¡Obras en Evolución 2025!

Show Description:

Be a part of future Teatro Público de Cleveland work! 

Teatro Público de Cleveland presents a workshop series of new scripts and scenes written by local Latino artists. Experience work-in-progress plays as actors and directors make bold choices with scripts in hand! 

A bilingual evening with plays in English and Spanish.

FEATURED PLAYS:

Scenes from “Mírame”
Mírame explores themes of self-expression, belonging, LGBTQ+ relationships and cultural identity. Hope struggles through her last year of high school, writing college essays, discovering who she is and what this means for her and her friends and family.

When the Sky Fell
A trio’s journey navigating a post Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.

Empanadas Under a Half-Moon
Three voices weave a spell of healing, ancestral wisdom, and matriarchal magic, stirring together family recipes, sazón, and the quiet power of resistance, served warm under a half moon.

Scenes from “Los monstruos no se lloran”
This piece explores Uruguay’s military dictatorship through the eyes of the dictator’s wife, who believes him to be a loving, exemplary man. But when the truth finally breaks through, love turns to terror and denial can no longer hold the lie together.

MRA
A televised interview where members of the MRA describe their organization, involvement, mission and activities. This dynamic team of femmes and thems has taken neighborhood watch and community safety to a whole new level.

The Care Drain
Deni works as a nanny for children in the U.S. in order to send money to her own children back in Mexico, who she grows distant from. Deni represents a phenomenon under modern capitalism in which women from the Global South must migrate to imperialist countries to labor as care workers, draining the care from their own homes.

I Like to Be in America
A Boricua woman claps to the beat of a promise: America. But what does it mean to belong to a place that doesn’t always believe you should belong to it?