Thu 5/30-Sat 6/15
The next production from Cleveland’s LatinUs Hispanic theater is called La Botánica. It was written by Cuban/American playwriter Dolores Prida about a Puerto Rican family in New York City. Her bio says that although she was born in Cuba she was steeped in Puerto Rican culture after moving to New York.
But the cultural conflicts around which her play revolves are common to many immigrant cultures, as each subsequent generation becomes more American-ized and moves away from the customs of the “Old Country.” The central characters are an elderly woman who runs a shop specializing in herbs, spells and other spiritualist products, her daughter, and her granddaughter, an assimilated Ivy League graduate who plans to go into finance and not run her grandmother’s shop as expected.
Kivin Bauzo directs LatinUs’s production, which opens Thursday May 30 and runs through Sunday June 15 at LatinUs Theater at the Pivot Center for Art, Dance and Expression. Get tickets and more information here.
2937 W 25th St, Cleveland, OH 44113
2937 W 25th St, Cleveland, OH 44113