Events on Central

Improv Theatre brings a live, unscripted comedy set to The Box, one of the more intimate black-box rooms on the Central corridor. The Box keeps sightlines close and the audience...

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, committed work on a shoestring, so expect this to feel more fever dream than school production. The Annex is an intimate room, which means good...

KodaStar 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 room is better suited to this kind of production than its daytime identity suggests, with enough square footage to actually move and a sound setup...

This 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...

Two 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. Outpost is a listening room, not a bar, so the crowd actually pays attention and the sound is mixed accordingly. Tickets are through Hold My...

The Isotopes host Sacramento for a Saturday night Triple-A game at one of the best mid-sized ballparks in the country, a place where the Sandia Mountains do genuine work as...

A one-hour improv comedy set presented by The Box and Improv Theatre, running a tight 8 PM call on a Saturday night on Central. The Box is a small, close-quarters room where the audience is close enough to the performers that your reactions become part of the show, for better or worse. Tickets are through...

Cockroach Theatre is staging Shakespeare's woodland comedy in The Box Annex, the smaller back space attached to The Box Performance Space on Central. That room is intimate enough that you'll feel the blocking decisions in ways a bigger house wouldn't let you, which is either thrilling or claustrophobic depending on how you feel about immersive...

Jahbabii and Badmon take the decks at Gaia's Kava Root for a late-night set that runs hip-hop, R&B, reggaeton, and trap, with a third DJ listed only as a surprise. Gaia's is a kava bar by day, which means the room skews sober-friendly and the crowd tends to be more about the music than the...

Triple-A ball under a New Mexico sky, with the Sandia Mountains sitting out beyond the right-field wall doing their thing regardless of the score. Isotopes Park is genuinely one of...