This weekend and next, Greer Garson Theatre presents in the comedy Some Girl(s) written by Neil Labute and directed by Gail Springer. Some Girl(s) follows the story of Guy (Jade Scott Lewis), a seemingly typical American male who searches for solace in his inner darkness as he attempts to make amends with four past girlfriends. Showtimes: Friday October 17, 2014 – 7:00 P.M. Saturday October 18,2014 – 7:00 P.M. Sunday October 19, 2014 – 2:00 P.M. Friday October 24, 2014 – 7:00 P.M. Saturday October 25, 2014 – 7:00 P.M. Sunday October 26, 2014 – 2:00 P.M Tickets: $15 public tickets, $5 for seniors and students. Purchase tickets at ticketssantafe.org or 1-505-988-1234. Contact the SFUAD Performing Arts Department (Amy Johnson) at 1-505-473-6439 for more...

For the next two weekends, the dramatic story of Spring Awakening will grace the Greer Garson Theatre stage. Director Gail Springer has led a cast of more than 20 through months of rehearsals, which will soon culminate in five performances.

Middletown, the latest SFUAD Performing Arts Department production, opens with Curtis Williams’ Public Speaker waxing philosophic about the nature of small towns. It’s a fun digression that captures the high energy and inherent sadness of the mostly plot-less but emotionally poignant show that follows. The play has an ensemble cast, but there are a few characters given the most time to shine, including: Mathew Eldridge’s John Dodge; Porscha Shaw’s Mary Swanson; Michael Phillip Thomas’s Cop; and Jade Lewis’s Mechanic. Eldridge and Shaw did a phenomenal job carrying the emotional weight for much of the play. Due to the structure of the play, many of the actors had the difficult job of taking what could easily be one-note characters and adding pathos. It seems lazy to make such a blanket statement, but the whole cast was really up to the challenge. Not every joke landed, and not every character left the same impression, but the batting average is so high, it is easy to brush off the shortcomings. Maia Rychlik’s Librarian and Yusef Seevers’s Doctor, in particular, breathed such life into simple characters that leave one combing through all of their dialogue for hidden meaning long after you leave Greer Garson Theatre. The two scenes that stood out most were the scene in space and Lewis’s scene with Tallis Geohegan-Freifeld’s Doctor. The scene in space, featuring Matt McMillan and Robert Henkel Jr. is nestled towards the end of Act One. The scene is by far the most removed from the plot, but is the first point where the themes are front and center. McMillan and Henkel Jr.’s subtle performance prevents the message from being overbearing. Chelsea Kuehnel’s sets are also a delight in their simplicity, giving the space scene a magical feel and the dusty...