Director

In Aztlán, Chicanx playwright Luis Alfaro Aztlán uses humor, mitos, and teatro to tell a contemporary California story about the search for the resonance of the cultural, mythical, and political remnants of Aztlán in our modern world. Subtitled "A Chicano Califas Triptico" Aztlán links 959 years of history through three playlets. The story travels over hundreds of years using mythic Mayan and Mexica imagery to tell a contemporary tale of a young man on parole, attempting to reimagine a new future for himself. In a land once stricken with drought and now drowning in empire, Aztlán battles with a series of real and mythic demons that haunt his journey toward making a new life for himself. This play also marks the return of Sean San José to the Magic stage.

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Magic World Premiere Aztlán by Luis Alfaro

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

Join us for the Nevada Premiere of Wolf Play. Hansol Jung’s new play focuses on identity, love, and parenting in a funny, unruly, and provocative theatrical experience. With a wolf and a puppet, the play asks us to consider the question, “What makes a Family?”

Nevada Conservatory Theatre: Wolf Play

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

“La Virgen del Tepeyac” dramatizes the four apparitions of the Virgin of Guadalupe to Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac outside Mexico City in 1531. The play climaxes with the miracle of the roses that sealed the conversion of pre-Columbian Mexico to Christianity. The appearance of the Virgen de Guadalupe stands as a beacon, a shining ray of light and hope, across the centuries of darkness and injustice, for the natives of the Americas. This Christmas pageant was adapted from a four-character liturgical drama written by an anonymous Spanish monk in the 18th Century. Luis Valdez reworked the original story to include new characters and scenes, and also introduced music and dance. Importantly, the piece includes Aztec song and dance, adding complex layers to this pageant which embraces both Catholic and Indigenous rituals. As El Teatro Campesino’s longest running play, it is cherished by audience members who come from all around the world to see it performed every other year since 1971 in concert with “La Pastorela.”

Director

Kinan Valdez

Events

Past events

Jun 25 - Jul 20, 2025

Magic World Premiere Aztlán by Luis Alfaro · Magic Theatre

Mar 27 - Apr 6, 2025

Nevada Conservatory Theatre: Wolf Play · UNLV Department of Theatre

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