q-Staff Theatre

Hearts on Fire Cabaret
2025-02-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
A Patty Stephens Song Viral Studio Production featuring:
Carol Colp Brown
Lucy Gilliland
Barb LoLordo
Laurie Martinez
Melissa Martinez
Jon Rabka
Bernagene Shay
Janie Woodard
Susan Clark, keys

Bad Mouth- Spring!
2025-05-10 19:00 - 21:30
BAD MOUTH Words | Music | Feelings
You’re invited to Bad Mouth Spring Winds Edition!
When: Saturday, May 10th. Show starts at 7pm, doors open at 6:30
Where: q-Staff theater, 400 Broadway Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102
(parking available along Broadway)
What: Reading, music, books, snacks, beverages, fun, delight!
Come on out to enjoy great poetry, music, and snacks, and to raise some money for a very worthwhile cause. The majority of proceeds will be donated to El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos!
Please join us!
Featuring poets James Arthur, Mary B. Moore, and Lise Goett, and music by Good Troy Edwards!
As always, there will be snacks and beverages!
You can reserve your place ahead of time (to help us know how many snacks to make and beverages to provide)!
Venmo BadMouth Burque @bad-mouth. Tell us how many places you are reserving.
Suggested amounts:
Under 18 or student: $5 per person
Adult: $10 per person
Any amount donation is helpful and very welcome for sustaining the series!

James Arthur

Mary B. Moore

Lise Goett

Good Troy Edward
Hope to see you there!
-Rebecca at Bad Mouth

Dwelling: an Immersive Performance Event
2025-06-21 20:00 - 22:00
Dwelling: an Immersive Performance Event at q-Staff Theatre
Albuquerque, NM – Dwelling is a one-night-only immersive performance event created
collaboratively by a group of local artists as part of an international project exploring themes of
home and belonging. Taking place on Saturday, June 21 at 8:00 PM, artists will transform q-Staff
Theater into a living room cafe where scenes, sounds, storytelling, and images unfold all around
them.
Born out of an intensive week-long group collaboration, Dwelling asks: What, who, where is
home, and why is it that way? “Home is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot,” said
Tara Khozein, one of the project’s co-leaders, “but we are often thinking of completely different
things when we say it. Some people think of a building, others think of a feeling, others think of
a person. It makes us ask ourselves where we come from and what makes us feel safe.”
The performance features contributions from an interdisciplinary group of local artists and
educators including: Diana Delgado, Marisa DeMarco, Esther Elia, Kat Kinnick, Mariel Leon
Lazcano, Zahra Marwan, Aziza Murray, Hope Orange, Graham Parker Ransell, Rich Van
Schouwen, Nick Tauro, and Sandy Timmerman.
Over a week of collective work, the artists will create pieces individually and collaboratively that
emerge from these themes including: How do you create home; leaving home: travel &
migration; eviction, statelessness, and deportation; chosen home, chosen family, and banding
together; who makes you feel at home; being a stranger in a society; sanctuary
Dwelling is a project under the leadership of New Mexico-raised classical singer and theater
artist Tara Khozein and Hungarian director Martin Boross of Promenade: Albuquerque. Boross
shared a more personal perspective: “In the past years, my personal and political definitions of
home have become less stable. As someone who’s had to leave my home country, Hungary, and
as an artist who often works with people who live in precarity, the question of what makes a
place feel like home has become urgent.”
The performance is presented in collaboration with q-Staff Theatre, where the artists invite the
public to dwell on what it is we call home.
$20 Tickets available at this link: http://tiny.cc/dwellingabq
Space is limited — reserve early!

Bad Mouth Autumn Frolic
2025-09-07 19:00 - 21:00
You’re invited to Bad Mouth Autumn Frolic!
When: Saturday, September 6th. Show starts at 7pm, doors open at 6:30
Where: q-Staff theater, 400 Broadway Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102
(parking available along Broadway)
What: Reading, music, books, snacks, beverages, fun, delight!
Come on out to enjoy great poetry, nonfiction, music, and snacks, and to raise some money for a very worthwhile cause. The majority of proceeds will be donated to the New Mexico Dream Team!
Please join us!
Featuring writers Lisa Hase-Jackson, Gary Jackson, and Christina Socorro Yovovich, and musician Keith Burnstein!
As always, there will be snacks and beverages!
You can reserve your place ahead of time (to help us know how many snacks to make and beverages to provide)!
Venmo BadMouth Burque @bad-mouth. Tell us how many places you are reserving.
Suggested amounts:
Under 18 or student: $5 per person
Adult: $10 per person
Any amount donation is helpful and very welcome for sustaining the series!

Lisa Hase-Jackson

Gary Jackson

Christina Socorro Yovovich

Keith Burnstein
Hope to see you there!
-Rebecca at Bad Mouth

Bad Mouth: Pumpkin Spice Edition
2025-11-22 19:00 - 22:00
Bad Mouth Words and Music: Pumpkin Spice Edition!
November 22, 7 pm. Doors open at 6:30.

Join us for a magical evening of poetry, prose, and music with featured writers Marisa P. Clark, Joanna Fuhrman, and David Meischen, with music by Tom Andes.
Books, snacks, beverages, delight!
The majority of donations will go to the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center!
To reserve space ahead of time, just Venmo BadMouth Burque @bad-mouth
& let us know how many seats you’d like.
Suggested donations:
Under 18/student: $5
Adult: $10-20

Zambomba: Navidad Flamenca
2025-12-20 17:00 - 19:00
