A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Cockroach Theatre stages Shakespeare's most reliably weird comedy in The Box Annex, the smaller attached space next to The Box's main room. Cockroach has a track record of doing strange,...
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Outpost Performance Space
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th0tdaughter Live at Insideout
El Rey Theaterth0tdaughter brings her brand of darkwave-adjacent electronic production to Insideout, a late-night corridor stop that has quietly become one of the better rooms in Downtown for this kind of music. The 10 p.m. local start time (listed in UTC) means this is genuinely a midnight crowd, so calibrate your evening accordingly. Tickets are through Hold...
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Enchanted Grove Night Event at The Lab
The PitKodaStar Entertainment takes over The Lab for a late-night event running 10 PM to 4 AM, which puts last call well past most of Central Avenue's usual crowd. The Lab's...
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Late-Night Improv Comedy
Outpost Performance SpaceThis is a 45-minute long-form improv set running close to midnight local time, presented jointly by The Box and Improv Theatre Albuquerque. The Box is a small black-box room where the audience sits close enough to the performers that you become part of the energy whether you intend to or not. Long-form improv lives or...
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Mariachi Tenampa Live at Old Town Gazebo
Old Town GazeboMariachi Tenampa plays a two-hour outdoor set at the Old Town Gazebo, one of the more naturally suited stages on the corridor for this kind of music. The acoustics in that open plaza can work against you on a windy July evening, so arriving early to claim a spot near the center of the gazebo...
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Ronaldo Baca Live at Sawmill Market
Sawmill MarketRonaldo Baca brings his acoustic New Mexico roots sound to the communal, food-hall floor of Sawmill Market for a two-hour Saturday night set. The room was built for eating and socializing, not listening, so expect a warm ambient crowd noise underneath everything rather than concert-style attention. Admission details weren't posted at press time, so check...
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Dymer Live at Marble Brewery Downtown
Marble Brewery DowntownDymer takes the stage at Marble's downtown taproom on a Saturday night, which means the patio crowd will be loud and the bar will be moving fast before the first note lands. The indoor-outdoor layout here tends to split the room early in the set, so getting close to the stage before 9 means you're...
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World Cup Bronze Medal Watch Party
Historic Lobo TheaterThe Bronze Medal Match goes up on the Lobo's theater big screen and across all 15 screens in the Sports Lounge, including the four-screen video wall, the same weekend the Route 66 Summerfest block party takes over Central. Reserved tables are held only until kickoff, after which they go back to the floor, so showing...
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Route 66 Summerfest
Central Avenue, Nob HillThe city closes Central from Girard to Washington and hands the street back to the people who actually use it. Four stages of live music across one mile of Nob Hill, each one working a different decade of the Mother Road. The Docksiders close the main stage at 8:30 with yacht rock played straight, and...
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Jazz Festival Stage at Outpost
Outpost Performance SpaceTwo acts, two very different energies: the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra brings big-band weight, and Milton Villarubia's Los CieneGatos Brass Band tends to push things in a warmer, New Orleans-inflected direction....
