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Dirty Laundry
After the woman who unites them dies, three people grapple with love, loss, lust…and household chores. Meanwhile, a spin cycle of voices pings with questions: are you still a daughter when your mother dies? Are you still the other woman when the first woman is gone? And maybe more importantly–how do you clean all that Dirty Laundry?
The Amethyst and The Peridot
The Amethyst and the Peridot explores two siblings as they undergo the transition between high school and college, and then attempt to hold onto the connection they have with one another.
Aztec Pirates and the Insignificance of Life on Mars
Johnny Montenegro is an ICE agent trying to put back the pieces of his life after an ugly incident in the field got him suspended from duty. While arresting a man he had already deported two years earlier, he was called a traitor to his race and he beat the accuser half to death, but he couldn’t shake the idea that had been planted within him: was he a traitor to his race? Equipped with only his commands Johnny embarks on an odyssey as he searches for the truth about his country, his culture, and his memory. However with every answer that he finds, there is something inside of him that becomes less clear. His quest to clear his conscience leads him from strip bars to courtrooms to hospitals to morgues, as he seeks the validation he needs to continue living complicitly.
At the End of the Hall
A reading with the Latinx Playwright’s Circle of a new play by Luis Roberto Herrera.
Somewhere over the Border
Inspired by the real life journey of the author’s mother (Reina Quijada) from El Salvador to the US and by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Somewhere Over the Border embraces the factual and the fantastical in its depiction of one young girl’s pursuit of the American dream. As Reina travels north to the Mexican border, she gathers friends, faces down dangers, and holds tight to the memory of the little boy she left behind. Set in the 1970s and propelled by Cumbia, Mexican Mariachi Boleros, American Rock and Hip Hop, this new musical is both fable and family history—and a testament to the determination born of love.
Saguaros
Five teenagers incarcerated in an ICE Detention Center must navigate daily life as best as they can. On the surface everything seems fine; they make jokes, plan surprise parties, and recount fond memories, but once the big secret is revealed everything falls apart. Alliances are broken. Blood is spilled. And many inappropriate jokes are told. How can these teenagers confront their traumas and attempt to live through the hardships that plague them? How can they find themselves in such a cold place?
Somewhere over the Border
Inspired by the real life journey of the author’s mother (Reina Quijada) from El Salvador to the US and by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Somewhere Over the Border embraces the factual and the fantastical in its depiction of one young girl’s pursuit of the American dream. As Reina travels north to the Mexican border, she gathers friends, faces down dangers, and holds tight to the memory of the little boy she left behind. Set in the 1970s and propelled by Cumbia, Mexican Mariachi Boleros, American Rock and Hip Hop, this new musical is both fable and family history—and a testament to the determination born of love.
Maria Irene Fornes Tribute
Maria Irene Fornes is in many ways the mother of Latinx-American playwrights. Her work explores womanhood, violence, romantic relationships, friendship, and generational trauma among many other things. This tribute is a homage to the legacy she left behind and an exploration of all the ways women bend, break, die, and are reborn again.
The Girls
Come join us for the world premiere of Olivia Spenard’s original play The Girls, a contemporary adaptation of Euripedes’ “The Bacchae” set in the American 1960s, exploring womanhood, counterculture, and control.