2024 - 2025 Season
October 1st - 5th, 2024
About the Festival
Pa'lante Theater is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual - Afro Latino Film Festival. is a film festival dedicated to highlighting the Black / Latine / Puerto Rican / Afro Caribbean cultures/communities throughout the world.
A multi-city tour films will highlight the lives of our diaspora.
October 17th - 27th, 2024
About the Show
“Broadway Of The Bronx: A Juan Man Show” is about Juan Angel, a Bronx street corner hustler and tour guide, educating gentrifiers on the neighborhood with the real facts about the history of his home, while discovering his longtime girlfriend is pregnant and now, he’s got to make some changes of his own.
November 14th - 24th, 2024
About the Show
“World Classic” is what happens when you take the quintessential American domestic drama away from white suburbia. It explores the identity issues created by assimilation through the eyes of two generations of an immigrant family. Like “The Humans” or “August Osage County” before it, it all takes place during one night, but unlike them, this play focus on those that had to sacrifice their homeland and in the process, compromise their heritage.
February 14th - 23rd, 2025
About the Show
FOXES follows Daniel, a young black man trying to keep up with his life, which is moving fast. When his relationship with best friend Leon brings an unexpected change it creates turmoil, bringing a taboo into his family home that has the power to tear the closest and most loving relationships apart.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, Dexter Flanders’s debut play Foxes explores masculinity and identity within London’s Caribbean community and Black street culture.
* U.S. Premiere!
March 13th - 16th, 2025
About the Festival
Pa'lante's new work festival is an exploration and celebration of exciting new voices in American Theater with Staged Reading Workshops, a Panel Discussion and Talk-Backs. The festival is the newest arm of Pa'lante's committment to the development of important new play/musicals.
April 10th - 20th, 2025
About the Show
Francesca has been proposed to by Juan, but she’s unsure of his true commitment. Francesca decides to use a grad school film exercise as an excuse to meet his exes and find out everything there is know about her prospective fiancé. In doing so, she uses the audiences as a sounding board to gain insight.
May 15th - 23rd, 2025
About the Show
30-something Danny visits the local kids’ playground —super cute baby in tow— and engages in hilarious banter and park bench philosophizing with another parent. The conversation is peppered by wild asides with Daniel’s superlative and musical alter egos, MC Plátano and the Beatboxer.
June 6th - 15th, 2025
About the Show
Combining the magical realistic influences of Latin American literature with the Western genre popularized in the twentieth century, “Misfit, America” follows a diverse community led by an interracial couple as they are forced to protect a Native American teen from a brotherhood of supremacists. But before they can fight, they must become at peace with their past and learn to trust the future on each other. Living on the outskirts of the last free place in America, this band of misfits must prepare to give it all or run