Cafe Vida at The Los Angeles Theatre Center

Cafe Vida

The Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring St. Los Angeles

Chabela and Luz are rival homegirls ready to leave the gang life and begin anew at Café Vida—the only place in the city that gives young women and their shady pasts a genuine second chance to start a new life free of violence. It's here that these former enemies choose la vida over la muerte as they learn to compost, tend a garden, julienne an onion, and rock your lunch order with a smile and a heaping side of transformation.

Thru - May 20, 2012

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Price: $20

Stage: Theatre 3

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 866-811-4111

www.thelatc.org

Cafe Vida Reviews

Average Rating based on 5 reviews

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LA Weekly - Recommended

"...Garcés' production is a kind of contemporary oratorio, well performed and peppered with songs and procession-like choreography, under Bruno Louchouarn's musical direction. Felipe Nieto is terrific as an energetic young ward of the mission with sex on the brain. The world-weary style in which both Chabela and Luz brush off his sexual innuendos fuels both the play's humor and its authenticity."

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- Steven Leigh Morris

Backstage - Recommended

"...Written by Lisa Loomer and created in partnership with Homeboy Industries and Homegirl Café, "Café Vida" is bursting with the kind of truth, humor, and pain that can only come from a collaboration such as this. It's a satisfying and often surprising offering. It's what Cornerstone does best."

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- Jennie Webb

LAist - Recommended

"...The gifts of Café Vida lie not in its script or writing style, but in the performers presenting the play. The non-professional cast culled from Homeboy Industries lends not only their own personal stories and experiences to the script, but brings passion to their stage performances that is easy to appreciate and root for. Their line delivery may not be perfect or of professional caliber, but it is indeed heartfelt and comes from a place of knowing, intuition, and love."

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- Mia Bonadonna

LA Stage Times - Recommended

"...Regardless of what you think about this brief interruption, the production as a whole coheres persuasively, as directed by Cornerstone artistic director Michael John Garcés. I missed 3 Truths in 2010, but otherwise I think I've seen all of Cornerstone's major productions since Garcés took the helm of the company six years ago, and this is the best."

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- Don Shirley

Opening the Curtain - Recommended

"...More important, however, is that there are no low points, as the story remains interesting, if not surprising, from start to finish. Also, Loomer's script has positive messages, while making it clear that there are no easy answers to changing one's life."

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- Jeff Favre

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Cafe Vida Reviews

LA Weekly - Recommended

Backstage - Recommended

LAist - Recommended

LA Stage Times - Recommended

Opening the Curtain - Recommended

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