“Latin Standards” Returns to Brava in March by Popular Demand
“Elegantly structured and cleverly staged, it’s both touching and funny” San Francisco Examiner
“Gomez’s characterizations are impossible to resist.” San Francisco Chronicle”
“Vibrant….winning heart and humor. Critic’s pick!” — The New York Times
“She infuses her stories with such delicious details and character that you are transported. A fine 80 minutes.” Arizona Daily Star

After sold-out shows during its January 2018 run, Brava is pleased to present a return engagement of Marga Gomez’s “Latin Standards,” March 16th thru April 1st, 2018.

Written and performed by Marga Gomez and directed by David Schweizer, “Latin Standards” is the loving, funny and true story of perseverance and creative addiction passed down from immigrant father to lesbian daughter. Mixing nostalgia, social commentary and comic edge, Gomez portrays herself as a driven adult child of a blustery Cuban showman. As an impractical tribute to his memory, she defies reason and launches a hipster comedy night at “Esta Noche,” a doomed Mission district drag club, during the onset of San Francisco’s gentrification crisis. As the story unfolds Gomez muses “Esta Noche might smell like bleach and urinal cake now but I’ll just buy all the potpourri in town. Because my father taught me you have to spend money to make money!”

Between vivid portrayals of characters from 1960’s Manhattan to present day San Francisco, Gomez ponders the ballads (or Latin Standards) penned by her late father Willy Chevalier: a comedian/producer/entrepreneur and composer of dance tunes steeped in jealousy and obsession. The world premiere of “Latin Standards” took place Off-Broadway in January 2017 at The Public Theater’s “Under The Radar Festival.” The performance runs 85 minutes with no intermission.

March 16th thru April 1st in the cabaret at Brava, SF
(accessible by BART – 24th st. Mission stop)
RESERVE SOON. http://www.brava.org 9 shows only
Fridays, Saturdays 8pm Sundays 7pm
(this is 3 weeks but facebook events won’t let calendar extend past 3 weeks)