MISSION STATEMENT

Teatro Bravo produces plays in English or Spanish that promote a complex portrait of U.S. Latino and/or Latin American populations of Arizona, and also seeks to develop the talents of Latino actors, directors, playwrights, designers, stage managers and administrators.

TEATRO BRAVO 2008-2009 SEASON

Teatro Bravo returns for a 9th season with three productions, one in English, another in Spanish, another one in a completely bilingual format—because we’re linguistically versatile.

Meanwhile, we will inaugurate our season with an extra bonus: the book! Borders on Stage: Plays Produced at Teatro Bravo will be available in September with an anthology of plays produced at Teatro Bravo through the years. As friends across the country continue to ask for copies of this and that script, we decided to put them together in book form. More details forthcoming.

Meanwhile, here are the three productions we will produce in the course of the season:

SEPTEMBER 2008
At John Paul Theater of Phoenix College
LOS ILLEGALS by Michael John Garces
Directed by Andres Alcala
A new play by Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater, which produced the play in Los Angeles to address issues of social justice. The play tells the story of a California center where workers gather around to seek day labor. An incident that gets a worker arrested and the center shut down leads to a protest that reverberates in the community around it, including the resistance of anti-immigration advocates. A timely play about contemporary issues, told in both English and Spanish.

APRIL 2009
At Playhouse in the Park at VIAD Building
BLOOD WEDDING (IN SPANISH)
By Federico Garcia Lorca
Directed by Guillermo Reyes
Bodas de Sangre: Only at Teatro Bravo! The classic tale of passionate, runaway lovers who provoke a tragedy in their Andalusian town is told fully in its original Spanish text. Hear the great poet, Lorca, in his own language, and enjoy the song and dance that the lyric tale inspires. Spanish-language teachers: get group rates for you and your students!

JUNE 2009
At Playhouse in the Park at VIAD Building
LITTLE QUEEN, a new comedy written and directed by Guillermo Reyes
Love, teenage sex, and the Oscars. A gay teenager in L.A. qualifies for the finals in an Oscar-themed competition, when a forbidden love affair, a run-in with Homeland Security, and a Mormon boy stalker, threaten the perfect life he was imagining for himself. A provocative new comedy by Teatro Bravo’s Artistic Director and author of Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown and Places to Touch Him.