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TEATRO SALON TABLE READING SERIES AT THE LATINO BOOKSTORE (1300 GUADALUPE)
August 8, 2026 & August 15, 2026| 2 PM

🎭 Experience new works in the making!

Join the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center for the 2026 Teatro Salón Table Readers Series—two afternoons of powerful storytelling, live readings, and conversation with the artists behind the work.

📅 Aug 8 & 15 | ⏰ 2 PM
📍 Guadalupe Latino Bookstore
🎟 FREE + post-reading Q&A

Don’t miss these bold new voices from South Texas.
Learn more: guadalupeculturalarts.org.

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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS 

If I Could Turn Back Time by Gerry Rodriguez

Date & Time: Saturday, August 8, 2026, at 2:00 PM

Directed by: Marisela Barrera

 

Synopsis: After the sudden death of their sister, Julio returns to their family home in the South Texas borderlands for the funeral. Once there, Julio must navigate grief while confronting an estranged family that disapproves of their involvement in the drag community. Encouraged by their late sister’s spirit, Julio summons strength by stepping into their drag persona, Sharona, for the remainder of the visit. As Sharona, she builds unexpected connections, heals old wounds, and finds a way to let go of past pain while accepting her sister’s passing.

 

About the Playwright: Gerry Rodriguez is a poet and playwright from Mission, Texas, holding an MFA in Creative Writing from UTRGV. She teaches college-level English Composition and Rhetoric, serves as the founder and Artistic Director of the Rio Grande Valley Playwrights Circle, and is VP of Operations for Palabrandar Theatre Company.

 

About the Director: Marisela Barrera (BFA, MA, MFA) is an award-winning Tejana teatrista—writer, actor, stage director, cultural activist, and border goth storyteller whose genre-bending work bridges the Tex-Mex frontera, the classroom, and radical Chicana/Latina arts spaces.

 

 

 

Welcome to the Neighborhood by Marissa Castañón-Hernández

Date & Time: Saturday, August 15, 2026, at 2:00 PM

Directed by: Clint Taylor

 

Synopsis: Set in a suburban Texas community, Welcome to the Neighborhood explores the mounting tensions among neighbors as personal beliefs collide with contemporary social and political divisions. When a conflict escalates to a dangerous breaking point, the Virgen de Guadalupe appears in a miraculous moment. In the aftermath, as the community awaits her return, the neighbors begin to confront their differences and discover a shared capacity for forgiveness, understanding, and acceptance.

 

About the Playwright: Marissa Castañón-Hernández is an Austin-based educator, writer, and award-winning playwright whose work—featured in the Austin American-Statesman and on stages from Repertorio Español to the Vortex Theatre—champions educational justice and amplifies the voices of historically marginalized communities.

 

About the Director: Clint George Taylor is the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s Theater Arts Program Assistant and a multifaceted San Antonio-based artist, educator, and community leader, active with Jump-Start Performance Co. and co-creator of Better Butter the Show, using performance, writing, and production to champion arts education and marginalized voices.

 

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CARMEN FROM MEXICO

TICKETS FOR CARMEN FROM MEXICO NOW ON SALE!
The Guadalupe Theater will be limiting capacity at 60%, masks are strongly encouraged, hand sanitization stations will be available, and please note entry will take a bit longer than usual as we will be administering temperature checks.
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s Teatro Salon proudly presents the World Premiere of the original solo performance of ‘Carmen From Mexico’ featuring Anna De Luna and directed by Jorge Piña. Scheduled for August 13th & 14th, 2021, Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St., San Antonio, TX 78207. Curtain is at 8pm with a general admission of $10.00.
Carmen From Mexico is an original solo multimedia play with live musical accompaniment that reflects the playwright’s own personal family history of her mother’s “illegal” immigration from Mexico to South Texas. Playwright Anna De Luna portrays her mother Carmen (in several stages of her youth) in this powerful true story of survival, struggle and yet sometimes comical experiences of adapting to South Texas racism and prejudices.  
Anna De Luna has performed in various leading roles at the Guadalupe Theater and Jump-Start Performance Company.  She also appeared at the Public Theater in Anna In The Tropics for which she received a San Antonio Globe Award for Best Actress.  She has produced her original, solo plays Chicana Atheist, The AIDS Lady and My Arab Fall with sustaining success.  In 2016 Ms. De Luna was selected Creative of the Month by the City of San Antonio Department for Culture and Creative Development.  Carmen from Mexico was first presented as a short 20-minute work-in-progress at the Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival in 2018 and at Jump-Start Performance Company in 2019. 
PURCHASE TICKETS FOR AUGUST 13, 2021
PURCHASE TICKETS FOR AUGUST 14, 2021

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