Santa Fe Playhouse
Santa Fe Playhouse creates community on stage and off by holding space for unexpected conversations through intriguing and vital programming.
We create community by:
Connecting artists with audiences through theatre. This includes:
New works and new work development.
New voices.
Classics re-imagined.
Plays with multi-generational appeal.
Innovating access to theater inside and outside our four walls.
Creating inspiring and diverse educational opportunities.
Providing radical inclusion and hospitality.
Embedding our nationally recognized artists into the local community.
Being sustainable, financially secure and fiscally responsible.
Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey
produced by Santa Fe Playhouse
Written and performed by Debra Ann Byrd
Directed by Tina Packer
July 10, 11, 12 at 7:30 pm • July 13 at 2:00 pm • Santa Fe Playhouse
• 142 E De Vargas St
From her ancestral lineage to her arrival at a metaphorical crossroad, Debra Ann Byrd presents a tour-de-force journey of her living memoir in Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey. Shakespeare aficionados will love how she weaves the Bard’s words into her own, but one doesn’t have to be a Shakespeare fan to appreciate Byrd’s poignant telling of her own story. Interspersed with verses from Othello and dynamic song and speeches, Byrd bares her soul in this vulnerable, personal, and resonant story of perseverance, discovery, and unconditional love. Directed by Shakespeare & Company founder Tina Packer and written by and starring the Founding Artistic Director of the Harlem Shakespeare Festival Debra Ann Byrd.
Content Advisory: The show discusses topics and personal stories of rape, trauma, and suicidal ideation. Themes of racism, class and gender are explored. Please be advised that a prop gun and gunshot sound cue will occur on stage during this play. These occurrences may not be suited for some audience members. Recommended for ages 13+.
Something Rotten!
produced by Santa Fe Playhouse
Book by John O’Farrell & Karey Kirkpatrick Music and lyrics by Karey & Wayne Kirkpatrick
Directed by Anna Hogan
July 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31, August 1, 2 at 7:30 pm • July 19, 26, August 2 at 2:00 pm • Scottish Rite Temple • 463 Paseo de Peralta
Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz.
