Brava presents
Latin Standards
New York Times 2017 "Critic's Pick!"
Written & Performed by MARGA GOMEZ
Directed by DAVID SCHWEIZER
This run of Latin Standards is SOLD OUT. However, encore performances have just been added, March 16 thru April 1. Tickets & info here.
Click HERE for press release and photos.
PERFORMANCE DATES / TIMES
Thursday, January 11, 8pm (preview)
Friday, January 12, 8pm (preview)
Saturday, January 13, 8pm (Opening Night & After Party)
Sunday, January 14, 5pm
Thursday, January 18, 8pm
Friday, January 19, 8pm
Saturday, January 20, 8pm
Sunday, January 21, 5pm
Thursday, January 25, 8pm
Friday, January 26, 8pm
Saturday, January 27, 8pm
Sunday, January 28, 5pm
90 minutes with no intermission
Marga's parents
In her 12th and final solo play Latin Standards Marga Gomez performs the loving, funny and true story of perseverance and creative addiction passed down from immigrant father to lesbian daughter. Mixing nostalgia, urgency, and comic edge, Gomez portrays herself as a driven adult child of a Cuban entertainer. Defying reason she attempts to produce a hipster comedy night at a struggling Latino drag queen club, Esta Noche, during the onset of San Francisco’s gentrification crisis. Between vivid portrayals of characters from 1960’s Manhattan to present day San Francisco, Gomez ponders the ballads (or Latin Standards) penned by her late father Willy Chevalier: a comedian/producer/entrepreneur and composer of dance tunes that reveled in jealousy and obsession.
Photo by Fabian Echevarria
Latin Standards premiered at the Public Theater’s "Under The Radar Festival" in 2017 and was also presented at The Los Angeles Theater Company's "Encuentro De Las Americas," Segerstrom Center For The Arts in Costa Mesa, Chicago's Urban Theater Company and most recently at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. Latin Standards was developed at Brava in 2016 and will be making it's official San Francisco premiere in January 2018.