LCCT in the News

The 9/11 story you may have forgotten comes to the LCCT stage By Kurt Johnson Las Cruces Bulletin For five days, the little town of Gander, Newfoundland, underwent a transformation. Its airport was built in an era in which transatlantic flights needed to refuel before continuing across the ocean. By Sept. 11, 2001, it had become largely a quiet reminder of aviation's past. Then, in a matter of hours, it became one of the busiest airports in the world. Thirty-eight commercial

Bulletin Report From gothic horror to Christmas miracles, Las Cruces Community Theatre’s upcoming season will take audiences on a journey through the emotional and the absurd – all without leaving the city’s vibrant downtown. Read More

LCCT's latest production has special meaning to director Luis Castro Kurt Johnson Las Cruces Bulletin For Luis Alfonso Castro, directing “9 to 5” at Las Cruces Community Theatre was never just about putting on a musical. The production had lived in his head for years before rehearsals ever began — before the auditions, before the music filled the theater, before his sister stood under the lights singing Judy Bernly’s emotional anthem, “Get Out and Stay Out.” Long before all o

Mia Berkson and Troy Ainsworth find themselves through theatre Kurt Johnson Las Cruces Bulletin The applause inside Popejoy Hall had barely settled when Mia Lopez Berkson started trying to process what had happened. Weeks earlier, the recent Organ Mountain High School graduate had been on stage dressed as Scuttle in “Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” throwing herself into the role of an ec centric seabird for laughs. Now she was standing under the lights as the winner of Best Act