MTG To Hold General Auditions 6/11

Miracle Theatre Group, the Northwest’s premier Latino arts and culture organization, will hold its general auditions on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at the Milagro Theatre (525 SE Stark St., Portland). Olga Sanchez, one of the company’s two artistic directors, says the theatre this year is particularly interested in seeing actors who sing and who can speak some Spanish, since most of the work in the nonprofit theatre’s 2009-2010 season taps those talents. Performers should prepare two contrasting monologues, totaling no more than four minutes, plus a song. Appointments are required; contact Olga Sanchez at olga@milagro.org or 503-236-7253.

Miracle Theatre Group’s 2009-2010 season includes:

Canta y no llores: El Día de los Muertos Festival

A Miracle MainStage original bilingual production

October 30, 2009-November 15, 2009

Every fall, the dead are commemorated in a lively show of dance, music and theatre in Portland’s longest-running Day of the Dead celebration. This year, los muertos return singing traditional tunes that harken back to another era when times were tough and tradition was one of the few things folks could call their own. Even as we shed one way of life for another, the spirit endures and we remember that the only thing to fear — in life or death — is fear itself.

American Sueño

Created by Dañel Malán and Rebecca Martínez

Directed by Rebecca Martínez

January 15-23, 2010

A Teatro Milagro original bilingual production

Hitchhiking down the interstate, heart on my sleeve.

Two years in a six by nine, waiting for a call from the outside.

Escaping from my past, living under a bridge.

Hiding behind my desk job, waiting for the call to run.

We are the outsiders — the homeless, the outcast, the gay, the immigrant — but we still dream “The American Dream” … everybody’s hope for a better job, a better life, a better tomorrow. Weaving together our real-life stories, American Sueño is our hopeful journey toward a new era of acceptance.

Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda

Written by Sabina Berman

February 12-March 6, 2010

A Miracle MainStage production presented in Spanish with subtitles in English at every performance

In this modern, romantic comedy, Gina wants more out of her casual relationship with Adrian, a liberal intellectual who's in it only for some good sex. Adrian shies away from any form of commitment — that is, until Gina takes up with a younger, sensitive lover. That’s when the spirit of Mexico’s most famous revolutionary rides again, appearing as Adrian’s macho conscience ready to do anything to win this battle of the sexes.

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

A play by Karen Zacarías based on the best-selling novel by Julia Alvarez

March 26-April 17, 2010

A Miracle MainStage production in English

Uprooted from their home in the Dominican Republic, the four García sisters arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures and extended family they had to leave. As they plunge headfirst into the freewheeling American mainstream with its dizzying choices and challenges, they remain forever caught between the old world and the new. What they have lost — and gained — is revealed in this vivacious story bursting with passion.

El Quijote

A Miracle MainStage bilingual adaptation of a play written by Santiago García, based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes

May 7-29, 2010

To see the world through the eyes of Don Quijote is to embrace life as the fullest adventure. From windmills to wenches, this knight-errant, in the company of his humble squire Sancho Panza, continues to roam the world and spark our imagination as he has for some four hundred years. This lusty adaptation of Cervantes’ classic — filled with a muscular theatricality — proves the power of imagination to overcome the vagaries of life.

Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8:00 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:00 p.m. Sundays at the Milagro Theatre (525 S.E. Stark St., Portland).

The Miracle Theatre Group has been dedicated to bringing the vibrancy of Latino theatre to the Northwest community and beyond for 25 years. In addition to its national tours, Miracle provides a home for Latino arts and culture at El Centro Milagro, where it enriches our local community with a variety of community outreach projects and educational programs designed to share the rich diversity of Latino culture. For more information about Miracle Theatre visit www.milagro.org or call 503-236-7253.

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