Ten years in, San Antonio’s Teatro Audaz is taking its largest bow but. The award-winning Latine theatre firm has introduced “Audaz X: A Decade of Familia,” an anniversary season filled with three mainstage productions and a returning sketch comedy collection.
Laura T. Garza, Alison Vasquez, and Paula Rodriguez based Teatro Audaz as Audacious Theatre in 2016. Since then, the corporate has been singularly targeted on highlighting marginalized communities, staging performs by and about Latine, refugee, girls, and LGBTQ-plus voices.
This season’s mainstage lineup — all regional or San Antonio premieres — retains the decade-long custom. The three productions embrace:
Con Mis Manos: Everybody’s Familia (July 9 to 19) — a bilingual drama a couple of Deep South Texas household reckoning with their mom’s cancerAye, No! A Fashionable Homosexual Fairy Story (August 27 to September 6), a story of a faculty pupil who brings a “pal” house to satisfy her familyEsperanza Rising (December 16 to 22) — a historic work following a pampered landowner’s daughter compelled to labor as a migrant farmworker through the Nice Despair
Locals needing fun can take a look at the return of MAXX: Sketchy Nights in San Antonio, an anarchic comedy collection billed as “SNL-style vitality with puro San Anto taste.” The month-to-month showcases kick off June 24, adopted by reveals in late July, September, and October.
The entire above will happen at a central location for the primary time within the firm’s historical past. Via 2026, Teatro Audaz will preserve its workplace, rehearsal, storage, and efficiency areas with SAY Sí on the youth arts group’s 1310 S. Brazos St. campus.
“Having all of our work in a single place, even for this season, is a significant step ahead for our firm,” mentioned govt inventive director Garza in a launch. “This partnership with SAY Sí permits us to function extra deliberately, deepen our group connections, and proceed constructing the form of inventive house our artists and audiences deserve.”
Along with the efficiency season, Audaz runs the Camp Viva Broadway summer season camp, at the moment in session. The youth program culminates with a pupil showcase on June 20, a manufacturing of Gary Soto’s Novio Boy.
Tickets for the reveals vary from $20-$35. Theater followers can examine the web schedule for matinees, particular ASL and training nights, and Teatro Pa’ Todos, which makes the humanities extra accessible by a pay-what-you-can mannequin.
