The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon at The Los Angeles Theatre Center

The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon

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

Inspired by true events, this powerful and poetically stirring drama addresses the relentless violation of human rights against journalists who strive to report the truth. All performances feature Spanish supertitles.

Thru - May 25, 2025

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 4:00pm

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 866-811-4111

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The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon Reviews

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Night Tinted Glasses - Highly Recommended

"...Ultimately, this play chronicles not just a seriously wounded woman clawing back to her own memories, her own self (on so many levels) but re-discovering and even re-defining her relationship with Rodrigo--including why she is here, in a private home, rather than a professional health facility."

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- Zahir Blue

Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

"...The Delicate Tears of The Waning Moon is just as heart wrenching as it is timely. Inspired by true events and written by Venezuelan playwright, actress and human rights advocate Rebeca Aleman, it sheds light on the violence against journalists aiming report events accurately. Paulina (Aleman) is a journalist who has recently emerged from a coma due to a brutal attack as a result of her journalism and her desire to report the full truth."

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- Julyza Commodore

Peoples World - Recommended

"...Aside from the timely issue of recovering the truth that only she knows, the play is a vivid display of the process of rebuilding memory after a traumatic loss, patiently reconnecting severed synapses in the brain through the magic of plasticity. Paulina graduates to recognizing her own name, her family members? names, identifying famous paintings and individuals in photographs, remembering certain Nahua words she had been learning, all the way up to recalling the story she was working on before the attack. Recall of the Nahua word ?metzli? for ?moon? lends itself to the title of the play."

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- Eric A. Gordon

Larchmont Buzz - Highly Recommended

"...In a rich and impressive spring season, the Latino Theater Company brings back a powerful and sadly still timely two-person show, The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon. A remarkable writing and especially acting tour de force by Rebeca Aleman, the play is a passionate expose of the assault on free speech in Latin America, and a personal story."

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- Laura Foti Cohen

Nerds Of Color - Highly Recommended

"...The sheer relevance and poetry of this play is so startling and spellbindingly beautiful that it haunts me as I can't help but think of Palestine whose humanity is constantly being denied as we speak, where more journalists have been killed than in World War I and World War II combined. I am reminded that all struggle is interconnected and this piece has struck me at the core of how connected it all is."

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- Edward Hong

The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon at The Los Angeles Theatre Center