Season Announcement

Dallas' Cara Mía Theatre gets vocal about social justice in 2022-23 season

Pachuquísmo, performed by Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla.

Photo courtesy of Cara Mia Theatre

Cara Mía Theatre’s 2022-23 season spotlights international, national, and local Latinx artists and activists, reinforcing the company's core values of Chicano/Latinx identities, experimental theater, and social justice.

"We are calling this season 'The Voices of Cara Mía Theatre,'" says executive artistic director David Lozano. "The productions are diverse expressions of Latinidades from Texas and across the Americas. We are bringing the world of Latinx theater to Dallas."

The season kicks off in September 2022 with the annual Latinidades Theatre Fest, bringing in acts from San Francisco, Austin, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The festival opens on September 22 with a free outdoor performance by Cara Mía and continues through the weekend with Pachuquísmo, performed by Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla.

Pachuquísmo portrays the female experiences of the 1940s Zoot Suit Riot era through tap dance, Mexican zapateado, live jazz music, traditional Son Jarocho (from Veracruz, Mexico), and video. It runs September 23-24, 2022.

The second weekend will feature a futuristic, multimedia performance called On the Eve of Abolition, created by Papel Machete from San Juan, Puerto Rico. It runs September 29-October 2, 2022.

Concluding the festival is the Emmy-nominated sketch group The Latino Comedy Project from Austin, which will present ¡Estar Guars!, a hilarious comedy event set "not long ago, in a barrio just around the way." It runs October 7-9, 2022.

November 26-December 18, 2022, Cara Mía Theatre brings back its political tour de force Crystal City 1969, by David Lozano and Raul Treviño.

Named the best new play of 2009-2010 by the Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum, Crystal City 1969 is based on the true story of Mexican-American students in south Texas who walked out of their school and into civil rights history.

February 18-March 12, 2023, Cara Mía Theatre presents To DIE:GO in Leaves, by Frida Kahlo, a play previously devised by Cara Mía Theatre almost 20 years ago. Inspired by Kahlo’s paintings and biography, To DIE:GO in Leaves, by Frida Kahlo, will be performed in repertory in English and Spanish.

April 15-May 30, 2023, brings the world premiere of Orígenes/Origins in association with the Laboratorio de la Máscara from Mexico City.

Written by Mexican director Alicia Martínez Álvarez, Frida Espinosa Müller, Sorany Gutierrez, and David Lozano, Orígenes/Origins is a story of building a new life in a new country while remembering one’s origins.

Featuring masks, movement, and original music by Peruvian composer Fabricio Cavero, Orígenes/Origins is performed in Spanish and English with supertitles.

All performances will be held at the Latino Cultural Center, where Cara Mía Theatre is a resident company.

Season tickets are currently on sale at caramiatheatre.org/plays or by calling 214-516-0706.

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Museum News

National Medal of Honor Museum offers preview at downtown Dallas event

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The AT&T Discovery District hosted a mobile museum pop-up.

A high-profile museum opening in 2025 offered a preview in downtown Dallas: It's The National Medal of Honor Museum, slated to open in Arlington, at Nolan Ryan Expressway and AT&T Way in the Stadium district in spring 2025.

To give folks a preview of coming attractions, the institution dispatched a mobile museum to make a visit to the AT&T Discovery District on November 20, during lunchtime when foot traffic is brisk.

Imagine the sense of wonder and amazement that downtown Dallas denizens must have felt upon the sight of a double decker bus, parked in the District, equipped with video and historical information about the Medal of Honor award, stories of the recipients, and a rendering of how the museum in Arlington will look.

The National Medal of Honor MuseumCourtesy rendering

The goal of The National Medal of Honor Museum is to inspire Americans by honoring and preserving the history of the highest military decoration awarded for valor in combat.

They hope it will serve as a national landmark, illustrating the historical thread of sacrifice and patriotism that runs through all U.S. military service members, past and present.

Beyond its state-of-the-art, interactive experiences, a critical part of the Museum’s mission will be to use the stories of Medal of Honor recipients to inspire their fellow Americans.

It will incorporate the AT&T Virtual Recipient Theater, an augmented reality experience where visitors can interact with with Medal of Honor recipients. The space will be equipped with cutting-edge conversational AI technology complete with voice recognition to allow museum goers to have a conversation in a 3D format with medal of honor recipients living and past.

It will also have AT&T Branded Wi-Fi throughput the museum.

Interior of the mobile Medal of Honor Museum.AT&T