Miss Jairus, a Mystery in Four Tableaux

by Michel de Ghelderode This third production of THEATERWORK’s 17th season in Santa Fe – following on ELEEMOSYNARY (Blessing) and BEAUTY OF THE FATHER (Cruz) – promises to be romantic, colorful, brimming with theatricality and surprises from start to finish. A textbook list of “romantic characteristics” includes: concern with the historical past; a sense of national...

Poetry Out Loud Visits

David Olson, Artistic Director of THEATERWORK, is visiting cities in the State – at the invitation of New Mexico Arts – to work with young people who will be participating in the POETRY OUT LOUD program this year. This work is taking him to high schools in Albuquerque , Rio Rancho, Clovis, Las Cruces, Deming, Raton and Bloomfield. He will be working with more than...

Beauty of the Father

by Nilo Cruz Performances: [at the James A. Little Theater] February 8 - 17th, February 2013 This play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz is set in Andalusia, Spain, where the restless ghost of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca still wanders through the streets and converses with the living. BEAUTY OF THE FATHER introduces us to a young American woman who travels to this part of the...

Eleemosynary

by Lee Blessing October 19-28 THEATERWORK opens its 17′th Season in Santa Fe with a production of Lee Blessing’s elegant and compelling play ELEEMOSYNARY. The piece was originally commissioned by the Park Square Theatre of St. Paul Minnesota and produced there in August, 1985. ...

Giulietta Dreaming: Voices From the Warsaw Ghetto

by David Matthew Olson This special production, written to feature the work of actors between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, is set in the Warsaw Ghetto in May, 1943. At this point in the history of the organized and brutal extermination of the Jewish population of Europe by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, the population of the ghetto has been reduced from 500,000 to 50,000. Nearly all...