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John Steinbeck adapted his novel of the same name. It premiered on Broadway in 1937 and earned the 1938 New York Drama Critics' Circle Best Play. A poignant tragedy centers around two migrant field hands, the average-looking but smart ‘George’ and the strong but mentally-challenged ‘Lennie’ who work on a farm in California during the Great Depression. Their dream of owning their own farm is shattered when Lennie has an incident with the wife of the boss's son.

It is one of director Nancy Sellin’s all-time favorite shows. “The show offers a 1930s American perspective of poverty, prejudice against race, women, the disabled, the aged. In large part, we still have these issues today and the story is presented in such a way that we see the pathos and sadness of our choices with crystal clarity. Ultimately, it is a story of humanity at its most basic level. And, it is also a story of love at its core.” She has selected a terrific cast of some of Albuquerque’s best actors – Caedmon Holland and Daniel Anaya will play ‘Lennie’ and ‘Curley’. Other members of the cast are Kristine Padilla, Myles Hughes, Tim Reardon, Tom Doty, Eric Bodwell, Jacob Chavez, Castalia Mayerhofer. Spoiler alert, ‘Bowie’ will play ‘the dog’!

Performances Fridays and Saturdays at 7.30pm. Sundays at 2.00pm. Saturday April 25 at 2.00pm only. Thursdays April 16 and 30 at 7.30pm.

John Steinbeck adapted his novel of the same name. It premiered on Broadway in 1937 and earned the 1938 New York Drama Critics' Circle Best Play. A poignant tragedy centers around two migrant field hands, the average-looking but smart ‘George’ and the strong but mentally-challenged ‘Lennie’ who work on a farm in California during the Great Depression. Their dream of owning their own farm is shattered when Lennie has an incident with the wife of the boss's son.

It is one of director Nancy Sellin’s all-time favorite shows. “The show offers a 1930s American perspective of poverty, prejudice against race, women, the disabled, the aged. In large part, we still have these issues today and the story is presented in such a way that we see the pathos and sadness of our choices with crystal clarity. Ultimately, it is a story of humanity at its most basic level. And, it is also a story of love at its core.” She has selected a terrific cast of some of Albuquerque’s best actors – Caedmon Holland and Daniel Anaya will play ‘Lennie’ and ‘Curley’. Other members of the cast are Kristine Padilla, Myles Hughes, Tim Reardon, Tom Doty, Eric Bodwell, Jacob Chavez, Castalia Mayerhofer. Spoiler alert, ‘Bowie’ will play ‘the dog’!

Performances Fridays and Saturdays at 7.30pm. Sundays at 2.00pm. Saturday April 25 at 2.00pm only. Thursdays April 16 and 30 at 7.30pm.

John Steinbeck adapted his novel of the same name. It premiered on Broadway in 1937 and earned the 1938 New York Drama Critics' Circle Best Play. A poignant tragedy centers around two migrant field hands, the average-looking but smart ‘George’ and the strong but mentally-challenged ‘Lennie’ who work on a farm in California during the Great Depression. Their dream of owning their own farm is shattered when Lennie has an incident with the wife of the boss's son.

It is one of director Nancy Sellin’s all-time favorite shows. “The show offers a 1930s American perspective of poverty, prejudice against race, women, the disabled, the aged. In large part, we still have these issues today and the story is presented in such a way that we see the pathos and sadness of our choices with crystal clarity. Ultimately, it is a story of humanity at its most basic level. And, it is also a story of love at its core.” She has selected a terrific cast of some of Albuquerque’s best actors – Caedmon Holland and Daniel Anaya will play ‘Lennie’ and ‘Curley’. Other members of the cast are Kristine Padilla, Myles Hughes, Tim Reardon, Tom Doty, Eric Bodwell, Jacob Chavez, Castalia Mayerhofer. Spoiler alert, ‘Bowie’ will play ‘the dog’!

Performances Fridays and Saturdays at 7.30pm. Sundays at 2.00pm. Saturday April 25 at 2.00pm only. Thursdays April 16 and 30 at 7.30pm.

SHIRLEY VALENTINE was the inaugural show of West End Productions in 2016. Welcome back Jessica Osbourne. It is ten years since her outstanding performance in the beloved 1986 one-woman play, by Willy Russell, about a middle-aged housewife who escapes her mundane, stagnant life and neglectful husband for a transformative holiday in Greece. Colleen Neary McClure once again directs this heartwarming, comedic monologue focusing on self-discovery, liberation, and rediscovering one’s identity.

‘Shirley’ inhabits her "full-fit" kitchen and makes her husband's supper as she tells us about her life, ‘Joe’, the children, and her friend ‘Jane’, who has just invited ‘Shirley’ to join her on a vacation in Greece. She talks to the wall and the audience as she convinces herself to stay or go. Wine helps to lubricate Shirley's feelings and reminiscences while she makes a mental pro-and-con list. In just two funny and charming scenes we get a sense of a prosaic life and her longing to leave it. (Talkin’Broadway 2016).

