not so much. It is big screen entertainment plain and simple.

I’ve been trying to open Love and Mercy for a while now and we finally got it for a one-week run. This film is a portrait of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. It is a journey through Wilson’s music career Read More

‘Fourth Fridays’ Returns To Los Alamos Aug. 28

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CREATIVE DISTRICT News:

Los Alamos Creative District’s Fourth Fridays returns to downtown Los Alamos this Friday, Aug. 28

Designed to get people downtown before the Summer Concert Series begins at 7 p.m., Fourth Fridays is a monthly event that offers special programming at Mesa Public Library, Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos Historical Society, Fuller Lodge Art Center and the Los Alamos Nature Center. 

Fourth Fridays happens on the fourth Friday of each month and also promotes special offerings from participating local businesses.

This month Fourth Friday special events and Read More

Mozart At Bandelier’s ‘Opera On The Rocks’ Sept. 26

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Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott introduces the 2014 ‘Opera On The Rocks’. Courtesy/NPS Photo

BANDELIER News:

The classical music of Mozart will be performed at Bandelier National Monument’s Juniper Campground outdoor amphitheater during the park’s fourth annual “Opera on the Rocks,” Sept. 26.

The family friendly event is an opportunity for those not familiar with opera, as well as opera enthusiasts, to enjoy listening in a special venue.

“We are very proud and honored to sponsor this event,” Bandelier Superintendent Jason Lott said. “It brings music back to this area where Ancestral Read More

Santa Fe Pro Musica Opens Season With OPUS ONE

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OPUS ONE on stage. Courtesy photo

PRO MUSICA News:

Santa Fe Pro Musica opens its 34th Season in September with guest artists from the innovative chamber music ensemble OPUS ONE.

Veterans as well as present members of the world’s most prestigious chamber groups including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Tashi, the Beaux Arts Trio and the Orion and Guarneri String Quartets, OPUS ONE is the result of a mutual love of music making between four extraordinary instrumentalists and friends. As soloists as well as chamber musicians, they are each familiar figures in concert halls Read More

‘Our Lady Of Mariposas’ Opens In Santa Fe Sept. 3

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Esperanza (Maya Sanchez), left, and her neighbor Kate (Liza Frolkis) share a moment together in ‘Our Lady of Mariposas.’ Courtesy photo

THEATER News:

Teatro Paraguas launches its 12th season with a premiere production of Santa Fe playwright Alix Hudson’s play Our Lady of Mariposas, beginning Thursday, Sept.3.

The play, which builds a story of a family in southeastern New Mexico around the massive die-off of monarch butterflies in the winter of 2002, will be presented at Teatro Paraguas Studio through Sunday, Sept. 16.

Manuel (Jason Jaramillo), an immigrant from Mexico, is Read More