Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

The River Niger

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

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“A Drama of considerable power.”- New York Post

“Leaves you with the impression that you’ve been inside a living situation in which real people struggle, hope, win, lose, die and live.”- Daily World

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Produced by | Robey Theatre Company
Directed by | Dwain A. Perry

Husband, father, house painter, and warrior poet Johnny Williams looks forward to his son Jeff’s return as a navigator for the United States Air Force. But Johnny’s pride in his son’s achievement takes an uncharted turn when Jeff comes home and the family discovers the results of his education. And when Mattie the matriarch of the Williams family learns another lethal fact, things begin to unravel. The re-entrance of Mo Jeff’s life long friend, and Mo’s militant followers, with their current take on how to wage “The Revolution” compounds the already heightened tension in the Williams home. The stakes are very high, life and death but the family is armed with love, devotion, loyalty, and the martial spirit to fight the good fight.

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Ruby, Tragically Rotund

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

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Produced by Playwrights’ Arena

in association with the Latino Theater Company

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Written by | Boni B. Alvarez
Directed by | Jon Lawrence Rivera

Ruby is a full figured Filipina who is only one semester away from graduating college when her overbearing and emotionally distant mother takes Ruby’s tuition money in order to fund Ruby’s stick-thin sister’s entrance in a beauty pageant. When Ruby finds out, she vows to enter the contest herself and win the money back, no matter the price. A beautiful play about self image and family of Greek proportions.

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Solitude

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

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A World Premiere by the Latino Theater Company

“Mexicans drink in order to confess. Americans drink in order to forget…” -Octavio Paz

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Written By | Evelina Fernandez
Directed by |José Luis Valenzuela
Choreographed by | Urbanie Lucero
Original Music by | Semyon Kobialka
Produced by | Latino Theater Company


Starring

Robert Beltran (Star Trek, Voyager, Big Love), Evelina Fernandez (Luminarias, American Me), Fidel Gomez (Walk Out, Luminarias, 7th Heaven), Sal Lopez (Luminarias, American Me, Dementia), Geoffrey Rivas (Luminarias, CSI), Lucy Rodriguez (Dementia, ER), Semyon Kobialka on Cello

Inspired by Mexican Nobel prize recipient Octavio Paz’s literary work “Labyrinth of Solitude,” Solitude explores love, death, destiny, family in contemporary lens.  On the day of the million immigrant march, Gabriel invites his old neighborhood friends over after his mother’s funeral.  As the wine pours and mambo explodes, they share secrets, cry together, laugh together, sing rancheras, dance and confess.

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