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, written by David Nels and Betsy Kehlso, and directed by Cameron Illidge-Welch, is a raucous, heart-filled musical comedy set in the fictional Armadillo Acres, a most exclusive trailer park, in North Florida. There is a new tenant and she is wreaking hurricane-type havoc on this quiet little community. When ‘Pippi’, a stripper on the run, comes between housewife ‘Jeannie’, a Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobe, and her tollbooth-collector husband ‘Norbert’, the storms begin to brew. What follows is a wildly entertaining mix of infidelity, desperation, loyalty, and unexpected compassion. Packed with outrageous humor, big personalities, and a country-rock score, the show embraces camp and chaos while ultimately revealing surprising emotional depth and redemption beneath the trailer-trash glitterAdditional Performance information on Saturday June 13 at 2pm only. Thursday June 4 and 18 at 7.30pm - $10 tix available

SHIRLEY VALENTINE was the inaugural show of West End Productions in 2016. Welcome back Jessica Osbourne. It is ten years since her outstanding performance in the beloved 1986 one-woman play, by Willy Russell, about a middle-aged housewife who escapes her mundane, stagnant life and neglectful husband for a transformative holiday in Greece. Colleen Neary McClure once again directs this heartwarming, comedic monologue focusing on self-discovery, liberation, and rediscovering one’s identity.

‘Shirley’ inhabits her "full-fit" kitchen and makes her husband's supper as she tells us about her life, ‘Joe’, the children, and her friend ‘Jane’, who has just invited ‘Shirley’ to join her on a vacation in Greece. She talks to the wall and the audience as she convinces herself to stay or go. Wine helps to lubricate Shirley's feelings and reminiscences while she makes a mental pro-and-con list. In just two funny and charming scenes we get a sense of a prosaic life and her longing to leave it. (Talkin’Broadway 2016).

SHIRLEY VALENTINE was the inaugural show of West End Productions in 2016. Welcome back Jessica Osbourne. It is ten years since her outstanding performance in the beloved 1986 one-woman play, by Willy Russell, about a middle-aged housewife who escapes her mundane, stagnant life and neglectful husband for a transformative holiday in Greece. Colleen Neary McClure once again directs this heartwarming, comedic monologue focusing on self-discovery, liberation, and rediscovering one’s identity.

‘Shirley’ inhabits her "full-fit" kitchen and makes her husband's supper as she tells us about her life, ‘Joe’, the children, and her friend ‘Jane’, who has just invited ‘Shirley’ to join her on a vacation in Greece. She talks to the wall and the audience as she convinces herself to stay or go. Wine helps to lubricate Shirley's feelings and reminiscences while she makes a mental pro-and-con list. In just two funny and charming scenes we get a sense of a prosaic life and her longing to leave it. (Talkin’Broadway 2016).

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, written by David Nels and Betsy Kehlso, and directed by Cameron Illidge-Welch, is a raucous, heart-filled musical comedy set in the fictional Armadillo Acres, a most exclusive trailer park, in North Florida. There is a new tenant and she is wreaking hurricane-type havoc on this quiet little community. When ‘Pippi’, a stripper on the run, comes between housewife ‘Jeannie’, a Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobe, and her tollbooth-collector husband ‘Norbert’, the storms begin to brew. What follows is a wildly entertaining mix of infidelity, desperation, loyalty, and unexpected compassion. Packed with outrageous humor, big personalities, and a country-rock score, the show embraces camp and chaos while ultimately revealing surprising emotional depth and redemption beneath the trailer-trash glitterAdditional Performance information on Saturday June 13 at 2pm only. Thursday June 4 and 18 at 7.30pm - $10 tix available

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, written by David Nels and Betsy Kehlso, and directed by Cameron Illidge-Welch, is a raucous, heart-filled musical comedy set in the fictional Armadillo Acres, a most exclusive trailer park, in North Florida. There is a new tenant and she is wreaking hurricane-type havoc on this quiet little community. When ‘Pippi’, a stripper on the run, comes between housewife ‘Jeannie’, a Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobe, and her tollbooth-collector husband ‘Norbert’, the storms begin to brew. What follows is a wildly entertaining mix of infidelity, desperation, loyalty, and unexpected compassion. Packed with outrageous humor, big personalities, and a country-rock score, the show embraces camp and chaos while ultimately revealing surprising emotional depth and redemption beneath the trailer-trash glitterAdditional Performance information on Saturday June 13 at 2pm only. Thursday June 4 and 18 at 7.30pm - $10 tix available

SHIRLEY VALENTINE was the inaugural show of West End Productions in 2016. Welcome back Jessica Osbourne. It is ten years since her outstanding performance in the beloved 1986 one-woman play, by Willy Russell, about a middle-aged housewife who escapes her mundane, stagnant life and neglectful husband for a transformative holiday in Greece. Colleen Neary McClure once again directs this heartwarming, comedic monologue focusing on self-discovery, liberation, and rediscovering one’s identity.

‘Shirley’ inhabits her "full-fit" kitchen and makes her husband's supper as she tells us about her life, ‘Joe’, the children, and her friend ‘Jane’, who has just invited ‘Shirley’ to join her on a vacation in Greece. She talks to the wall and the audience as she convinces herself to stay or go. Wine helps to lubricate Shirley's feelings and reminiscences while she makes a mental pro-and-con list. In just two funny and charming scenes we get a sense of a prosaic life and her longing to leave it. (Talkin’Broadway 2016).