With the 2018 Carnaval of New Latinx Work, a festival celebrating new works
by Latinx theater artists, Latinx Theatre Commons, founded in 2012, aims to
connect national audiences to the Chicago theater community. “In the midst
of the current administration’s virulent hostility towards the Latinx
community, promoting new Latinx stories and the artists who create them has
become all the more urgent,” Lisa Portes, LTC Carnaval Champion, or
organizer, and head of directing at the Theatre School at DePaul
University, said in a press release. “Carnaval 2018 aims to seed the
American Theatre with new Latinx stories and raise visibility of the
vibrant local and national Latinx theatre community.”
The selected plays are as follows: My Father’s Keeper by Guadalís
del Carmen, directed by David Mendizábal; Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally by Noah Diaz, directed by Denise Yvette Serna; Killing of a Gentleman Defender by Carlos Murillo, directed by Michael John Garcés; Shoe by Marisela Treviño Orta, directed by Ricardo Gutierrez; Milton, MI by Paz Pardo, directed by Diane Rodriguez; and Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer, directed by Rebecca Martínez. v
Thu 7/19-Sun 7/22, various times, see website, 2350 N. Racine, latinxtheatrecommons.com. F
