I’m a sucker for festivals. There’s something about seeing one narrative after another after another. For me, it’s not just about losing yourself in the stories, it’s about what it does to time and the people with you. In a perfect world, you enter in the daylight and come out, hours later, in the dark. If you’re lucky enough to go in with the same people, you exit bonded even if you’ve never spoken a word. You’ve gone on a journey together. At the end of October, the Latino Theatre Company is presenting Encuentro 2024: We Are Here – Presente! — a three-week festival of Latiné theater from across the US and Puerto Rico. Nineteen different theater companies are performing work in Spanish and in English. Almost all shows have either English or Spanish supertitles (depending on the language of the performance). The sweet spot is either the Thursday night shows (which are all $10) or, my pick, the weekends when you can show up at 2 PM and see shows at 2:00, 4:00, 5:30, and 8:00 PM (just enough time to sneak across the street to Guisado’s and grab some tacos and a beer for dinner). LATC, where the festival takes place downtown, has always been the perfect festival venue with its four theaters and its giant, old bank lobby. You can check out info on the nineteen companies performing here and take a look at the schedule here. Grab some friends or make some new ones, commit to a whole day and lose yourself in the theater. Encuentro 2024: We Are Here – Presente! runs from October 24th through November 10th at LATC in downtown Los Angeles. This is Anthony Byrnes Opening the Curtain on LA Theater for KCRW.

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