HERO PRESENTS
THE FUTURE CLASSICS READING SERIES
What is a classic?
Through our new staged reading series, Hero Theatre continues to examine what defines a classic. As we use classical works as a tool for social progress, what will the cannon look like in times ahead?
Don't miss this opportunity to attend this exciting reading series with live performances of some of your favorite theatre work.
Read more about the plays below....
TEA
by Velina Hasu Houston
Directed by Rebecca Wear
December 7, 2018
by Velina Hasu Houston
Directed by Rebecca Wear
December 7, 2018
Velina Hasu Houston
Join us for a reading of this beautiful play by award-winning, Los Angeles-based playwright Velina Hasu Houston. TEA sheds a light on the experiences of Japanese war brides living in the United States after WWII. After they experience a great loss, four war brides – Setsuko, Teruko, Atsuko, and Chizuye – gather to share tea. During the ceremony, the women reveal their hardships of leaving Japan for the United States. Featuring an all-female ensemble, TEA is an inspirational story of overcoming prejudice and hardship, and serves as a reminder of the struggles some of our fellows Americans face when coming to “the land of the free.”
Migdalia Cruz
“Something wicked this way comes.”
Shakespeare’s famous “Scottish play” is a story of ambition, greed, and guilt. When Macbeth encounters three witches who prophesize that he will someday be king, he – at the urging of his wife – risks safety and sanity to secure the crown.
Hero Theatre is proud to bring esteemed Puerto Rican playwright Migdalia Cruz’s modern verse translation of Macbeth to Los Angeles for the very first time. Cruz was one of 36 playwrights commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to create a modern-English translation of a Shakespearean play for the Play On! series, which was made possible by a generous donation from the Hitz Foundation.
SPRING and SUMMER 2019
Our Future Classics Reading Series continues...
THE FLOATING ISLAND PLAYS
by Eduardo Machado
Directed by Elisa Bocanegra
Join us for a special, two-day event as Hero Theatre brings to the stage Cuban playwright Eduardo Machado’s four-play cycle Floating Island. This dynamic tetralogy captures the story of four generations of a Cuban family, starting in the 1920s and ending during Fidel Castro’s regime. Titled “The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa,” “Fabiola,” “In the Eye of the Hurricane,” and “Broken Eggs,” these plays are seen as both family and political dramas, and offer wonderful insight into the Cuban/Cuba-American experience.
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BLADE TO THE HEAT
by Oliver Mayer
Directed by Elisa Bocanegra
Oliver Mayer
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THE HERO SONG CYCLE CABARET
Book by Julia Stier
Directed by Gabe Figueroa
What will future generations of musical theater lovers call "a classic”?
Gather around the piano for a fun-filled evening of music and memories. Featuring songs from shows that will have everyone from millennials to grandparents singing along, this cabaret will showcase the next round of musical theatre classics.