Miracle Theatre Adds Performance To CANTA Y NO LLORES 11/15
By: Gabrielle Sierra Nov. 03, 2009
Miracle Theatre Group announces additional performance of its Day of the Dead celebration
Due to popular demand, Miracle Theatre Group is pleased to offer an additional performance of CANTA Y NO LLORES, this year's celebration of the Day of the Dead. The newly scheduled performance - the final presentation in a record-breaking run - begins at 7:00 p.m., Sunday, November 15, 2009 at the Milagro Theatre (525 SE Stark St., Portland). Tickets are $22 ($16 for students/senior citizens) from www.milagro.org, 503-236-7253 or the community box office at the Hollywood Theatre daily 1-9 p.m.
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 old-time tunes that harken back to another era when times were tough and tradition was one of the few things folks could call their own. In the middle of the Great Depression, at a camp near where WPA workers are constructing Oregon's Timberline Lodge, five strangers arrive from different parts of the country in search of work and a place to call home. Even as they must shed one way of life for another, and though they have lost everything they hold dear, optimism lives on. Funny and irreverent, Canta y no llores (Sing and Don't Cry) reminds us all that the only thing to fear - in life or death - is fear itself.
The Miracle Theatre Group has been dedicated to bringing the vibrancy of Latino theatre to the Northwest community and beyond for more than 25 years. In addition to its national tours, Miracle provides a home for Spanish and Latin American arts and culture at El Centro Milagro, where it enriches the local community with a variety of community outreach projects and educational programs designed to share the diversity of Latino culture. For more information about the Miracle Theatre Group, visit www.milagro.org or call 503-236-7253.
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