Alma at Central Square Theater

Alma

Central Square Theater
450 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge

2016. Alma and her daughter, Angel, made wishes long ago, among them good health, carne asada, and perfect SAT scores to earn a spot at UC Davis. However, Angel, now 17 and on the eve of that important test, has a different vision of the future. With Alma, the winner of the National Latinx Playwriting Award, Benjamin Benne has crafted a poetic and humorous warm embrace asking the question: Who does the American Dream belong to?

Thru - Mar 26, 2023

Wednesdays: 7:30pm

Thursdays: 7:30pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 3:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 617-576-9278

www.centralsquaretheater.org

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Alma Reviews

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The Boston Globe - Recommended

"...To be clear, there is much to admire and moments of considerable power in “Alma,” directed at Central Square Theater by Elena Velasco. The director has devised a haunting visual finale to the production, while playwright Benne has given faces and voices to a subject, immigration, that is too often reduced to numbers and partisan political disputes."

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- Don Aucoin

New England Theater Mirror - Recommended

"...Beleno Carney and Lopez have a wonderful, credible chemistry that rollicks between fierce anger and fiercer love. Beleno Carney wears her affection for Angel openly; she can’t hide her admiration and wonder for her daughter. Lopez does a terrific job as someone whose bravado and bluster hide her very deep attachment. Under Velasco’s taut direction, the action never stops. While sometimes the script is heavy-handed on the symbolism – i.e. Alma has a dream where elephants won’t let her pass – it does drive home the fact that Alma and Angel are in a precarious state of limbo from which there is no satisfactory solution."

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- Michael Hoban

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