Culture Shock: Melissa Morgan’s Earthy Opening In Madrid And Details On The Alibi’s Art Box Project Another Earth At first glance, painter Melissa Morgan’s Enter Anthropocene embraces an ethereal, flower-childlike bond between humans and nature. But that’s where Cassidy Watt—owner of [...] Sam Adams \ Aug 09, 2012 Read More "Bee Keeper"
Performance Preview: Media Literacy Project’s One-Night Extravaganza Keeps The Line Open For Inmates Media Literacy Project’s One-Night Extravaganza Keeps The Line Open For Inmates Rusita Avila says she knows a simple way to keep people out of prison: Let them talk on the phone. “People who are [...] Christie Chisholm \ Aug 02, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Vortex Cures A Case Of Bipolar Shakespeare In The Winter’s Tale Vortex Cures A Case Of Bipolar Shakespeare “Will,” I’d say, if I’d been in a playwriting class with Shakespeare in the early 1600s. “I like this new play, The Winter’s [...] Leigh Hile \ Aug 02, 2012 Read More
Culture Shock: Alibi’s 20Th Haiku Contest Alibi’s 20 Th Haiku Contest Being a smartass,I could compose a structuredfive-seven-five callTo get you readersto write haiku contest versefor Alibi print.That seems tediousand completely pretentious.Plus, it has [...] Sam Adams \ Jul 26, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Alt’s Lusty Teen Musical Is Uncoordinated Yet Awesome—Kinda Like Your First Time Alt’s Lusty Teen Musical Is Uncoordinated Yet Awesome—Kinda Like Your First Time Consider yourself warned: Spring Awakening is a weird show. Take a late-19 th century German play about school children. Adapt it as a [...] Leigh Hile \ Jul 26, 2012 Read More Some 19 th century teens express their sexual longing through dreamy gazes ... (Cassidy Knight)
Gallery Bite: Boro’s Tattoo Art Show Ink City The walls ooze with sex, bleeding hearts, birds of prey, snakes and skulls. This is the patchwork visual assemblage—comprised of more than 150 [...] Sam Adams \ Jul 19, 2012 Read More
Performance Review: Desert Rose’s Durang Series Struggles To Pin Down A Prickly Playwright Desert Rose’s Durang Series Struggles To Pin Down A Prickly Playwright There are certain playwrights whose brilliance is transcendent. When it comes to staging one of their plays, the selection, venue or even language [...] Leigh Hile \ Jul 19, 2012 Read More
Theater News: Southwest Rural Theatre Project Ain’t Afraid Of Small-Town Drama Southwest Rural Theatre Project Ain’t Afraid Of Small-Town Drama When Leslie Joy Coleman was an undergrad at New Mexico Highlands University, she had an experience that forever changed her understanding of theatergoing. [...] Leigh Hile \ Jul 12, 2012 Read More
Culture Shock: The Woman In Black Staged In Martineztown And The Luna Project’s Bosque Ode At Open Space Visitor Center No, The Woman in Black is not an enigmatic, art-house Johnny Cash biopic starring Cate Blanchett. It’s playwright Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of the [...] Sam Adams \ Jul 05, 2012 Read More Bosque rendering by Margy O’Brien
Performance Review: Landmark Musicals Animates Independence Day With Song And Dance In 1776 Landmark Musicals Animates Independence Day With Song And Dance It takes a special kind of nerd to appreciate the joy that is 1776. One must be equal parts musical-theater geek, history buff [...] Leigh Hile \ Jul 05, 2012 Read More John Adams (Shawn Wayne King), Thomas Jefferson (David Aubrey) and Benjamin Franklin (Michael Finnegan) (Photo by Max Woltman)