Events on Central

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...

The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means...

The post-Bob Marley touring lineup of The Wailers brings the full roots-reggae catalog to what is almost certainly an outdoor stage at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, not Launchpad's usual...

The surviving members of Bob Marley's original backing band bring a full reggae set to the NHCC's outdoor performance space in Barelas. This venue runs a tight operation and the outdoor stage carries sound well on a September evening, which is about as good as Albuquerque weather gets for an outdoor show. Grab tickets 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...

This is a late-night tribute DJ set at El Rey, running from 9:30 p.m. Friday deep into Saturday morning, which tells you everything about the crowd's intentions. El Rey's floor opens up well when a DJ has the room to themselves, and a set framed around a specific artist's influence tends to pull people who...

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...

The Lobo Sports Vault, tucked inside the Historic Lobo Theater on Central, runs the full college football slate across its screens every Saturday, with a buffet from 11 AM to...

The New Mexico Music Hall of Fame is putting on a four-hour evening concert at the Route 66 Visitor Center, part of a fall centennial series that suggests something more ceremonial than your average weekend show. Hall of Fame involvement usually means the lineup skews toward recognized names rather than emerging acts, which is either...