The Mother of Henry at The Los Angeles Theatre Center

In 1968, a year of watershed moments in the United States — the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, lunar space exploration and the Vietnam War — Connie, a single mother of five, gets a job at Sears in Boyle Heights. When Connie's son gets drafted and is sent to Vietnam, her mother makes her pray to La Virgen de Guadalupe for his protection. As Connie tries to remember how to pray, La Virgen appears to her and their friendship grows as she navigates work, love, war and her new independence. This Latino Theater Company production of Evelina Fernandez's The Mother of Henry comes to the Los Angeles Theatre Center. This show is in English but does contain some Spanish.