Teatro Bravo Announces New Season

By Ruben Hernandez

Teatro Bravo, the Valley’s resident Latino theater troupe,  has lined up some strong productions for it’s 13^th season. Below is the playbill, and this production nonprofit looks forward to the entire Valley community filling every seat. Break a leg, Teatro Bravo!

Oct. 11-20, 2013

Bless Me, Ultima 

By Rudolfo Anaya
Directed by Ricky Araiza

The play tells the story of six year old Tony Marez and his nurturing relationship with Ultima, a wise curandera who has come to stay with Tony and his family in the last year of her life. Throughout his time with Ultima, Tony delves into a spiritual transformation during cultural and societal changes in the American Southwest. Confronted with opposing expectations from his father Gabriel and his mother Maria, the absence of his brothers due to World War II and an emerging crisis of faith, Tony finds solace in the wisdom of Ultima and begins to create a new spiritual identity for himself with her help and knowledge of their mystical, pre-Columbian traditions.

 March 7-16, 2014

Clock

By Monica Palacios
Directed by Marivel Danielson

For a lesbian couple, becoming parents is a big decision, especially when one partner wants to, the other one is freaking out and everybody has an opinion including, Leti the Goddess of Fertility. Winner of the Teatro Bravo’s 2012 New Plays Festival join us for this hysterical, heartfelt journey into motherhood.

 May 30-June 8, 2014

The MotherF**ker with The Hat

By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Anthony Runfola

Jackie, out on parole and newly sober, is determined to start anew with his childhood sweetheart Veronica, but her unrelenting coke addiction, his slick-talking AA sponsor, and the discovery of another man’s hat in his living room all threaten to derail Jackie’s tenuous progress and parole. A smash hit on Broadway, The Motherf**ker with the Hat is a cheerfully vulgar look at the complicated recovery from love and other addictions.