This historical narrative shares the struggles and accomplishments of Dolores Huerta, labor rights activist, and union organizer who co-founded the United Farm Workers. Huelga will launch in February for Teatro Milagro’s national tour and will be accompanied by the social justice curriculum from the UNIDAD Teacher Workbook, available in five bilingual formats. The Dolores Huerta Foundation has given their approval for this new biographical play. CAST Aurora Hernandez Aurora (she/her) graduated with a BA in theater performance, costume design, and…
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A creative exploration of being human The Milagro familia is glad to be back with Season 38: renaissance en verso. The darkness of the pandemic is slowly starting to recede, and like the light at the end of the tunnel, we see the prospect of a new tomorrow, revealing a brighter path than the one we’ve traveled so far. Milagro’s season will apply a fresh approach to storytelling, the espectáculo, an exciting matrix of creative engagement events- conversations, exhibitions, performances,…
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REQUEST TO STREAM Federico García Lorca is celebrated the world over for his poetry, music and plays. Yet at the age of 27, he was still a struggling artist living with his parents, staging puppet plays that were laughed off the stage by the critics. His need for freedom fueled his desire to succeed. In search of duende, his travels through New York and Cuba became a quest for cultural integration and gender acceptance. In the Americas, Lorca shined like…
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Milagro is proud to produce the world premiere of City Without Altar by award winning, Dominican-American playwright, Jasminne Mendez. City Without Altar is a two-act play in verse that amplifies the voices and experiences of victims, survivors and living ancestors of the 1937 Haitian Massacre that occurred along the northwest Dominican/Haitian border during the Trujillo Era. In City Without Altar, the audience finds themselves between the present and the 1930’s on the Haitian-Dominican border, in a time and place where…
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