Flat Rate Yellow Cab At The Adobe Theater A hapless character is on a quest to find a woman who thinks the taxi-driving profession is romantic . People in the audience [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jun 12, 2008 Read More Michael Lash and Rachel Hroncich in Yellow Cab . (Ossy Werner)
Greece: The Musical The Odyssey At The Filling Station Back in the ’90s, I spent every day for about three weeks in a medium-security INS detention center in Florida. Hundreds of law [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Apr 10, 2008 Read More Vic Browder as Odysseus and Jean Effron as Athena (John Maio)
Ophelia Screams The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) At The Albuquerque Little Theatre There once was a time when the Albuquerque Little Theatre (ALT) catered exclusively to the prim and proper. You could bring your grandma [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Mar 20, 2008 Read More Here’s to you, Willy Shakespeare. (Courtesy of Albuquerque Little Theatre)
Alone In The Dark Madagascar At The Cell Theatre No, this isn’t a live-action version of the computer-animated film from 2005. You remember the one, right? With the usual menagerie of cutesy [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More Jacqueline Reid, Martin Rader and Laurie Thomas in Madagascar. (Zygote Pro-Creations, Inc.)
The Anti-Slumber Party The Pajama Men Burn Up The Stove One of my favorite things about the Pajama Men–the funnyman duo made up of über-buddies Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez–is that on visits [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Jan 31, 2008 Read More (Nolan Rudy)
Step Right Up Human Volcano At The Albuquerque Museum These days, polite people feel guilty about the natural human tendency to stare at other people with physical deformities or quirks. Jump back [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Dec 27, 2007 Read More A turn-of-the-century Albuquerque carnival (Courtesy of The Albuquerque Museum)
I Want My Mtv Belladonna At Theatre X The Tricklock Company deserves its stellar reputation. In show after show, they’ve gone way beyond the call of duty. For years, stuffed inside [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Nov 29, 2007 Read More Abigail H. Blueher as Belladonna. (Chad Johannesen)
Y’feck Yeh The Lieutenant Of Inishmore At The Cell Theatre On a public television biography that aired last week, Charles Schulz admitted to milking a lot of humor from straight-up violence. From a [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Nov 08, 2007 Read More Bruce Holmes and blood-soaked Justin Lenderking (Zygote Pro-Creations, Inc.)
Action Talks, Bullshit Walks American Buffalo At The Vortex Theatre Business and friendship often make for a putrid mix, especially if the “business” in question is the kind where you need to put [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Oct 18, 2007 Read More Rafael Bromberg as Bob, Shangreaux Lagrave as Teach and John Wylie and Don in David Mamet’s American Buffalo . (Amy Dalness)
Amy Yep, it’s true. I’m leaving the Alibi. (Actually, by the time you read this I’ll already be gone.) I did all my major [...] Steven Robert Allen \ Sep 27, 2007 Read More Fred Blanco as César Chávez