Editor’s Note: The National Museum of Mexican Art announced that all performances of La Tía Mariela have been canceled, due to the U.S. Department of Citizenship Immigration Services denying touring visas for the cast and crew. Refunds for tickets purchased in advance are available through clata.org
Destinos will also feature the final version of UrbanTheater Company’s Back in the Day: An ‘80s House Music Dancesical. The play, initially a work in progress, ran in previews over the summer, and the creative team incorporated feedback from those performances in preparation for the October 10 opening. Other Chicago plays being shown are Aguijón Theater’s Exquisita Agonía by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, which follows an opera singer who loses her husband in a car accident and then pursues the person who received his transplanted heart, and Repertorio Latino Theater Company’s Hotel-Ó, which seeks to bring attention to gendered violence in Latinx communities.
With the local, national, and international acts, Kelly and Salazar believe Destinos represents the depth of the Chicago Latinx theater experience, especially since the plays are being hosted everywhere from marquee venues like Goodman Theatre and Steppenwolf to cultural institutions like the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen and storefront theaters in predominantly Latinx neighborhoods like Aguijón Theatre in Belmont Cragin and Repertorio Latino Theatre Company in Bridgeport.
Through 10/27: various times and locations; see website, 312-631-3112, clata.org, $15-$35.
