Cara Mía Theatre’s
2023-2024 Season

SOLO DELL' ARTE

Enjoy the fiery solo comedy rooted in the spirit of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Tragedies. With nothing more than an empty space, leather masks, and the audience, Carlos García Estévez takes us on two journeys through Comedia dell’Arte where human nature plays the leading role.

LATINIDADES FESTIVAL / 3 PERFORMANCES ONLY!

A Pregones/PRTT & Paul S. Flores’ co-production of

We Have Iré 

by Paul S. Flores
Directed by Rosalba Rolón 

Part of Latinidades Theatre Festival

We Have Iré is a bilingual, musical play about the triumphant journeys of artists from Cuba’s countryside to the United States and back. Brought together by their common pursuit of achieving their dreams, their stories come to life through Afro-Caribbean music, contemporary dance, spoken word, storytelling, and Jazz.

We Have Iré is a National Performance Network/Visual Artist Network (NPN/VAN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in partnership with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gala Hispanic Theatre, MACLA, Miami Light Project, MECA Houston and NPN/VAN.

LATINIDADES FESTIVAL / A NATIONAL TOURING PRODUCTION

In association with a todo dar productions, Cara Mía Theatre presents the National Touring Production of

Your Healing is Killing Me

Written by Virginia Grise
Directed by Kendra Ware

Part of Latinidades Theatre Festival

The launch of the national touring production of Virginia Grise’s manifesto, Your Healing is Killing Me, urges communities to sharpen their tools for self-defense. Her escape hatches to freedom exist everywhere we are willing to see them–from the treatments and consejos of curanderas, abortion doctors, Marxist artists, and bougie dermatologists.

YHiKM is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fund.

LATINIDADES FESTIVAL / 4 PERFORMANCES ONLY!

A Latino Comedy Project production

Barrio Daze

Written and performed by Adrian Villegas

Part of Latinidades Theatre Festival

Barrio Daze is a solo Latino comedy show by Adrian Villegas that tells the story of a fateful Election Day in the barrio through the lives of nine very different characters. The communities under attack strike back against a rabidly conservative politician in the heated Senatorial race. At the frontline is the hood’s very own Chicano school teacher’s inspiring grass-roots campaign.

World Premiere of the English Translation

Cara Mía Theatre and Soul Rep Theatre in association with Mulato Teatro from Mexico present the English Language Premiere of Yanga.

Jaime Chabaud’s Yanga is inspired by the real-life story of Gaspar Yanga, an enslaved African Prince who led a rebellion and successfully negotiated an independent territory with the Spanish crown less than 100 years after the arrival of Hernán Cortés in Mexico. Translated to English for the first time, Yanga sheds light on the history of the Afro-Mexican experience.

Yanga contains adult language and suggested sexual violence.

The project is a part of CMT’s and SRTC’s Cafe/Negro Series, a series of collaborations between the two companies that began in 1998 to bring Black and Brown voices together on Dallas stages. 

Yanga is a recipient of the TACA New Works Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts Fund.

World Premiere

Created in collaboration with Manifesto Poetico: International Laboratory of Theatre Research and Productions

Featuring live music and physical theatre, Diosa explores a world that reflects our ancient feminine archetype, a return to co-existence with Mother Nature, and a future inspired by our collective Dream.