Nilsa Reyna's LEGENDS OF TEXAS Receives Staged Reading for Lone Star Theatre

Nilsa Reyna's LEGENDS OF TEXAS will receive a staged reading for Lone Star Theatre Company on September 29. Directed by David Davila, the new play centers around a gun store in South Texas. LEGENDS OF TEXAS is part of the on-going Texas Reads series at Lone Star Theatre Co and developed through the Robert Askins Playwright Fellowship.Nancy, is a gun-reform activist in New York who has just inherited her father's gun shop in South Texas. When she returns to "El Valle" to put his affairs in order and turn the gun shop into a cafe, she is met with opposition at every turn from her father's new wife, her gun-toting sister, and her ex-boyfriend who now manages it. What could possibly go wrong?

Leading the cast as Nancy is playwright Nilsa Reyna. Joining her are Lillian Andrea de Leon, Alexandra Castro, Bryn Packard, Paul Pakler, and Jacqui Rêgo.Now in it's fifth season, Lone Star Theatre Company is dedicated to bringing Texas Pages to New York stages by giving opportunities to Texas writers to have their work presented in the center of theatre around the world.For more information about Lone Star Theatre Company visit their website, www.lonestartheatre.com.The reading is September 29th at Jack Dempsey's 33rd St at 7pm with a reception to follow. For tickets click here: Legends of Texas Reading.