{"id":210382,"date":"2026-03-18T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/210382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:28:11","slug":"playwright-amalia-ortizs-miraculous-mixes-of-dj-santa-cecilia-opens-this-week-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/210382\/","title":{"rendered":"Playwright Amalia Ortiz’s Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia opens this week in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmaliaAmalia Ortiz\u2019s latest play is steeped in magical realism and rave culture. Credit: Hector Hugo Garza<\/p>\n

In a peculiar twist on the trope of magical realism popularized by visionaries such as Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, award-winning poet, performer and playwright Amalia Ortiz this week and the next will bring us her latest opus, presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center.<\/p>\n

The play The Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia offers a quixotic tale of 1990s U.S. rave culture. The production follows a mute, queer undocumented immigrant\u2019s disappearance and subsequent transformation from homeless outcast into a shamanic DJ who leads clandestine underground rituals.<\/p>\n

The story depicts a journey from disavowed to revered among people who share the same culture and social stigmas, both illusory and practical. <\/p>\n

$15, Thursday-Saturday, March 19-21, and Thursday-Saturday, March 26-28, SAY S\u00ed Black Box Studio, 1310 S. Brazos St., (210) 271-3151 ext. 250, guadalupeculturalarts.org.<\/p>\n

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