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Borderlands Theater Living Out
Here is a heart touching comedy that will make you laugh as well as remind you of the fact that every human has same emotions for their children. Book your tickets on-line so as to get those hard to get ticket at attractive rates and in no time loss.
Borderlands Theater was founded in 1986 by a board and small staff with experience in community based theater. It was a community based "activist" theater that focused on the Chicano movement during the Civil Rights era. Contacts from this period, including those of TENAZ, still serve us. Learned from this period was a need to carry on with a collaborative approach to programming and operations, support programs with NGOs and others, and finally to support emerging playwrights and young artists. Chicano programming was and is central to our work, which started with three plays/programs annually and then grew to six by 1997.
A 12-member board of directors and a staff representing Tucson demographics oversee programming and administration. Since 2002, a special training program with National Arts Stabilization has mentored the company. This unique opportunity is supported by Arizona Arts Shares, a program of the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Focusing on long range planning NAS will provide for long-term survival, bridging Borderlands traditional artistic and managerial policies with policies and processes of mainstream theaters. It will also guide the theater to prepare for founder transition. Barclay Goldsmith, founding director of Borderlands, and currently its producing director, has been with the company 20 years.
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Show Biography - Borderlands Theater Living Out
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 In 1990, the company moved from its original venue at Teatro Carmen, a historic performing arts space downtown. Since 1990, the theater performed many times in the state of the art facilities at Pima Community College where Goldsmith was on the faculty until his retirement in 2000. Borderlands continues to use this facility and other venues as well. Administrative offices are in the Centro Cultural de Las Americas in Tucson's Historic Downtown area. The theater hopes, by 2005, to become an anchor tenant in the re-modeled Tucson Center for the Performing arts, a turn of the century church that has been converted into a performing arts space, also in the historic downtown area.
Living Out is written by Lisa Loomer. It is a heart touching, funny and insightful comedy. The story is about an L.A. power couple-Nancy and Richard who hire a Salvadoran nanny, Ana. On the personal side of Ana, she has an undocumented husband and children of her own: a child in El Salvado, and-a fact she's learned to hide from employers-one in L.A. Slowly the half-truths and evasions pile up, until both couples find out what sets them apart- class, race and geography- but also what they have in common: the love of their children. Award-winning playwright Lisa Loomer's Living Out has received rave reviews in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Minneapolis. Some of the famous reviews are following:
Spotlight on Borderlands
By Chuck Graham
"Borderlands is the theater of the future because of the way they work to involve the community in their productions," NPR reporter Neda Ulaby said. She spent three days in Tucson last month talking to Borderlands' staff. "Their ability to get a penny and turn it into a dollar is amazing. Where someone like the Goodman Theater in Chicago would have a couple of MBAs on staff to raise money, Borderlands has one person, Alida Wilson-Gunn."
Arizona Daily Star – Accent
Kathleen Allen
"Don't delay. Pick up the phone right now and call Borderlands Theater and order tickets for "Living Out". The Lisa Loomer play, which opened last weekend, ends Sunday, and this is one production that shouldn't be missed. It has a script that's compelling and well written. It has direction by Eva Tessler that's smart, funny, and visual. And it's got some of the best acting seen on Tucson stages this season…
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For more information , enjoy the official homepage of Borderlands Theater Living Out
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