Our 2024 - 2025 Season

 

      

Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors

book by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen

directed by Nichole Hamilton 

*Special preview performance on September 26th at 5:30pm

September 27th @ 7:30pm *opening night reception to follow

September 28th @ 7:30pm

October 4th @ 7:30pm

October 5th @ 7:30pm

October 6th @ 2:00pm

Ever wondered what would happen if you took Bram Stoker's legendary vampire tale and put it into a blender with Mel Brooks Monty Python and The 39 Steps? That's just what happens in this lightning-fast laugh-out-loud 90-minute gender-bending romp. When her sister Mina falls ill with a mysterious disease of the blood Lucy Westfeldt and her fiancé Jonathan Harker enlist the help of famed female vampire hunter Doctor Jean Van Helsing. Their hunt for the dangerous and sexy Count Dracula abounds with clever wordplay and quick-change antics. Five actors play over a dozen roles in this bloodcurdlingly hilarious send-up of the literary classic.

 

 

      

Mother Courage and Her Children

play by Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin

directed by Larissa Lury

*Special preview performance on November 7th at 5:30pm

November 8th @ 7:30pm *opening night reception to follow

November 9th @ 7:30pm

November 15th @ 7:30pm

November 16th @ 7:30pm

November 17th @ 2:00pm

Mother Courage and Her Children is the antiwar musical stage-play written by exiled German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. Set in seventeenth-century Europe, the play follows Mother Courage, a woman who operates a rolling canteen business during the Thirty Years War.

 

 

      

It's Showtime!

The Performing Arts Trivia Show, An ASTC Fundraiser to benefit the NMSU Theatre Arts Department

directed by Monique Foster

December 6th at 7:00pm

Performers will include NMSU Theatre Department students, dancers from Borderlands Ballet Company, Organ Mountain High School Choir, Gospel Choir of Las Cruces, Studio A-440 in Las Cruces, dance students from Alma d’arte Charter High School and local artist Georgina Armendariz doing a hoop act.

Tickets to “It’s Showtime!” are $20 (plus fee) in advance. Tickets at the door are $22.50. Sponsorships are available for $125 and include two tickets to the event. You can be a general sponsor or sponsor a performer, a song, the emcee or the producer/director by calling Denise Welsh at 575-642-2980.

Audience members can also participate in the evening’s performing arts trivia game by purchasing as many tickets as they want for $5 each prior to the live performances. From the audience members who buy tickets, some will be chosen in a drawing to come on stage and participate in the trivia contest hosted by emcee John Pohl. The winner of the game will receive two season tickets to the NMSU Theatre Department.

All proceeds from the event, including trivia contest tickets, will benefit NMSU theatre students, paying for student travel to theatre auditions and competitions, scholarships and guest artists who work with theatre students at NMSU.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!

 

      

that drive thru monterey

by Matthew Paul Olmos

student directed by Eva Cullen

*Special preview performance on February 20th at 5:30pm

February 21st @ 7:30pm *opening night reception to follow

February 22nd @ 7:30pm

February 28th @ 7:30pm

March 1st @ 7:30pm

March 2nd @ 2:00pm

The story of a Mexican-American woman in 1971 Los Angeles as she experiences a first, nerdy love. Throughout the courtship, she experiences mysterious premonitions of what lies ahead in her life and how the ever’present machismo will ultimately bring her heartbreak as it gets passed down from fathers to sons; generation to generation.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!

 

      

The Prom

music by Matthew Sklar

lyrics by Chad Beguelin

book by Bob Martin and Beguelin

based on an original concept by Jack Viertel

directed by Wil Kilroy

musical direction by Lisa Hermanson

*Special preview performance on April 10th at 5:30pm

April 11th @ 7:30pm *opening night reception to follow

April 12th @ 7:30pm

April 25th @ 7:30pm

April 26th @ 7:30pm

April 27th @ 2:00pm

Four eccentric Broadway stars join forces with a courageous girl who wants to bring her girlfriend to prom, but is thwarted by the PTA. In the end acceptance and love overcome the challenge. Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE!

 

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We invite you to join our Center Stage Society!

With a donation of $500 or more  to the American Southwest Theatre Company, you will receive two (2) complimentary season tickets and receive an American Southwest Theatre Company proud supporter license plate along with an ASTC mask!

This donation goes to the American Southwest Theatre Company which supports our students via funding guest artists, travel scholarships, a senior scholarship, and enhancements to our season's productions. 

 

Below are our different levels of donations, please take a look and contact Tina Wayt, 575-646-5122 or mtina@nmsu.edu, to arrange your ASTC donation:

 

ASTC Giving Levels:

Center Stage Society Donation Levels:

 

While we are having to be flexible with our production season, please know that we will do our very best to provide you with theatrical experiences from our program. We hope you will consider both a season subscription and becoming a donor – our students, faculty, and staff appreciate your support. 

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

With Best Regards,

Wil Kilroy and the faculty, staff, and students of NMSU and ASTC

 

 

Thank you  for supporting the arts!