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This week, everybody’s favorite stage dad and “Quintuple Threat” Zane Barker stops by Alternate Stages podcast to share his thoughts on City of Angels, performing with immediate family members and raising kids backstage, coaching stage combat safely, and creating a positive theatre environment for the next generation of theatre-makers via his important leadership work with the New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards, also known as the annual Enchantment Awards ceremony that sends a few local winners to compete in the Jimmy Awards in NYC.

Find more information about volunteering for the Enchantment Awards at NMHSMTA.org https://www.nmhsmta.org/

And we include a short preview of our next long-form interview with a national theatre expert, which we do several times a year here on Alternate Stages. Upcoming episodes will feature topics on fundraising, producing for the commercial theatre, playwriting and how technology has changed designing for the theatre. Last month we sat down for a deep dive with national dramaturgy expert Lenora Inez Brown, author of two books on dramaturgy: “The Art of Active Dramaturgy” and “New Play Development” both available from HackettPublishing.com. The full episode will be available next week

https://hackettpublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=lenora+inez+brown

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This Week on Alternate Stages, Ron Gallegos and Michael Finnegan, the two leading men of Albuquerque Little Theatre’s jazz musical City of Angels stop by to talk about the art of singing a male duet while fighting, how to deliver iconic film noir acting on a live stage, the pressures of Hollywood, how to enact stunt violence live onstage without getting injured, their origin stories (hint: they went to the same high school!) and their own bucket list shows.

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Episode 26: City of Angels first-ever opening in Albuquerque. The show’s director (and cinephile/historian) Art Tedesco dishes on must-see film noir classics and their heritage in inspiring the authors of City of Angels. Plus behind-the-scenes interviews with selected stars from the cast of CoA.

Tickets on sale now:

AlbuquerqueLittleTheatre.org

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Ep. 25 The Six: "Beautiful" stars stop by to chat Costume Envy,

Cross-dressing, Civil Rights, and How to Play a real-life person without Stress.

Will they cat-fight over who gets the Dress, and who wore it best? Naaah, when "You've Got A Friend", it's all good!

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Ep.24 CArole King and the Myth of Trauma as being necessary to Art. Consider instead the Art of Healing and the Healing of Art, says Celena Cox, director of Beautiful.

Celena Cox, Certified Intimacy Specialist defines Chemistry on stage: Overwhelming Safety, and wanting to know the other actor in their actual self.

Tickets for Beautiful the Carole King Musical, June 6-22. https://albuquerquelittletheatre.thundertix.com/events/224277

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Who needs fantasy football when you got the real-live dream team? Giving a love-letter to New Mexico: The Bawdy Politic at TheBox theatre.

Featuring

Angie Alley, Wendy Barker, Elora Daniels, Deb Flores, Jillian Foster, Kir Kipness, Stevie Nichols, Megan McCormick, Erin Moody, Adrienne Valdez & Kari Reese

Every-Bawdy Wants to Rule the World!

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https://www.theboxabq.com/shows-tickets/the-bawdy-politic

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In this double episode about the Stephen Kings inspired play Misery:

Daniel Paul Anaya who plays the bedridden author Paul Sheldon in Misery, talks to us about playing a character who never leaves the stage, and his secret use of horses to gain that stamina, and

Lando Ruiz director of misery, talks to us about the Art of Suspense onstage;

Wanna be an actor? Auditions coming August 9 for next Season’s plays!

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This week on ALTernate Stages Podcast

Stephanie Jones, who currently plays Annie Wilkes in Stephen King’s thriller MISERY talks Horses, Horoscopes, and Horrifying House Hosts.

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