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Tonight on the corridor
Barelasarts & culture
12:00 am NHCC National Hispanic Cultural Center Details
The performers take audience suggestions and build an entire Shakespearean play on the spot, iambic pentameter and all. The Box is a small black-box room where the audience sits close enough to watch the improvisers' faces when a scene goes sideways, which is half the pleasure. At 45 minutes, it's a tight enough window that...
Hosted by Kopidion, this mod '60s variety show plays in The Box's black-box format, which tends to collapse the distance between performers and audience in ways that bigger stages simply can't. The one-hour runtime is tight by variety-show standards, so expect something punchy rather than sprawling. Tickets are through Hold My Ticket, and given the...
Triple-A ball under the Sandia sunset, with the Isotopes taking on Sugar Land in what is reliably one of the better mid-summer crowds of the home schedule. Isotopes Park sits right on Central, and the upper deck on the third-base side catches the last of the light in a way that makes the $15 ticket...
Sandia Performing Arts Company brings Ay, Compadre! to South Broadway Cultural Center, one of the corridor's most underused but genuinely capable performance spaces. The city-run venue keeps ticket prices accessible, and the room is intimate enough that there isn't a bad seat in the house. Check the CABQ events page for admission details, since the...
Tablao Flamenco Albuquerque runs weekly Sunday matinees in a dedicated tablao space inside Hotel Albuquerque, one of the few venues in the state presenting this art form in a proper...
Jordan Jonas hosts a paranormal-themed evening at Painted Lady Bed & Brew as part of the ongoing Brews and Boos series, which has built a quietly devoted following along this stretch of Central. The bed-and-brew format means the crowd tends to skew curious and unhurried rather than rowdy, so if you want to actually hear...
Two acts, a ticket link, and a 5 a.m. close time: this is a genuine late-night at Insideout, the kind of night that doesn't get started until most of Albuquerque...
Three local acts on one bill at Launchpad, the Downtown corridor room that has been the proving ground for Albuquerque rock and punk for decades. Sunday late-night shows here tend...
Tina, a local instructor, leads a two-hour tie-dye workshop at this kava bar and community hangout on the UNM stretch of Central. The $5 bring-your-own or $10 buy-there shirt pricing...
Two of the more respected names in contemporary heavy rock share a bill at the Sunshine, with Sword's desert-sun riff worship sitting comfortably next to Red Fang's beer-soaked, video-friendly stomp. The Sunshine's general-admission floor can pack tighter than you expect for a room this size, so arriving early puts you in a much better position....