Behind La Luna Series: Living Large’s Diane Rodriguez
About the Behind La Luna Series ::: About the Behind La Luna Series::: Behind La Luna is a blog and video series dedicated to taking you behind the curtain to find out more about how we create the work we do at Teatro Luna. From featuring artists who are working on our plays or programs to tracking the development of entirely new departments like TLTV (Teatro Luna’s new video dept) Behind La Luna gets you all the backstage chisme you could ever hope for! Find the Behind La Luna Series blogs on our YOUTUBE page: youtube.com/teatroluna and catch the blog segments here on our...
Read MoreTix Now On Sale for Living Large In a Mini Kind of Way!
That’s right Chicago! Tickets are finally on sale for Teatro Luna’s biggest production ever: Living Large In A Mini Kind Of Way, written and directed by Obie award winning Diane Rodriguez– a guest Luna Artist all the way from Los Angeles! You can purchase tickets by clicking here or by calling our box office: 773.819.5862 For more information visit the full LIVING LARGE page for all the details here, or visit our facebook page event here. Check out the draft graphic below… the final is coming soon…. and don’t miss her first videoblog...
Read MoreApril Fools Launch Party
What do you get when an HBO Def Poet teams up with her actor-turned-finance guru-turned-emcee brother? April Fools, a poetic hip-hop fusion aimed to blur the barrier between the two artistic worlds. Kristiana Colón and Damon Williams will launch their playful hip-hop duo on March 31st at Luna Central, the new home of Teatro Luna, Chicago’s only all-Latina theater company. A blazing hot line up of performers will kick-off the night, including Def Poet and National Slam Champion Roger Bonair-Agard, poet and vocalist Kris de la Rash, Chicago Music Award winning vocalist and emcee Squair...
Read MoreMarisela Orta’s: Woman On Fire
FREE RSVP’S will be taken online, but feel free to show up at the door too! ABOUT MARISELA ORTA: Marisela Treviño Orta received an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her plays have been read at the 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), 2006 [Inside] the Ford Summer Reading Series, 2007 Primer Pasos: Un Festival De Latino Plays, 2007 BAPF, Marin Theatre’s 2007 Nu Werkz, and 2008 In The Rough. Her first play, Braided Sorrow, won the 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama, received its world premiere in 2008 at Su Teatro in Denver, CO. and won the...
Read MoreIC: An Intern Reviews Crossed: Immigrant = Mexican? The World Premiere
Intern’s Corner Blog #1 By Ariana Altiery Klank! I swear I slammed the door on accident. The ensemble was still rehearsing when I got there and clumsily slammed the back door which of course was just behind the stage. The ladies of TL were unmoved. They were focused and energetic performing what you would think was opening night for an empty theatre. I get out to the front and am given a t-shirt to change into. I lock myself in the small box office and quickly switch shirts, nervously watching the door hoping the the lock works. A rough knock startled me while half naked. I quickly...
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