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In its twenty-fifth year as a group committed to “breathing life into the theatre through the creation of new forms,” Theater Grottesco (TG) and artistic director John Flax take the near sacrilegious position that Shakespeare’s comedies are “dated and silly.” Flax argues that Shakespeare stole characters and conventions “shamelessly” from the Commedia Dell’Arte tradition while ignoring the incisive social commentary that actually thinned out audiences for the Italians. Shakespeare’s comedies are “romantic and light” and focused almost exclusively on the foibles and obsessions of the...

Scott Harrison and Ironweed Productions: A Commitment to Quality American Theater and the Northern New Mexico Community. IP’s spring production of Doubt promises to be another successful and thought-provoking foray into American culture and belief.

James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” began life as a short story by James Baldwin. Set in Harlem in the 1950’s, this narrative is a jazz riff on the ersatz relationship between a good brother Brother (a married veteran and long-term high school teacher) and a bad brother Sonny, (jailbird, heroin addict, and inspired jazz pianist) that morphs into a truer, more loving connection when Brother begins to glean what playing and creating music means for his younger sibling.

What the Word for Word Company does is to adapt short stories to the stage without changing or omitting a word of the original...

Prior to living on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, Susana Guillaume has touched down in Hollywood, Southern France, and Northern England with a brief foray into the Amazon. From these life experiences, Susana has created a one-woman show— Girl Facing West— about “the pleasures and pains of growing up, while staying human, in a complex world.” This solo performance piece is composed of “my personal choices and the legacy of family.”

Susana Guillaume has an abiding passion for “body-based improvisation where life experiences reside” and, consequently, has taught dance for the past twelve years....

The 80th annual awards show will be held Feb. 24 at the Kodak Theatre and will feature a host of A-list stars. Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, George Clooney and Nicole Kidman will be among the presenters. Others include Denzel Washington, Martin Scorsese, Cate Blanchett, Cameron Diaz, Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks.

John Stewart will be this year’s Oscar host. Stewart has been host and executive producer of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, winner of four consecutive Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series, since 1999.

Directed by Joe Wright. Screenplay by Christopher Hampton. Based on the novel by Ian McEwan. Starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.

“A young girl… sees something from her bedroom window that she doesn’t understand, but that she thinks she does.” So 18-year-old Briony Tallis describes the story she’s writing that about an incident that happened five years earlier, an incident that forever changed the lives of Briony’s sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley), Cecilia’s lover (James McAvoy), and Briony herself.

The tap-tap-tapping of a typewriter is woven into the movie’s soundtrack and...

Directed by Jason Reitman. Screenplay by Diablo Cody. Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, and Jennifer Garner.

Finally, a Best Picture nominee in which no one gets shot, there is no blood, and no one does anything reprehensible. Instead we have the story of Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), an offbeat teenager who finds herself pregnant after her first and only sexual experience—an encounter that’s more experiment than romance with her best buddy, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). She plans for an abortion but can’t go through with it, so she and her friend Leah (Olivia Thurlby) find...

Written and directed by Tony Gilroy. Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton.

From the very first moments of Michael Clayton, the stress level is high. The urgent ranting of a desperate man is heard over the lit-up skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan. In the boardroom of a prestigious New York law firm, an army of attorneys labors through the night. Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) is sweating bullets in the ladies’ room. And then we see Michael Clayton (George Clooney) in a seedy, high-stakes card game. He’s losing, and not just at cards: he’s recently lost his shirt in a bar...

Written and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem and Kelly Mcdonald.

No Country for Old Men, the newest offering from the prolific Coen Brothers, has already collected a slew of awards from various film critics’ societies as well as a handful of Golden Globe nominations. It’s also at the top of my own list of best films I’ve seen this year. Not everyone may agree: as I left the theater I heard more than one of my fellow moviegoers grumbling, “ That was the ending??” True, viewers expecting a standard Hollywood thriller with clear-cut...

Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Based on the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, and Dillon Freasier.

As the last days of Gilded Age fade into the early 20th century, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) works his way up from silver miner to oil man, taking his baby son H.W. from place to place as he buys up drilling rights in small towns. When a young man sells information about an oil deposit on his family’s ranch, Daniel heads out to Little Boston, California, to scope out the land, pretending to be on a camping trip with H.W., now a little...