Company One & Phoenix Theatre present LEARN TO BE LATINA

Company One and Phoenix Theatre Artists Present the New England Premiere of Enrique Urueta's LEARN TO BE LATINA

About the Production

"A post-911 race farce/lesbian romantic comedy (with dance breaks)"

Hanan is a promising young pop singer, and she has a record label dying to record her... until they find out she's Lebanese. Not to worry, they say Hanan can still be a star-as long as she learns to be Latina! In this fiercely funny New England premiere, cultural identities and the music business are poked with some very, very sharp sticks. Don't miss what is sure to be the most blistering comedy to play in Boston this season.

Learn to be Latina's talented cast includes Maureen Adduci, David Giagrando, Shawna O'Brien, Kristina Kattar, Rory Kulz, and Crystal Lisbon. Phoenix Artistic Director Greg Maraio directs.

About the Playwright

Enrique Urueta's plays include The Johnson Administration, The Danger of Bleeding Brown, and Forever Never Comes. His plays have been produced by Impact Theatre, Golden Thread Productions, Crowded Fire Theater Company, and Stray Cat Theatre with forthcoming productions by Monkey Wrench Collective and The Lobster Theatre Project. He has received a Theatre Bay Area New Works Fund award for Forever Never Comes and was selected by Sir David Hare as a runner-up for the 2009 Yale Drama Series prize for The Danger of Bleeding Brown. Learn To Be Latina received Aurora Theatre Company's Global Age Project award, won the inaugural Great Gay Play contest sponsored by Pride Films & Plays, and was named Best Ensemble Comedy of 2010 by the SF Weekly. SF Weekly named him Best Up-And-Coming Playwright in 2010 and Southern Theatre Magazine identified him as one of "40 Groundbreaking Playwrights" who are "changing the U.S. theatre." He is a recipient of a Jerome Fellowship for 2011-12 from the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis. BA: The College of William & Mary; MFA: Brown University.

WHAT: Phoenix Theatre Artists and Company One present the New England Premiere of
LEARN TO BE LATINA by Enrique Urueta. Directed by Greg Maraio
Mature audience only, contains crude language and adult situations.

WHEN: May 13 - June 5, 2011
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 P.M.
Sunday Matinees at 3:00 P.M.

WHERE: Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA

TICKETS: $20 General Admission,
$15 Seniors (65+), $10 Students with I.D.

BOX OFFICE: Phone: 866.811.4111
Web: www.companyone.org
In Person: one hour before show at box office

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