Events on Central

In The Box Annex takes improv comedy into extraterrestrial territory with A51*, a short-form show built around the alien-conspiracy premise. The Box is a genuinely intimate black-box room where the...

William Parker is one of the most consequential bassists in free jazz, and this trio with Hamid Drake on drums and Cooper Moore on homemade instruments is about as serious as this music gets. Outpost is a small, acoustically honest room, which means nowhere to hide and nothing lost, a genuine advantage for a set...

Three heavyweights of postwar blues harmonica and guitar share a stage for a CD release night at FUSION | 708, which puts this closer to a recording-session atmosphere than a standard bar gig. Anson Funderburgh has been one of the most respected Texas blues guitarists since the early eighties, and Junior Watson's phrasing is the...

This is a traditional tablao format, which means flamenco as a close-quarters performance art rather than a stage spectacle, with dancers, a singer, and a guitarist working in the kind of tight conversation that only happens when the audience is ten feet away. Hotel Albuquerque's tablao room is one of the few dedicated flamenco spaces...

Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an unscripted hour of live comedy, the kind where nothing is planned and the room decides how good it gets. The Box is a small, focused space that rewards audience participation and punishes phone distraction, so come ready to be present. Ticket link is live through...

A comedy debate show where being wrong is apparently the whole point, running just one hour on a Friday night at The Box Annex on Central. The Box tends to reward a small, game crowd, and a format built around argument works better when the room is willing to heckle back a little. Tickets are...

In the Box Mainstage runs a full long-form improv show at The Box, one of the few dedicated performance spaces actually on the Central corridor. The 10:15 p.m. start time means this is a late-night crowd, which tends to loosen up both the audience and the players in ways that work in everybody's favor. Tickets...

The Blue Show is a live improv comedy night hosted by The Box Performance Space in partnership with Improv Theatre, running about an hour at 8 PM. The Box is a true black-box setup, which means sightlines are good from almost anywhere and the room stays small enough that crowd energy actually feeds the performers....

The One Night Stanleys bring long-form improv to The Box, one of the few dedicated performance spaces left on the corridor that actually treats comedy as a discipline rather than...

A one-hour tablao-format flamenco show with live guitar, cante, and baile performed in the intimate setting inside Hotel Albuquerque, right on Central. The specific artists are still TBD at time...