UPCOMING EVENTS
Laughs In Spanish
LAUGHS IN SPANISH
by Alexis Scheer
Directed by Victoria Collado
A Regional Premiere
May 18th – June 9th
Preview performance: Friday, May 17th
It’s Art Basel and the stakes are high for the gallery Mariana runs in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami. And when Mariana’s movie-star mother tries to help out, things get even more complicado. A fast paced, cafecíto-induced comedy about art and success—and mothers and daughters. Join the party, embrace life’s twists and turns, and mark your calendar for this uproarious new comedy. Winner of the Steinberg and the Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards.
1000 Miles
A Co-Prodcuction between New City Players and Abre Camino Collecive
1000 Miles by Vanessa Garcia, directed by Elizabeth Price
Solis arrives in The City looking for a better future from 1000 Miles Across the Sea, a place that has been ravaged by wars, civil and global. The City is a conflation of cultures, citizens, migrants, immigrants, and refugees. It’s teeming with life, possibility, and a punk energy…but with a rapidly growing population, nationalistic impulses are starting to form. The very skills Solis brings with her could either save or destroy this new place she’s beginning to call home. Will The City take her in or wall her off?
Victoria is a producer on this project.
Native Gardens
Native Gardens By Karen Zacarías
Directed by Victoria Collado
Starring David Kwiat and Barbara Sloan
June 10 – July 1, 2023
Preview performance: Friday, June 9
In this sparkling comedy of good intentions and bad manners, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spiral into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.
“…the best stage comedy of the summer.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
#GRACED by Vanessa Garcia
A World Premiere
By Vanessa Garcia
Directed by Sarah Hughes and Victoria Collado
Catherine is searching for something authentic as she embarks on a “Lewis-and-Clark-esque” trip across America sponsored by Monteverde Moonshine with her new lover and colleague, Lewis. Along the way, they pick up a wayward nun named Rosalie who has just gone through deep loss, meet a queer homeschooled teenager named Blake and rummage through the layers of migration and gender inequity that make up America. As Catherine travels, she comes to more questions than answers about “the real America,” her own identity and what authenticity even means anymore.
Presented by Zoetic Stage, Adrienne Arsht Center in collaboration with Abre Camino Collective
Rubenology Ep 3: Alchemy (Like Buttah)
Ruben goes hard-boiled to tell us about his first days in the gritty city and what he learned about an elusive bar of buttery gold.
Written by Vanessa Garcia and Ruben Rabasa
Directed by Victoria Collado
Produced by Abre Camino Collective, Magic City Media, and Robby Ramos
Rubenology Ep 2: My Delorean Wrangler
Ruben goes back to the future in his red jeep wrangler to tell us where he really comes from.
Written by Vanessa Garcia and Ruben Rabasa
Directed by Victoria Collado
Produced by Abre Camino Collective, Magic City Media, and Robby Ramos
Rubenology EP 1: Guanajo Guantanamera
Ruben puts on his Mr. Rogers Cardigan to tell us all about what Thanksgiving means to him.
WRITTEN BY VANESSA GARCIA AND RUBEN RABASA
DIRECTED BY VICTORIA COLLADO
PRODUCED BY
ABRE CAMINO COLLECTIVE
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
MAGIC CITY MEDIA ROBBY RAMOS