Events on Central

Micky Cruz brings salsa y más to the Albuquerque Museum's courtyard for the 35th year of Music Under the Stars, the Friday night summer series that has been an Old...

Rufus Wainwright plays the Journal Theatre solo, no band, no buffer, just him and whatever he decides to do with a room that seats around 700 and has acoustics that reward exactly this kind of performance. The NHCC is on the corridor, and the Journal is one of the better-kept secrets in Albuquerque for intimate...

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 close to the action, which in improv means you may become part of the show whether you planned to or not. Tickets are through Hold...

Nocturne is throwing a fundraiser show at Launchpad, one of the few remaining rooms on the corridor that still runs sound like it means it. The late start puts this solidly in the after-midnight category, so pace yourself accordingly. Check Hold My Ticket for pricing before you show up at the door.

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...

th0tdaughter 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...

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...

Mariachi 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...