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Learn to be Latina
Comedy finds
truth behind
pop culture
What would you do if you were
told that you need to stop being
how you are, looking how you look,
and loving how you love? Would
you agree?
Think again. Isn ’t that what we
hear every time we turn the TV on
or flip the pages of any m agazine?
"You have to look like th is!" "You
m ust do that!" We may not notice
anything odd about this until we
come across the smart, critical and
satirical portrait of this reality
fram ed in “Learn to be L atina” by
E n riq u e U ru e ta , p la y in g at
M ilagro Theatre.
The award-winning play takes an
outrageous look at many of the re
alities that we might like to ignore,
criticizing many of the stereotypes
that, as a society, we complacently
accept and even promote.
A talented troupe of actors, with
director Antonio Sonera, explore
some of the questions that the script
presents with lampoon and irony,
finding moments of truth that make
Learn to be Latina entertaining,
meaningful and the perfect closing
production for M ilagro’s 30th anni
versary season.
Learn to be L atina” opens
Thursday, May 1 at Milagro The
atre, 525 S.E. Stark St, with shows
continuing through May 30.
Tickets are $15 to $26 with dis
counts for students, seniors, groups
of 15 and more, and advance pur
chases. Visit milagro.org or call 503- Orion Bradshaw, Michelle Escobar, Olga Sanchez, Kelly Godell, M atthewKerriganinM tegro's'"
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Merle Haggard, a certified legend in the world of
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Tickets for the zoo ’ s 2014 sum m er concert series
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This y e ar’s series brings some fam iliar faces
back to the zoo. Hometown heroes Pink Martini will
close the series with two shows, Aug. 22-23. A fter
selling out the zoo last year, Huey Lewis and the
News are back (Aug. 13).
Trom bone Shorty brings his fiery Crescent City
funk back for the second year in a row (Aug. 16),
this time with reinforcem ents: his fellow New Or-
leans funksters Galactic. The always popular an<
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back through the zoo July 12, with Portland’s Salli«
Ford and her new band opening the show. And
really, are there more fam iliar faces than Pat Benatai
and Rick Springfield, who will be in town togethei
July 27?
The rest of the lineup fills out with all-tim e greats
and some contenders: a singer-songw riterly twofer
with Gavin DeGraw and M att N athanson (June 27),
new country sensation Rodney Atkins (July 10),
soul-folkster Amos Lee (July 17), indie chanteuse
Tori Amos (July 18), old-school soul man Charles
Bradley (July 25), alt-country original Lucinda W il
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