Regional Premiere
Chris Rivera's
Back to You
January 12-20, 2024
...a show that is simple in its delivery, but unique and complex in all the right places... Well written, beautifully performed.
...a show that is simple in its delivery, but unique and complex in all the right places... Well written, beautifully performed.
The REGIONAL PREMIERE of Chris Rivera’s riveting play about navigating queer relationships in modern culture, told from a Latiné perspective. This play will be performed by the original developers from New York City. Tickets are on sale now!
Diego and Mateo, two Mexican-American teens have been lifelong friends in their small Texas Valley town. As they grow into young men, their bond deepens into something more than just friendship. Forced to grapple with their fear, shame, homophobia, and pressures of machismo culture, the pair grow up, grow closer, grow apart, and come back together again through the next fifteen years.
Back to You was named by theatre blog A Work Unfinishing as one of the best new works of 2022. It is now in development for a feature film.
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ABOUT CHRIS RIVERA
Chris Rivera is a NYC based actor, director, writer working in Film & Theatre. Career highlights include acting awards for Unhinged Production’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch and performing a multi-character track in Rivera’s self penned Our Own Odyssey at the Hispanic Federation’s FUERZAfest, having his first play produced by Lanford Wilson at the Albee Festival, and the Edinburgh festival remount of Rivera’s play Gender of Attraction.
PERFORMANCE DATES
Friday, January 12, 2024 @ 8 PM
Saturday, January 13, 2024 @ 2 PM (ASL Interpreter)
Saturday, January 13, 2024 @ 8 PM
Sunday, January 14, 2024 @ 2 PM
Thursday, January 18, 2024 @ 8 PM
Friday, January 19, 2024 @ 8 PM
Saturday, January 20, 2024 @ 2 PM (ASL Interpreter)
PERFORMANCE ADDRESS
Ground Floor Theatre
979 Springdale Rd
Austin, TX 78702
ABOUT AUSTIN RAINBOW THEATRE
Austin Rainbow Theatre is the new home for LGBTQIA+ performing arts in Central Texas. ART’s mission is to provide affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.
ART began its mission in 2021 with an exploratory production of The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project. This production was meant to gauge the necessity of an LGBTQIA+ theatre company and the response from the Central Texas community. After the outpouring of support from patrons, as well as the gratitude from members of the queer community, it was clear ART would be around for a long time!