Arts

NMSA Theater Department Opens 2015 Season

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Courtesy/NMSA

NMSA News:

New Mexico School for the Arts’ Theater Department will open its 2015 season with Radium Girls, by D. W. Gregory, directed by Joey Chavez and Deborah Potter.

Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls follows the popularity of radium as a medical and industrial product, used for a variety of purposes – from fighting tumors to providing luminous paint for wristwatch faces – until the workers painting them began to fall ill from a mysterious disease. Gregory’s play traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a wristwatch dial painter in the 1920s, as she fights for her day in court.

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This Week At The Reel Deal

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By JIM ODONNELL
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening Unbroken. Thanks to all of you who waited to see it at the Reel Deal. We also have scheduled American Sniper for a Special Screening at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15. Advance tickets are now on sale at our Box Office.

We are holding The Hobbit, Into the Woods and Night at the Museum for another week. Wild will end this Thursday.

Movie Poster for ‘Unbroken.’ Courtesy/ Real Deal Theater

Unbroken: Academy Award (R) winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war Read More

NM School For The Arts Presents ‘Winter Dances’

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A performer in ‘Winter Dances’ Courtesy/Paulo T. Photography

NMSA News:

The New Mexico School for the Arts will present its annual performance series, Winter Dances, an evening of mixed dance repertoire, at two venues.

The company will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, Saturday, Jan. 24 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25 at the James A. Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe.

The company also will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan 31 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1 at the Hiland Theater of National Dance Institute of New Mexico, 4800 Central Ave. SE in Albuquerque.

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County Announces Muni Building Art Plaza Finalists

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COUNTY News:

The County has announced the top three finalists in the competition for art to be installed in the west plaza of the Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave.

The Art in Public Places Board will hold a special event to give the public the opportunity to view the work of the finalists including:

  • “Solar Tree” by Eric Thelander;
  • “The Secret Life of a Cube” by Peter Swedenburg; and
  • “Confluence” by Evelyn Rosenberg and Steve Borbas.

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Play Reading For ‘Avenue Q’ At LALT Wednesday

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‘Avenue Q’ poster. Courtesy/LALT

LALT News:

Los Alamos Little Theatre will hold a play reading for “Avenue Q” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, in the Green Room at the Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St.

“Avenue Q,” a multi-Tony Award-winning musical, will be performed at LALT in May as a joint production with the Dixon Community Players. Auditions are Jan. 17 in Dixon, and Jan. 18 and 19 in Los Alamos.

The play features puppet characters interacting with human characters in a Sesame Street-like vibe. But the lessons these characters learn have more to Read More

Dust Bowl Years Classic ‘Grapes of Wrath’ Thursday

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Poster for ‘Grapes of Wrath.’ Courtesy/rottentomatoes.com

 

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

“The Grapes of Wrath” (1940, unrated), showing Thursday at Mesa Public Library, follows the story of one of hundreds of thousands of Depression-era “Okie” families who head for California and its promises of work.

In this Oscar-winning film based on John Steinbeck’s classic novel of the same name, the Joads and their neighbors have been forced off land their families have been living on for generations. Some of the sharecroppers try to fight, and watch as bulldozers roll over Read More

Brown Bag Series Presents Music & Theater Jan. 7

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LAAC News:

Los Alamos Art Council’s Brown Bag Performance Series presents a scene from Los Alamos Little Theater’s “Murdered to Death” at noon Wednesday, Jan.7 in the Pajarito Room of Fuller Lodge.

The play is directed by Patrick Webb and produced by Laurie Tomlinson. The play opens Jan. 16.

“Murdered to Death” is Peter Gordon’s hilarious spoof of the best Agatha Christie traditions, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight: Bunting the butler, an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip, a shady French art dealer and his moll, bumbling local Read More

Fuller Lodge Art Center Call For Artists Deadline Friday

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ART News:

Fuller Lodge Art Center has issued a Call for Artists.

In Bounds will run Jan. 30 through Feb. 21 at the Art Center at 2132 Central Ave., in downtown Los Alamos.

Fuller Lodge Art Center says, “Almost anything goes … with a few boundaries.”

Get creative with these rules:

  • Artwork may be no larger than one “foot” in any direction.
  • Limit yourself to no more than three colors.  
  • Artwork should include at least two “mediums”.

Let us elaborate … No more than one “foot” in any direction:

  • The artwork itself should be no more
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