Recommended by Tita Anntares

  • Santos & Santos
    29 Sep. 2023
    ...Part 2. In SANTOS & SANTOS, Octavio Solis takes us on this journey - sometimes warm, loving, sensual journey, sometimes funny , sometimes brutal – smoothly merging dramatized interactions with the returning son’s comments on the action while it happens and moments when he breaks in the fourth wall to tell us his story. Cultural chasms heighten the crisis between Mexican-Americans who have melted well into American society vs. family members who could not or would not. Premiered in 1990s, one brother confronted with family corruption provides Texas-style challenges that children of high placed politicians/media moguls face today.
  • Santos & Santos
    29 Sep. 2023
    Part 1. What if the son or daughter of a corrupt family businesses in today’s news is also a high integrity lawyer? In his drama SANTOS& SANTOS, Octavio Solis plunges us into a powerful sometimes shocking story of Mike, who left home to build successful legal career, returns home to use his skills to help family turn his late father’s business into a profitable operation. When Mike’s brothers, friends joyfully share their illegal revenue-producing strategies, Mike must choose between the law, the loved ones he left behind – and, unexpectedly, hidden corruption of people above them all..
  • FUKT
    11 Nov. 2022
    FUKT closes in NYC 11-13-22! Streaming ends soon. Your chance to bear witness to the struggle to break free from raw or blocked memories of abuse - profound and sometimes surprisingly hilarious (and never melodramatic), as three selves -child, young woman, and wife/mother- battle their way through conflicting truths to find the courage to tell without shame what happened and accept in order to live life, not stay trapped in the pain. Written with courageous awareness of the damaging impact of sexual abuse by a trusted parent -and an even more courageous determination to reclaim one's own life.
  • The Triumphant
    31 May. 2021
    Kareem Fahmy has written an amazing play that riffs off Sinbad stories. Four men in a 21st Century Egyptian prison for gay men, fearing torture or execution - each time their fears and mutual conflicts become unbearable, they burst into storytelling to survive the terror, physically and imaginatively re-enacting scenes from the Sinbad stories, then subside back to their reality. A May 24 NY Times article by Salman Rushdie about stories reminded me of seeing this powerful play in Brooklyn.