Description: The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are "Ernest," which both young ladies believe confers magical qualities on the possessor. It was first performed for the public on February 14, 1895 at the St. James’ Theatre in London, and is regarded by many critics and scholars as being the wittiest play in the English language.

Description: When residents in area nursing homes start disappearing, the FBI takes notice. Blanche Sherwin, English teacher-turned-stage actress, lands the role of a lifetime when federal agent Steven Devon asks her to go undercover to gather evidence. With the unwitting help of other residents, Blanche helps catch the criminals in the middle of the act.

Description: Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving ensemble piece that tells the story of five young women who challenged the U.S. Radium Corporation in court in the 1920's.
Some 70 women were hired to perform various tasks including the handling of radium, while the corporation's owners and the scientists familiar with the effects of radium
carefully avoided any exposure to it. Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she watches her friends become ill and fights for her day in court.
Her historic battle paved the way for increased worker's rights.

Description: Mother Road Theatre Company's entry in The Southwest Irish Theater Festival.

THE STORY: The Seafarer is a chilling play about the sea, Ireland, and the power of myth. It's Christmas Eve, and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, aging brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. Sharky may be playing for his very soul.

“The unique and extraordinary aspect of McPherson’s writing is the way in which his characters reveal themselves in tiny details which almost imperceptibly build up an extensive picture of the past, present and future, not just of themselves but of Ireland.”—The Sunday Mail (London)

"…dark and enthralling Christmas fable of despair and redemption…tingles with the author's acute and authentic sense of what is knowable and unknowable in life…The Seafarer may just be the pick-me-up play of the season." —NY Times.

"…a midnight-black comedy, one that wrenches laughter out of the despair of frustrated men whose lives have come to naught…No matter what you're expecting at the halfway mark, you won't feel cheated when the curtain falls." —Wall Street Journal.

"A timeless classic." —Hollywood Reporter

Description: Aux Dog's entry in The Southwest Irish Theater Festival is a tour de force two-hander set in a rural town in County Kerry Ireland that is turned upside down when it is overrun by a Hollywood film crew. An Olivier Award winner for Best Comedy and a three time Tony Award nominee.

Description: Anything Goes is a hilarious shipboard love story set in the 1930s full of colorful characters wrapped around one of Cole Porter's magical and clever scores. The current Broadway revival starring Sutton Foster as the inimitable Reno Sweeney won the Tony for the best revival. Songs include : It's Delovely, Friendship, I Get a Kick Out of You, You're the Top, Blow Gabriel Blow, All Through the Night and Anything Goes.

Description: A one-actor play about the life of this famous scientist and working mother, in her own words. See the woman who discovered radioactivity, won two Nobel Prizes and was the first woman professor at the Sorbonne. Engage in questions and answers following the play.

Description: In celebration of New Mexico's historical Centennial we are presenting two shows by the late Jimmy Galloway. He was both a composer and playwright who wrote about New Mexico history and its unique flavor. His plays were premiered at the University of Albuquerque under the direction of Jim Morley. The actors who have performed in his unique shows proudly call themselves 'The Galloway Players'. The family and friends of Galloway are excited to bring back the creative genius of Jimmy Galloway.

Description: Taking audiences back to 1980 California, this hilarious new musical follows the beautiful Kira, who travels to earth to inspire a struggling young artist named Sonny. A vision in leg warmers and wind-swept hair, she helps this hunky painter find his voice, discover true love and build the world’s first roller disco. Based on the film that starred Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly, the show’s legendary score includes such hits as “Xanadu,” “Magic (You Have to Believe),” "Suddenly," and “Have You Never Been Mellow?” The New York Times raves, “Heaven on wheels!”

Description: In celebration of New Mexico's historical Centennial we are presenting a show by the late Jimmy Galloway. He was both a composer and playwright who wrote about New Mexico history and its unique flavor. His plays were premiered at the University of Albuquerque under the direction of Jim Morley. The actors who have performed in his unique shows proudly call themselves 'The Galloway Players'. The family and friends of Galloway are excited to bring back the creative genius of Jimmy Galloway.

Revelations is a full length comedy-drama bringing together five very unique characters somewhere in very rural desolate New Mexico, somewhere around the year 1900. New Mexico playwright Jimmy Galloway uses marvelously funny, unique and sensitive writing to explore all of the most fundamental elements of being a human being. Galloway uses humor, the characters and the mystique of frontier New Mexico to take the audience on an unusual quest in search of revelations about their own beliefs surrounding reality, love, happiness, spirituality, loneliness, race, friendship, dreams and our inevitable death.

