David Carter
David Carter
Casting Call: A Year with Frog and Toad, Sept. 10 and 11
CASTING CALL : A Year With Frog & Toad Written by Robert and Willie Reale Directed by Patrick MacDonald and Emily Rankin Artistic Director: Robyn Rikoon Audition Date & Time: September 10 and 11 Sat, September 10th: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Monologues and Singing 12:15 p.m. – 1 p.m. Dance Call Sat, September 10th: 4…
Overly Academic Thoughts About Santa Fe’s Silliest Show: A conversation with the directors of the Fiesta Melodrama
By Jennifer Levin Eliot Fisher and Andy Primm co-direct A Proud Playhouse Presents a PreĂ«minent Pageant to Puncture the Precious Pretensions of a Pretty Provincial Populace, or A Silly Centennial Celebration Centered on the Scintillating Scandals of Santa Fe or A Riotous Retrospective Chock Full of Gags, the 100th Anniversary Fiesta Melodrama at Santa Fe Playhouse, opening with a gala…
100th Anniversary Santa Fe Fiesta Melodrama Celebrates A Century of Skewering All of Us
SANTA FE — Santa Fe Playhouse celebrates a full century of existence with its 100th Anniversary Fiesta Melodrama, opening Saturday, Aug. 27, with performances through Sept. 18 at the Playhouse downtown, as well as a tour of Midtown and the Southside. This year’s event is a multimedia show featuring live theater and song, as well as historical Fiesta Melodrama recordings….
SWAIA Performances presents Sage Cornelius
SWAIA Performances presents multi-instrumentalist musician Sage Cornelius at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 22, at Santa Fe Playhouse. Sage Cornelius (Oneida, Navajo, Potawatomi) is a multi-instrumentalist musician from Topeka, Kansas. He learned honky-tonk/Irish fiddle as well as classical violin when he was young. He picked up guitar in high school and counts among his influences Charlie Daniels,…
Journey to the Center of Your Soul
Interviews by Jennifer Levin Everybody, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is a story to watch unfold as well as a highly personal journey each audience member takes with the cast. It’s an update of the 15th-century morality play, Everyman, which is a staple of theater education. The original is likely the first play written in English; Jacobs-Jenkins’ embraces Everyman’s serious issues of…
Everything’s under control: The timelessness of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance
By Jennifer Levin Agnes and Tobias are wealthy suburbanites. They like their cocktails. They talk in that affected way, common to people of their social station, where everything is sort of a joke because everything is sort of beneath them. They smile when they’re angry, and speak through clenched teeth. They spend their afternoons at “the club” and don’t seem…
Auditions for EVERYBODY
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins directed by Zoe Lesser 5–10 p.m. Monday, March 21 1–5 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E. De Vargas St. “Though if Death really is just a matter of taking a trip and giving some sort of presentation at the end, then it might not be that bad.” You muddle through the mundanities of life…
Multiplicity of self: The Effect 
“Which of your feelings do you trust? Do you trust the feelings that come up in your body? Or do you trust the feelings that come up in your brain?” asks Robyn Rikoon, who directs The Effect, by Lucy Prebble, the first production of Santa Fe Playhouse’s Centennial Season.