Including the Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder and the Pulitzer Prize-winning labor rights drama, Sweat
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“The plays this season are very literary—they tell stories. All the plays focus on families, and many deal with class issues, though that’s not always right on the surface. Some of the plays are dark comedies, and all of them have a degree of humor. But what unites all of the plays is that there are no heroes. These are not stories that tell you who you should listen to or who you should identify with. These are characters in a specific place in time, and you get to choose who you side with. These are not plays with easy answers.”
Robyn Rikoon | Artistic Director
MAINSTAGE
THE BABY MONITOR
Written by David Stallings
Directed by Colin Hovde
MARCH 2 – APRIL 1
When Claire’s concerns over the welfare of her two-year-old second cousin are dangerously validated, she begins to question the family’s principles and parenting skills. This topical new play explores same-sex parenting, race, class, and family values in today’s America, as well as the danger of making assumptions. It was a finalist for the 2014 National New Play Network and has been produced in New York, Serbia, Ireland, and Italy.
SKELETAL SERIES
HUBBA HUBBA
Created by Alex & Omsted
APRIL 6 – 15
The Playhouse welcomes back Maryland-based puppeteers Alex and Olmsted, who brought us Marooned! in 2022. HUBBA HUBBA is a collection of vignettes using puppetry and movement to explore romantic love. HUBBA HUBBA is a comedy that incorporates handmade mechanical objects, puppets, trick costumes, and masks to investigate love’s triumphs and obstacles. Featuring singing and music, shadow puppetry, physical comedy, and—as is expected from an Alex and Olmsted production—audience participation. All ages are welcome.
MAINSTAGE
SWEAT
Written by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Robyn Rikoon
May 11 – June 10
Shifting between 2000 and 2008, workers at Olstead form long-lasting bonds over drinks, secrets, and laughs after grueling workdays on the factory floor. Until relationships are put to the test when the Rust Belt factory leaves the union and inevitable layoffs and promotions take place. Using wit and grit as only Nottage can, SWEAT was written after conducting two years of interviews with residents of Reading, Pennsylvania.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama explores issues of class, race, immigration, and economic decline during eight years that changed middle America.
SKELETAL SERIES
WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS?
Written by Brian Quijada
Starring Satya Jnani Chavez
JUNE 15 – 24
In this solo show, a Latina child asks, during a school lesson on Rosa Parks, “Where did we sit on the bus?” Follow her from childhood to adulthood as she explores her family’s history, her identity as a first-generation American, and what the world will be like for her future children. Originally an autobiographical show by Quijada, Chavez performs this journey of self-discovery with Latin beats, hip-hop, and dance. All music is played live and looped by Chavez.
MAINSTAGE
A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER
Book by Robert L. Freedman
Music by Steven Lutvak
Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman & Steven Lutvak
Based on a novel by Roy Horniman
Directed by Rebecca Aparicio
JULY 13 – AUG 12
When British, newly orphaned Monty Navarro discovers he’s ninth in line to inherit the Earldom of Highhurst, he decides to murder every member of the high-society D’Ysquith family standing in his way, all the while keeping a mistress, Sibella Hallward, and courting the young Phoebe D’Ysquith. In this laugh-filled musical, the same actor plays all eight of the doomed heirs. A Gentleman’s Guide won four Tony Awards in 2014, including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical.
MAINSTAGE
FIESTA MELODRAMA
Written by Brave and Talented Santa Feans
Directed by Felix Cordova
AUG 23 – SEPT 10
Now in its 101st year, the Fiesta Melodrama is Santa Fe’s oldest theatrical tradition, written in-house by anonymous locals. The Melodrama is our community’s farcical Year in Review, skewering politicians, public-school policy, police, the press, and everything else that makes Santa Fe so “different.” In 2023, 10-year Melodrama veteran Felix Cordova will step into the director’s chair.
SKELETAL SERIES
BEAR GREASE
Created by LightingCloud
AUG 16 – 20
Featuring an all-Indigenous cast, this hilarious twist on the 1978 classic, Grease, reimagines the beloved musical as culturally relevant with Indigenous humor and pride. Bear Grease is the brainchild of Crystle Lightning (Cree) and MC RedCloud (Huichol), a husband-and-wife hip-hop duo who go by the name LightningCloud.
MAINSTAGE
ON CLOVER ROAD
Written by Steven Dietz
OCT 19 – NOV 18
At an abandoned motel on a desolate American road, a distraught mother waits to be reunited with her runaway daughter. Out of desperation, she puts her trust in a private investigator, but no one is who they seem in this edge-of-your-seat, noir-style thriller. Family bonds are pushed to their limits in a gritty story of shocking twists.
MAINSTAGE
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Written by Anthony Neilson
Directed by Emily Rankin
NOV 30 – DEC 23
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the warehouse, a creature was stirring—an elf! It’s Christmas Eve and two men in a warehouse of borderline-legal merchandise discover an intruder in an elf costume. Or is he on a mission from the North Pole, sent to London to spread the truth about Christmas? Things get more complicated when Cherry arrives, demanding some hard-to-get swag—a Power Ranger for her kid. A seriously twisted, blatantly irreverent holiday comedy for the adults in the family.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING
NEW PLAY READING SERIES
JAN 27-29
Designed to nurture and develop writers from New Mexico and its bordering states: Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona. The theme for the 2023 Season’s New Play Reading Series centers around WATER. Plays will be presented on Friday, January 27, and Saturday, January 28, 2023, with audience choice encores on Sunday, January 29, 2023.
FREE
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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
A sneak-peek into Santa Fe Playhouse’s 2023 Season
FEB 13, 7:30 PM
Be one of the first to experience a look inside Santa Fe Playhouse’s 2023 season. Featuring live performances and video cameos from our exhilarating, upcoming productions. This is a unique opportunity to meet and mingle with the artists shaping your theatrical experience in 2023.
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THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS is presented by the Santa Fe Playhouse as part of the inaugural Art + Sol Santa Fe Winter Arts Festival.
Tickets are free of charge, reservations are recommended.
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LOVE SUCKS
A Valentine’s Stand-Up Comedy Show
FEB 14, 7 PM & 8:30 PM
$30
You’re burnt out on dating apps, aren’t you? Are you recently single or perpetually single? What if you just want a break from the commercialization of Valentine’s Day? We have a stand-up comedy show just for you!
Join “a little sweet, and a little surly” (Forbes) Denver-based comedian Christie Buchele (Viceland, NBC) as she shares stories about her dating life. She will be joined by Albuquerque’s Buck D (Stand-Up Live PHX, Comedy Store). Hosted by Isabel Madley (#2 Best Comic, Santa Fe Reporter).
LOVE SUCKS is co-presented by CloudTop and the Santa Fe Playhouse as part of the inaugural Art + Sol Santa Fe Winter Arts Festival
SEASON SPONSORED BY ALFRED & SUSAN ESCO CHANDLER,
ERIN & THOMAS BUNKLEY III,
AND BRUCE STUART.