Events on Central

A fundraiser night at Painted Lady Bed & Brew on Central, with proceeds going to Barrett House, which provides transitional housing and support services for women in recovery. Painted Lady...

Triple-A Pacific Coast League ball at one of the better mid-size stadiums in the country, where the Isotopes host the Salt Lake Bees for a late-season matchup. Isotopes Park sits right on the corridor, and at altitude the ball carries, so even a quiet offensive night tends to produce something worth watching. Tickets are through...

Five short plays in two acts follow a young immigrant girl navigating two cultures at once, written and performed by an Albuquerque troupe that has been building this kind of specific, locally-rooted work for a while now. The Lobo's theater seating puts you genuinely close to the stage, so the quieter moments land differently here...

Locals take the mic to tell real ghost stories at this open mic night inside Painted Lady's Brews & Boos series, a seasonal run that leans into the building's own considerable history. The Painted Lady itself dates back to the early Route 66 era and has enough documented weirdness that the storytellers don't have to...

A tablao-format flamenco show with live guitar, cante, and baile performed over a Friday dinner service at Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues on the corridor doing this with any regularity. Specific performers are still TBA, so the cast is a variable, but the room itself is well-suited for this, closer in scale to...

Friday night flamenco at Hotel Albuquerque puts live bailaores, a cantaora, and a guitarrista in one of the few dedicated tablao settings in the Southwest. The room is intimate enough that you will feel the footwork through the floor, which is either thrilling or distracting depending on where you sit, so request a table toward...

A live improv comedy show at The Box, the small black-box theater on Central that has been quietly doing the work for years while bigger venues get the attention. The...