Overview
Teatro Chelsea's fresh selection of New Plays by acclaimed playwrights from across the country. November 20-22
November 20-22 || Friday, Saturday @ 7:30pm Sunday @ 3pm
Offering creative space for Latinx artists to grow and express their work, A-Típico will feature a selection of English/Spanish/Bi-lingual full-length plays presented as staged readings in the style of in-development workshops. Scripts will be read by professional actors and audiences will then be able to share feedback with the playwrights to help them continue to develop their work to its next steps.
As part of Teatro Chelsea’s commitment to cultivating new work, a new work from the A-Típico Festival may be selected for a world premiere production in 2028! Teatro Chelsea’s new play festival, A-Típico, aims to showcase and expand the focus on underrepresented Latinx stories.
The festival also looks to present universal stories: not Latinx plays but plays by Latinx playwrights.
ALL READINGS TAKE PLACE @ Chelsea Theatre Works Black box
Friday November 20th @ 7:30pm
Hoar
by Jeanette Diloné , Directed by Catia
Synopsis:
Amy Torres, an ambitious Afro-Latina phone sex operator preparing to leave for Oxford, has spent years building a future beyond the family that shaped her. But when her estranged family member suddenly returns, Amy is forced to confront Constancia, the aunt who raised her, and the complicated history of their family. As past and present collide, Hoar explores motherhood, abandonment, class mobility, and the cost of becoming the person you fought to be.
Saturday November 21st 7:30pm
Leti's El Mofongo de Miami Bar & Restaurant Presents Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Starring Leti de la Huerta as Lyubov Andreyevna, for One Night Only at Roberto Clemente Park
by Matthew Barbot , Co-Directed by Armando Rivera and Tanya Avendaño Stockler
Synopsis:
As the Miami neighborhood of Wynwood gentrifies and threatens to swallow up what's left of Little San Juan, Leti's El Mofongo de Miami Bar & Restaurant faces closure. That is, unless this final gambit works: a production of The Cherry Orchard intended to raise awareness. As the play rehearses, the staff of the restaurant begin to see the ways their situation both mirrors Chekhov's play and stands separate from it. Is any play truly universal? Can art really change the world?
Sunday November 22nd 3:00pm
The Tragedy of Alejo, the man who sold the world
by Nelson Diaz-Marcano , Directed by Arthur Gomez
Synopsis:
Alejo, a young police informant, believes he’s finally found his ticket out of obscurity when he’s sent to infiltrate a radical group. When his new friends become his targets, Alejo comes up with a plan that will change history forever. Part political thriller, part Shakespearean tragedy, and part Puerto Rican fever dream, Alejo follows a man determined to become the hero of his country, even as the country begins to see him as something else.