Upcoming: Cuerdas (Strings) by Barbara Colio, Austin Latino Theatre Alliance at Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center, September 13 - 29

(para información en español, ver abajo)


THE AUSTIN LATINO THEATER ALLIANCE PRESENTS
 
 


“CUERDAS”
a play by Barbara Colio
September 13th - 29th, 2012 with shows Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM
(No show will be performed on September 15th 2012)
Location: The Black Box at the MACC (Mexican American Cultural Center)
600 River Street, Austin, Tx 78702
General Admission: $18.00
Students and Senior Citizens: $13.00
(Students and Senior Citizens please enter the CODE: "SAS13")
Students and Senior Citizens will be asked to show an ID at the ticket booth
Group Discounts Available at the Theater Box Office for $13.00/groups over 10 people
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Karla Longnion: klongnion@altateatro.com 512.626.8968
Anjanette Gautier: agautier@altateatro.com 512.665.4560
ALTA: 512.537.ALTA (2582)
PERFORMED IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES

THE AUSTIN LATINO THEATER ALLIANCE PRESENTA

“CUERDAS”

Una obra de Bárbara Colio

Septiembre 13 al 29 del 2012 con presentaciones los Jueves, Viernes y Sábados a las 8 PM

(No habrá presentación el día 15 de Septiembre 2012)

Lugar: La Caja Negra del MACC (Mexican American Cultural Center)

Centro Cultural México Americano

600 River Street, Austin, Tx 78702

Admisión General: $18.00

Estudiantes y Jubilados: $13.00

Estudiantes y Juvilados favor de ingresar el CODIGO: "SAS13"

(Los estudiantes y jubilados deberán presentar identificación en la taquilla del teatro)

Descuentos para grupos disponibles en la taquilla del teatro: $13.00 por persona para grupos de 10 personas o más

INFORMACION DE CONTACTO:

Karla Longnion: klongnion@altateatro.com 512.626.8968

Anjanette Gautier: agautier@altateatro.com 512.665.4560

ALTA: 512.537.ALTA (2582)

Presentación en Español con subtítulos en Ingles

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Upcoming: Digging Up the Dirt by Cherrie Moraga, ProArts at Mexican-American Cultural Center, February 11

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presents a staged reading of

Digging Up the Dirt

by Cherrie Moraga

February 11th, 2:00 PM

Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River Street Austin TX 78701 (click for map)

Admission is Free with the donation of a non-perishable item.

Post performance talk-back with Cherrie Moraga

Digging Up the Dirt takes place, as Moraga writes, “Inside The Poet’s head, somewhere in the fragmented Chicano nation of Aztlán.” Here, as in most Moraga plays, the playwright uses the imagined landscape of the Southwest to poignantly explore those censored questions that continue to impact Chicana lives. And, as in most Moraga plays, such depictions give all of us pause –regardless of race or gender or sexuality. This is especially the case in “Digging Up the Dirt” where the plot thematically interweaves two murder stories.

Natividad - A homemade Pastorela, Austin Latino Theatre Alliance at Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center, December 1 - 17

Every year since 1997 Austin's Spanish-speaking community has crafted a Christmas play, taking the model of the traditional Pastorela pageant of long date, in which the birth of Jesus is witnessed by a simple shepherd girl. As in virtually all folk theatre, the story can be told many different ways and styles. The sponsoring coalition ALTA (the Austin Latino Theatre Alliance) recruits a different director every year for the Spanish-language enactment, so that each Austin Pastorela is unlike another -- the versions stretch back in local memory, like Christmas ornaments specially crafted for the tree.

Shifting the metaphor: it was a pleasure again this year to unpack ALTA's annual gift to the public. Director Alejandro Pedemonte and playwright Miguel Angel Santana have put together a thoroughly contemporary Christmas story. Natividad is the gentle story of the upper-middle-class Pastor ("Shepherd") family, gathered for Christmas in a home furnished both with contemporary art -- courtesy of Austin artists -- and cleanly modern contemporary furniture, courtesy of the Motif furniture stores of Austin and San Antonio.

David and Estrella ("Star") Pastor have two attractive unmarried adult children, Sara and Benjamin. Sara's serious boyfriend -- her novio -- attends the meal. Peripheral figures provide drama and comic relief: Aunt Lucy, extravagantly dramatic and suspicious; rustic neighbor "El borrego" Reyes ("Sheep" King(s)) and a couple of flirtatious young ladies, Solia and Dora. In the family chat over dinner Tia Lucy rakes up disputes from many years before and insinuates that Sara's novio is being unfaithful because he is concerned by the plight of a young pregnant unmarried woman he met at his grocery store job.

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Upcoming: Sentimientos Divinos by Luis Ordaz, Proyecto Teatro at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center, April 16

Received directly:

(click for map to the Mexican-American Cultural Center, 600 River Street)

Upcoming: Mud Offerings by Nathalie Goodnow, Black Box Theatre, Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center, April 16

Received directly:

(click for map to the Mexican-American Cultural Center, 600 River Street)