Latino Theatre Festival 2013

Spring - Summer 2013 | In the Owen
Approximate running time: varied

Latino Theatre Festival 2013

The Latino Theatre Festival is back, and it’s bigger and better than ever before! This year’s line-up features some of the best local and international Latino artists working in theater today, with three main productions anchoring the celebration. You’ll experience the riveting return of Cuba’s Teatro Buendía, a lyrical world premiere from Pulitzer Prize–winner Quiara Alegría Hudes and the exciting remount of local sensation Albany Park Theater Project’s Home/Land. Plus, the Goodman will host a variety of engaging, informative and interactive programs and events throughout Chicago during the Festival.

Pedro Páramo
Sones de México Ensemble Concert
The Happiest Song Plays Last
Home/Land

Performances

Mar 2013
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Goodman Theatre in association with MCA Chicago presents the Teatro Buendía production of

Pedro Páramo

March 22 - 31, 2013 | Owen Theatre | In Spanish with English subtitles

Havana’s formidable theater innovators Flora Lauten and Raquel Carrío stage one of the greatest magical realism tales in Latin American literature—Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel Pedro Páramo. The story follows a son who returns home to meet his father and reveals how one man’s unchecked appetite destroys both everything he loves and the town that made him great.

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Apr 2013
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The Happiest Song Plays Last

April 13 - May 12, 2013 | Owen Theatre
In English
Produced in association with Teatro Vista

At the dawn of the Arab Spring in an ancient Jordanian town, an Iraq War veteran struggles to overcome the traumas of combat by taking on an entirely new and unexpected career: an action film hero.

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July 2013
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Albany Park Theater Project presents

Home/Land

July 18 - 28, 2013 | Owen Theatre | In English

With its characteristic humanity, creativity, and optimism, the award-winning APTP ensemble brings to vivid theatrical life these stories of desire, risk, resilience, heroism, love, and hope—as immigrant families strive to stay together and make a better life in the land they’ve come to call home.

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