Flamboyán's debut play reading event is broken up into two nights. On March 5, we will showcase the comedic works of two Puerto Rican writers, Jon Marcantoni and Alberto Medina, as well as the jukebox musical about the life of La Lupe by Mexican-Puerto Rican author Alejandro Valtierra. Puro Estilo will receive a full production June 11-21, and Playa and Right of Admission will have a one night performance on June 8!

Alejandro Valtierra’s Puro Estilo will be produced in June 2025 and directed by Michael Castro.

This exciting bilingual blend of historical fiction and musical theater explores the life and legacy of La Lupe, the great Afro-Cuban singer whose career is as triumphant as it was tragic. The story takes place in a dimension of dreams in which her soul is trapped and where she is confronted by the gods of Santería, also known as orishas within the Afro-Caribbean religion that originated from the Yoruba of West Africa. The orishas love La Lupe but are conflicted by her call for their help due to frustration, confusion, and anger caused by the singer’s conversion to Christianity near the end of her life. Acceptance and forgiveness bind the orishas and La Lupe on a shared mission that is imbued with classics by the Queen of Latin Soul whose electrifying personality lives on in the experience of Puro Estilo.

Jon Marcantoni’s Playa Flamenco and Alberto Medina’s We Reserve the Right of Admission are short plays being workshopped for the first time.

Jon Marcantoni’s Playa Flamenco is a romantic comedy set over a 12 hour period, as two visitors to Puerto Rico’s famed Playa Flamenco, on the island of Culebra, have a chance encounter that deepens as the hours pass, day turns into night, and they must decide if the day will be a beautiful memory or the beginning of a lifelong love.

Alberto Medina’s We Reserve the Right of Admission is a biting satire chronicling the 126 year (and counting) occupation of Puerto Rico by the United States. A man representing the Pro-Statehood movement visits Washington from the 1890s to the 2020s demanding that the US annex the territory, but he is prevented from speaking to “The Man in Charge” by a secretary, who teases the Statehood Movement with empty promises and patronizing counter-offers. As the decades fly by and the world changes, will the Statehooder give up, or will he finally get his chance to move past the gatekeeper?

We are a performing arts theatre in Lakewood, Colorado, that focuses on uniting Puerto Ricans who share the love of music, poetry, theatre, and, most importantly, the place we call home, Puerto Rico.

Our home at The Three Leaches Theater in the 40 West Arts District hosts an art gallery, lounge, and 70 seat black box theatre that we envision as a home to Denver’s diverse communities and a hub for cultural celebration and exchange. While we celebrate our culture, we have a Pan-Latiné heart that wishes to celebrate our Latin American family.