Los Alamos Monitor Online — NMSA Theater Dept. opens 2015 Season
Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 1:15 pm
New Mexico School for the Arts’ Theater Department will open its 2015 season with “Radium Girls,” by D.W. Gregory, directed by Joey Chavez and Deborah Potter.
Inspired by a true story, “Radium Girls” follows the popularity of radium as a medical and industrial product, used for a variety of purposes — from fighting tumors to providing luminous paint for wristwatch faces — until the workers painting them began to fall ill from a mysterious disease.
Gregory’s play traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a wristwatch dial painter in the 1920s, as she fights for her day in court. Shows will be 7 p.m. Jan. 29-31 at the James A. Little theater.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors, and can be purchased online at nmschoolforthearts.org/tickets.
On Feb. 7, the Theater Department will present an encore performance of The Shakespeare Project, first performed in October 2014, as part of a Dessert Theater fundraiser for the Parent Association. Showtime will be 7 p.m. in NMSA’s Large Rehearsal Hall, 275 E. Alameda with a raffle and silent auction.
NMSA was a recipient of the national Arts Schools Network Exemplary School Designation at their annual conference in Denver earlier this year, and has been graded an “A” school for the third year in a row from the New Mexico Public Education Department.
NMSA is now accepting applications for school year 2015-2016. The application cycle closes in mid-January, and information on admission policies and the application process can be found on NMSchoolForTheArts.org.
NMSA provides access to a rigorous mastery arts and academic high school education for youth with passion and aptitude in the arts, leading to post-secondary learning, careers in the arts and lives that contribute to society.
NMSA is a public/private partnership comprised of the NMSA-Art Institute, a nonprofit art educational institution, and NMSA-Charter School, a New Mexico state charter high school. NMSA’s purpose is to provide the highest standards of excellence in preparing New Mexico’s artistically talented students to compete in the national arena for post-secondary education and/or professional careers in the arts.
NMSA offers pre-professional instruction in the performing and visual arts with rigorous academics leading to a high school diploma.
NMSA is located in the former St. Francis Cathedral School, 275 East Alameda in Santa Fe. For more information, visit NMSchoolForTheArts.org.