2024-2025 SEASON

Two young storytellers, with the help of an ensemble of actors, take the stage and begin to weave the tale of Esperanza — a wealthy Mexican girl whose privileged existence is shattered when tragedy strikes, and she and her mother must flee to California. Forced to work in a migrant labor camp, Esperanza must learn to rise above her difficult circumstances and discover what she's truly made of. Set in the turbulent 1930s, and based on the popular book by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising is a poetic tale of a young girl's triumph over adversity.

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By Finegan Kruckemeyer

"Some kids, they can only read so many stories... before they decide they wanna make their own.” In a Gothamesque city, where the shadows are long and the deals are shady, four kids face off against something a whole lot bigger than four kids. An homage to the great noir detective stories, The Great Ignored sees child-sized protagonists left to clean up an adult-sized town.