Dallas Morning News
The earthly and heavenly meet in Teatro Dallas premiere of ‘A Grave Is Given Supper’
Teatro Dallas’ multimedia production based on local poet Mike Soto’s collection A Grave Is Given Supper creates an evocative atmosphere in the center’s courtyard for Soto’s free-verse musings on the impact of the drug trade on Mexicans, including the lovers Consuelo and Topito at the center of the story.
Dallas Morning News
Arab-futurism, belly dancers, drummers and paper sculptures — Teatro Dallas’ International Festival is back
“Go big or go home” could be the tagline of Teatro Dallas’ 19th International Festival. Its two world premieres are collaborative, experimental music-dance pieces still being assembled as we speak. Though she was involved in conceptualizing the heady new works, executive director Sara Cardona has mostly left it to the guest artists to come up with engaging evenings.
TheaterJones
Migdalia Cruz’s Fur, presented by Teatro Dallas at the Latino Cultural Center, is gruesome, funny, and provacative.
In a strange coincidence, Migdalia Cruz’s Fur is the second show I’ve reviewed for TheaterJones involving a hirsute female sideshow attraction, the first being Amphibian Stage Productions’ 2018 interactive piece Eye of the Beholder about “the ugliest woman in the world,” Julia Pastrana. What’re the odds? But even if they share some common ground, the sickly, darkly comedic love (?) story at the heart of Fur feels worlds apart from the more prosaic tragedy of Pastrana’s life. Directed by Artistic Director Sorany Gutierrez, Teatro Dallas’s production showcases a riveting performance by its lead actress, Lindsay Hayward, who drives the audience from revulsion to attraction and back again as the play plunges toward its bloody and inevitable conclusion, though the decision to strip some of the original dystopian elements from the piece leaves it feeling untethered.
TheaterJones
At Teatro Dallas, Guillermo Calderón’s Villa is powerful commentary on how we remember government-sanctioned atrocities.
A regional premiere, Teatro Dallas’ production of Villa by Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón puts us in the room with three women charged with deciding how future generations will relate to the site of Villa Grimaldi, an infamous detention camp in Santiago, Chile, razed to the ground in an attempt to erase its infamy after the downfall of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
TheaterJones
At Teatro Dallas, Cora Cardona’s play 1968 looks at a year of change, from perspectives in the U.S. and Mexico.
Some years furrow in our emotional memories in ways that linger for decades. Teatro Dallas’ world premiere of Cora Cardona’s play 1968, set in that landmark year, focuses on the experiences of one Mexican family, the Saenzes, split between living in Dallas and Mexico City. This concept expands the possibilities of experiencing the historical events from both sides of the border, and from a macro as well as micro historical perspective.
In the News
New York Times
What’s Playing in Dallas? With Streaming, I Could Find Out
Open-air shows. Joint productions. Filmed dress rehearsals. Here’s a faraway close-up on how one theater community has stayed reasonably robust in adversity…
Dallas News
The Dallas City Council gives unanimous approval to a new home for two Hispanic theater companies
In a unanimous vote, the Dallas City Council on Wednesday night awarded two Hispanic theater companies, Cara Mía Theatre and Teatro Dallas…
TheaterJones
An interview with the new executive director of Teatro Dallas about her visual art and producing Migdalia Cruz’s play Fur
Sara Cardona is a visual artist and the new executive director at Teatro Dallas. Her mother, Cora Cardona, started Teatro 35 years ago. As the organization…
Dallas News
A new arts collective’s first mission? Racial equity in Dallas arts funding
A new arts collective is working to amplify the voices of minorities in Dallas. Led by four local theater companies — Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Cara Mía Theatre, Soul Rep Theatre Company and Teatro Dallas…
Dallas News
Cora Cardona, pioneering leader of Teatro Dallas, stepping down after 32 years
Long before painter Frida Kahlo and the Day of the Dead were fixtures in American pop culture, Cora Cardona was producing plays about them in Dallas…
Theater Jones
Q&A: Cora Cardona
The Teatro Dallas founder on 1968, her new play opening this weekend, plus the theater’s significance and its future…
