Season Announcement

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

Pachuquísmo, performed by Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla.

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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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Season Announcement

Kitchen Dog Theater unleashes immersive 2025 season in new Dallas space

Kitchen Dog Theater presents Safe at Home

Photo by Jordan Fraker

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Seven years after announcing it had purchased a building in the Design District, Kitchen Dog Theater is finally ready to move into its new home.

The third and final production of its 2025 season — the theater company's 34th — will take place all around the new "Doghouse." The other two productions will follow the immersive format at non-traditional performance spaces that was established last season.

With three fully produced events that each run the gambit from captivating and gutsy to heartfelt and hilarious, the monthly New Works Festival Staged Readings Series returns, as does the 23rd annual PUP Fest, nurturing high school talent from all over DFW.

First up is the area premiere of Will Eno's Wakey, Wakey, directed by KDT's artistic director Tina Parker and starring KDT co-artistic director Christopher Carlos.

"Is it now? I thought I had more time." These first words in Will Eno's play are spoken by Guy, a man who knows, like all of us on some level, that he is about to die. The play questions why we are here and the journeys that everyone takes to eventually get to the same place. Performances will take place at Expo Park, 840 Exposition Avenue, and run February 7-23, 2025.

Production No. 2 is full of mystery: The title and performance location will be announced soon and run in March/April 2025.

The Happiness Gymby Ken Weitzman closes out the season in August 2025 (exact dates TBA).

This regional premiere is a joyous, experiential event based on the science of well-being. Participants take part in a curated theatrical experience meant to boost their sense of happiness, joy, and feelings of connection. This one-of-a-kind project will be the soft opening to Kitchen Dog’s new theater and will take place all over the entire facility, giving patrons unparalleled access to KDT’s new home.

From March to July 2025, the 26th annual 2025 New Works Festival will showcase four-to-five staged readings of the newest and most exciting local and regional playwrights working in contemporary theater today. Each reading will feature some of DFW's most accomplished actors and directors and will take place at different venues across DFW.

For its 23rd annual event, PUP Fest will feature six staged readings of jury-selected plays written by DFW high school students, featuring student actors directed by area professional directors. PUP Fest is the culminating event of Dallas Playwriting Arts Collective (D-PAC), a partnership with Dallas ISD and Junior Players. Performance location is TBA, but the event will happen June 7, 2025.

For more information, visit kitchendogtheater.org or call 214-953-1055.

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