Sunday, April 28, 2024
Fair, 64°Wind: 3.5 mph, N
Welcome to our new web site!
To give our readers a chance to experience all that our new website has to offer, we have made all content freely avaiable, through October 1, 2018.
During this time, print and digital subscribers will not need to log in to view our stories or e-editions.
Las Cruces Community Theatre
“The Sound of Music” is Las Cruces Community Theatre’s (LCCT) holiday offering.
The musical, directed by Norman Lewis, will open Friday, Dec. 1, for a three-weekend, 14-show run at LCCT, 313 N. Main St.
The final collaboration between Richard Rogers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), “The Sound of Music” opened on Broadway in 1959 and won Tony awards for best musical, best performance by a leading actress in a musical (Mary Martin) and three others. The musical was based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.”
The 1965 motion picture “The Sound of Music” won five Academy Awards, including best picture and best director.
The LCCT production cast includes Francesca Perez-Wright as Maria, Dustin Wright as Captain Von Trapp and more than two dozen other actors.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Dec. 1-2, 8-9 and 15-16; 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, 10 and 17 and these added performances: 2 p.m. Saturday Dec. 2, 9 and 16 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday Dec. 7 and 14.
Tickets are $20 for adults; $12 for children ages 3-17; $15 for seniors 65 and older, students and military; and $17 for “educator/healthcare/first responder/local gov.”
For tickets, visit www.lcctnm.org/sound-of-music and click on “Select Date and Buy Tickets.”
Call LCCT at 575-523-1200.
LCCT will be a Toys for Tots of Las Cruces toy drop site – look for the big red and white box – Dec. 1-17. You can bring new, unwrapped toys (especially needed are gifts for older children, ages 11-17) to any performance of “The Sound of Music.”
Black Box Theatre
Black Box Theatre (BBT), 430 N. Main St., will present “Ben Hur,” by Patrick Barlow, and directed by Autumn Gieb, Dec. 1-14.
The play is based on the novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ” by New Mexico Territorial Governor Lew Wallace. It opened at the Broadway Theatre in New York City Nov. 29, 1899. A national tour of the play ran for 21 years in the United States, Great Britain and Australia.
In the BBT production, an amateur theatre troupe produces the massive story of Ben-Hur. It includes a chariot race, seat battle and stage combat.
BBT performances of “Ben Hur” are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Dec. 1-2, 8-9 and 15-16; 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10 and 17; and 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14.
Tickets are $15 regular admission, $12 for students and seniors over age 65 and $10 for all seats for the Thursday, Dec. 14 performance.
For tickets and more information, call 575-523-1223. Visit no-strings.org.
Rio Grande Theatre
The holiday offerings at Rio Grande Theatre (RGT) include a screening of the 1989 movie “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, $5), Mesilla Valley Chorale’s live “Swinging Through the Holidays” (3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, $10), A Children’s Theatre of the Mesilla Valley live stage production of “A Snow White Christmas” (7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8 and 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9; $12 ).
“A Snow White Christmas,” according to RGT, tells the story of Santa Claus as he “arrives on stage to tell everyone about a terrible problem: The Wicked Queen hates Christmas and is plotting against Snow White because she brings the lovely winter snow.”
Visit www.achildrenstheatre.org.
The nonprofit Black Conversations Theatre Company of Las Cruces will present “Once,” with book by Enda Walsh and music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Jan. 19-28, 2024, at RGT.
The cast will include Natalie McGuire, Tim Wilbur, Ethan Trujillo, Huge De Billie V, Avery Johnson, Bianca Castro, Liam Day, Chris Quezada, Alyssa Gose, Christian Nieves and Alonna Cannoy.
Also visit www.riograndetheatre.org.
Visit www.blankconversations.org/once.
