Word on the Street
“They are particularly passionate about serving young people when they're beginning to explore issues of identity’, says Meda. Last year, they toured 19 cities in the United States and the United Kingdom, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. At colleges and universities, “we always get someone coming up to us and crying,” says Vega. “They can't believe that their story matters. That someone cares.”
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Latina Theater Troupe Makes Art of Identity
NBC NEWS Feature Story, May 2014
“But the overall energy and tone reminded me of ABC's ‘Happy Endings,’ including the memorable but far from helpful pep talks from Vega's mother and sisters: "When that man was born, his mother threw out the baby and raised the placenta," one proclaims. As with Teatro Luna's best efforts in the past, the show wears its Latina cultural specificity with an ease that is both rich and fully American.”
— Teatro Luna Comedy Just As Deliriously Messy As A Real Breakup by Nina Metz
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, March 2013
“Despite its humor, Machos goes beyond the lighthearted songs and stories of most revues. The complexity of its characters and tales creates the conflict in a piece that never truly comes to any conclusion about machismo. That in itself takes courage in our gender-war-torn times. Teatro Luna’s acts of emotional transformation are an answer of sorts to the vexed question of what men want. They may be the most any of us can do.”
— Girls Will Be Boys: Teatro Luna’s women take an imaginative leap into the land of machismo by Lara Molzhan
CHICAGO READER, November 2007
“We want to continue this space as an artist’s space for creation, as a space for teatro, as a space for women,” explained Malán-González. “So yes, we do theater but literally one of the most important things we do is just hold space for people: to learn, to create, to work through things.”
— All-female Latinx theater troupe moves into Boyle Heights by Valentina Guevara-Hernández
BOYLE HEIGHTS BEAT, November 2018
Whispers Heard ‘Round the Block