Ghost Waltz
Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 08:00pm
Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 South Spring Street
Latino Theater Co.
The World Premiere of
GHOST WALTZ
by Oliver Mayer
Directed by Alberto Barboza
Developed in Latino Theater Company’s Circle of Imaginistas playwriting group, this new play is a boldly original recovery of Juventino Rosas, one of Mexico’s most significant composers — an Indigenous musician whose life story has gone untold and whose works have been attributed to Europeans. Following Rosas from his father’s early death to his friendship with ragtime genius Scott Joplin. It’s a mixe of music, magic, drama, passion, spirituality and dance in a celebration that explores the lives of people of color during the emerging Americas of the late 19th century and their ghostlike impact on our own lives today.