The characters meet in the yard of Ma Jane, a feisty, witty and cantankerous old matriarch who warns that strange things are going to happen today. Ma Jane lives with Dovey, her dreamy and lonely daughter-in-law who has been abandoned by Ma Jane’s son a long time ago. It is not long before Homer, a vulnerable traveling salesman appears in the yard to create some excitement and become unwillingly immersed in the bizarre happenings of the day. The dramatic arrival of an Indian with his Prospector compadre results in more hilarity, chaos and mysterious events. The events of this one day propel all of the characters and the audience to confront personal revelations about what constitutes reality and what experiences and decisions shape our lives and our beliefs. A funny and thoughtful experience!

Revelations will be directed by Annetta Jordan, a University of Albuquerque Theatre Arts Graduate.

Description: A funny and fabulous musical where sorority star Elle Woods doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone ‘serious,’ Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

Description: Set in a drought-ridden rural town in the West in Depression era America, The Rainmaker tells the story of a pivotal hot summer day in the life of spinsterish Lizzie Curry. Lizzie keeps house for her father and two brothers on the family cattle ranch. She has just returned from a trip to visit pseudo-cousins (all male), which was undertaken with the failed expectation that she would find a husband. As their farm languishes under the devastating drought, Lizzie's family worries about her marriage prospects more than about their dying cattle. A charming confidence trickster named Starbuck arrives and promises to bring rain in exchange for $100. His arrival sets off a series of events that enable Lizzie to see herself in a new light.

Description: The Men of Mah Jongg centers around four older buddies from NYC, struggling with the pitfalls of old age, only to discover the unlikely game of Mah Jongg as the key to their unbridled happiness. Recent widower Sid Weinberg, a recluse facing ever growing physical & emotional ills, tries to convince his poker playing buddies to replace their Friday night game with the game of Mah Jongg after believing he has received a sign from his dearly departed wife. The play deals with such issues as relationships, hope, adversity and triumph.

Description: Set in fogbound London in 1880, Angel Street tells the story of a seemingly normal couple, Jack Manningham and his wife Bella. As the drama unfolds, it becomes clear that Jack Manningham is intent on convincing his wife Bella that she is going mad, even to the point of assuring her she is 'imagining' the gas light in the house is dimming. Soon, Bella is visited by a Scotland Yard inspector, Roughy. He convinces her that her husband is a maniacal criminal wanted for a murder committed 15-years-ago. Bella gains confidence in herself as she and the inspector work together to build up evidence against Jack.

Description: When Ren and his mother move from Chicago to a small farming town, Ren is prepared for the inevitable adjustment period at his new high school. What he isn’t prepared for are the rigorous local edicts, including a ban on dancing instituted by the local preacher, determined to exercise control over the town’s youth. To the rockin’ rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated top 40 score and augmented with dynamic new songs for the stage musical, Footloose celebrates the wisdom of listening to young people, guiding them with a warm heart and an open mind.

Description: In this much acclaimed adaptation by Joseph Hanreddy and J. R. Sullivan, you enter the world of Jane Austen's much loved novel, the story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. This is the classic story of the Bennets, a family of five daughters with loving parents who wish to arrange profitable marriages. They are not from the upper class, and their house in Hertfordshire will be inherited by a distant cousin if Mr. Bennet dies. Enter the dashing Mr. Darcy, a newcomer to town who, along with his friend, the wealthy bachelor, Mr. Bingley, arrive in town to spend the summer in a mansion nearby their property. This sends all of the local women - especially those in the Bennett household - into a tizzy. The shy and beautiful eldest Jane ends up falling in with Mr. Bingley, while her sister, Elizabeth, finds Mr. Darcy a snobbish and proud man, and she swears to loathe him forever. Can they overcome their mutual pride and prejudice?

Description: This grand old (1938) musical was revived in London in 1984 and came to New York in 1986. The late Viscount Hareford had a youthful, unfortunate marriage - and kept discreetly out of sight was a son and heir. The Hareford Hall set are despondent when the family solicitor finds the legitimate heir in Lambeth. There is a cockney invasion of the hall - Bill, his girlfriend and his mates, and the Lambeth Walk is danced by all. The revival was nominated for 13 Tony Awards and won three.

“A honey. It has humor, music, dancing, charm, wit and a deft expertise and that takes your heart away.” - N.Y. Post.

“The freshest and funniest musical to hit Broadway in ages.” - Newsweek.