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From Miami to Maine, and back to Miami, "Sweet Goats & Blueberry Señoritas" is about a Cuban-American baker named Beatriz in Maine as she tries to figure out whether she should stay with the community she’s developed, or reunite with her estranged mother in Miami. Along the way Beatriz explores what it means to belong as she cooks up the recipes of her childhood with the raw ingredients of her new hometown.

After a triumphant, multi award-winning world premiere run, seen by over 15,000 audience members, Papá Cuatro is back by popular demand! 5 immigrant virtuosic musicians share their real-life stories on stage and come together to celebrate Venezuelan music, culture and pay tribute to the immigrant experience. Conceived by Venezuelan-Canadian director Juan Souki (Miami New Drama’s Viva la Parranda), and with singer-songwriter, Mariaca Semprún (Piaf, La Lupe, Latin Grammy 2020); cuatro player, Miguel Siso (Latin Grammy 2018); harpist, Eduardo Betancourt (Latin Grammy 2010); bandola player, Mafer Bandola (LADAMA); and drummer, Adolfo Herrera (Latin Grammy Nominee). AWARDS: 2022 OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY 2022 BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL 2022 OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN

The next addition to our "Dans Le Avant Garde" series. In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady. Younger brother Oshoosi is just out of prison and aimless. Elega, Oshoosi's old prison-mate, is a mysterious complication. A simple circle defines a world that beings in ritual and evolves into a touch and tender drama of what it means to brother and be brothered. Flights of poetry, music, dance, and West African mythology combine in a contemporary tale that explores the tenuousness of freedom and the need to belong somewhere, to something, to someone. Following the matinee performance on June 24, we will have a talkback entitled “Bein' a Brutha”, focusing on masculinity and brotherhood in the Black Male community. In addition, we will delve into the traditional emotional tendencies in male culture, and explore concepts of love, weakness, the black male body, and effeminacy. Featuring “Universal Man” Mo Beasley, Researcher/Educator, Brian Knowles, and Co-Founder of Project T.H.U.G, David L. Jackson, the essence of this talkback will unpack how non-sexual relationships between men are tainted and looked down upon, as well as, the effects of those responses, be it emotional instability or generational traumas. This production contains strong language and mature content. “THE BROTHERS SIZE is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection.(www.dramatists.com)”

José Julián Martí Pérez fue un nacionalista, poeta, filósofo, ensayista, periodista, profesor y editor cubano del siglo XIX, considerado un héroe nacional por su papel en la liberación de su país de España. Aunque reivindicada tanto por la izquierda como por la derecha, su historia como ser humano pleno, y no como santo o mártir, se cuenta en la obra Hierro, del conocido dramaturgo cubano-español Carlos Celdrán. Hierro es una profunda reinterpretación que trae de vuelta a Martí, como hombre, esposo, amante. Vuelve al comienzo de la historia de Martí, incluyendo los años duros y angustiosos de su exilio en la ciudad de Nueva York, lejos de su amada Cuba. Esta fue una época llena de angustias, enfermedades, resistencias, amores, lealtades y traiciones de las que pocas veces se habla en las narrativas oficiales. La obra subvierte y desmantela la política en torno a la historia de Martí para mostrar las partes íntimas, privadas e inesperadas de su historia. Simultaneous audio translation to English available. Traducción al inglés de audio simultánea disponible.

Es el último día de la biblioteca y el bibliotecario irá abriendo muchos de nuestros cuentos favoritos y recorriendo sus aventuras. Una historia original que combina los mejores momentos de los cuentos tradicionales. Una obra dinámica que cuenta hasta cinco historias diferentes innovando la forma y la técnica en cada una de ellas con una decena de títeres de todos los tamaños, teatro de sombras y escenarios asombrosos. Propone no dejar que los cuentos y la imaginación desaparezcan. Este evento será bilingüe - sera presentado en Ingles y Español. This event will be bilingual - it will be presented in English and Spanish.

Cervantes inventó un caballero andante, un Quijote, que no ganó batallas, un loco que amaba la libertad para hacer el bien. Siempre pareció un buscador de lo justo y lo verdadero. La locura de atreverse a decir la verdad. Los personajes de la mítica novela de la literatura española necesitaron para existir en nuestros ensayos de una balada que descubriera el camino hacia un tejido nuevo. Los actores a veces rompen las reglas del realismo con acciones sorprendentes. A esos actores la técnica para interpretar los protege. La metafísica del teatro no es más que lo ético y lo técnico, otorgándole en cada ensayo y en cada representación, un nuevo valor al silencio.\ This event will be presented in Spanish only./Este evento se presentará solamente en Español.

El mayor best seller literario costarricense, una novela escrita por José León Sánchez en 1968. Narra los terribles acontecimientos ocurridos en la cárcel de San Lucas, isla ubicada en el Pacífico costarricense. En 2016, Teatro Espressivo decide llevar a las tablas esta relevante novela. La dramaturga Caridad Svich realizó una adaptación al teatro. Un elenco de experimentados actores da vida a esta obra, que constituye una intensa reflexión sobre el valor de la libertad. Este evento se presentará exclusivamente en Español. / This event will be presented in Spanish only.

City Theatre's Summer Shorts: Homegrown Edition features a lineup of new short plays by Miami's hottest playwrights. Stay cool with eight refreshing and revealing 10-minute plays spotlighting the voices of our community. Set against the backdrop of the Magic City, these provocative and entertaining stories feature a cast of diverse, Miami-based actors under the vision of City Theatre artistic director Margaret M. Ledford.

90 min No intermission Mild adult language In this sparkling comedy of good intentions and bad manners, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.

Mr. Hatred is a lonely, sullen, and very bad-tempered character. One day, very early in the morning, he received the notification that a new neighbor will move to the apartment next door. This upsets him so much that he decides to prevent that move. What he doesn't know is that the new neighbor is Mrs. Love, a character completely opposite to him, which makes everything worse. Thus, Mr. Hatred undertakes a plan to attack his new neighbor and prevent her from settling in that apartment. What our hateful character does not know, is that everything he will try to do against his neighbor, will turn in him changing his life.