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August 16, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Midwest Premiere of
BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER
BY LUIS ALFARO OPENS THIS SEPTEMBER

To celebrate fifteen-years of theatre in Chicago, Teatro Vista…Theatre With A View presents the Midwest Premiere of Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (BLD) by Luis Alfaro and directed by Sandra Márquez at the Chopin Theater. The play is about two sisters Minerva and Alice hungering to fill the voids in their lives with food and sex. Director Sandra Márquez says, “BLD is a beautiful, wacky, funny and moving play about wanting and trying to fill the voids in our lives--usually not so successfully. I love it because it's kind of out there, but very true all at the same time. I think it's got characters that we can all look at and say, "I've been that person before.” The cast features Teatro Vista ensemble members Tony Sancho, Joe Minoso Sandra Delgado with Diana Campos.

Director Sandra Márquez was recently seen last spring in the Jeff Recommended play Living Out by Lisa Loomer. She currently serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Teatro Vista. Most recently she was in the Goodman Theatre production of Mariela in the Desert. Last fall she was in the Steppenwolf Theater production of One Arm and just prior to that she played Sor Juana in the Teatro Vista production of The Sins of Sor Juana. She is also the recipient of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum’s Sor Juana Award. Other credits include Anna in the Tropics at Victory Gardens and Electricidad at the Goodman. In addition to theater she has worked on national commercials, industrial films. Film credits include: "Mama Said", "Southside", "Blank Verse", "Once Upon a Time in the Hood" and "Boriqua". She is an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University, where she teaches in the School of Speech and Drama.

Acclaimed playwright, Luis Alfaro is the recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship. He is a writer/performer who works in theater, performance art, poetry and journalism. He is the first playwright to receive two Kennedy Center Fund For New American Plays awards in the same year (2002). His plays include Straight as a Line; Black Butterfly, Jaguar Girl, Piñata Woman and Other Super Hero Girls, Like Me: Body of Faith; Bitter Homes and Gardens; Hero; and LadyBird. He is the director of new play development at the Mark Taper Forum Theater in Los Angeles, where he develops and produces new American plays.

Teatro Vista… Theatre with a View is firmly committed to sharing and celebrating the riches of Latino culture with all Chicago theater audiences. This commitment stems from the belief that there are as many similarities as there are differences, and that perhaps the answer to breaking down the walls of prejudice and stereotype lies in understanding these differences. Ultimately, it is through this "view" that Teatro Vista intends to bridge the gap between Latino and non-Latino cultures in Chicago. Teatro Vista is the only Equity theatre company in the Midwest.

Previews begin just in time for Hispanic Heritage month beginning Sept. 16-18. The play officially opens September 19-October 16, 2005. All performances held at Chopin Theater,
1543 W. Division, Chicago, IL 60622. Tickets are $22, group rates available. Tickets can be purchased at the door or for reservations call 312-494-5767 or For more info. on Teatro Vista log on to www.teatrovista.org