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SOUL SACRIFICE

Monday, June 1st, 2026

A 9-year-old Mexican American begins her journey towards adulthood in Boyle Heights circa 1970 in Consuelo G. Flores’s powerful autobiographical family drama Soul Sacrifice, a solid CASA 0101 World Premiere production that would be even better with a child actress in its leading role.
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THE PRINCE OF EGYPT

Monday, November 24th, 2025


Casa 0101 provides proof positive that last year’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame was no fluke, the Boyle Heights theater company returning this holiday season with their impressively staged and performed take on Stephen Schwartz, Philip LaZebnik, and The Book of Exodus’s The Prince Of Egypt.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Saturday, November 23rd, 2024


CASA 0101 triumphs like never before with the musical stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame in a production that more than holds its own against L.A.’s most prestigious 99-seat theaters.
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REMEMBERING BOYLE HEIGHTS: PART 2

Sunday, November 27th, 2022


Casa 0101 Theater’s Remembering Boyle Heights: Part 2 continues playwrights Josefina López and Corky Dominguez’s eye-opening look at events that helped shape the L.A. neighborhood’s identity as a center of Chicano-American culture.
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ARENA: A House MUSIC-al

Sunday, June 26th, 2022

A young gay Latino exits the closet to a ‘90s dance club beat in Abel Alvarado’s ARENA: A House MUSIC-al, a heartfelt but overpopulated coming-of-age story that works best when the spotlight is on Alvarado stand-in Lucio, particularly as brought to engaging, charismatic life by newcomer Preston Gonzalez Valle.
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MASAO AND THE BRONZE NIGHTINGALE

Monday, May 2nd, 2022

Playwrights Dan Kwong and Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara have quite a tale to tell about post-WWII Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights in Masao And The Bronze Nightingale and an ethnically, culturally, linguistically diverse cast of characters to tell it with, but the World Premiere play-with-songs’ hefty three-hour running time begs the question, how much of a good thing is too much?
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REMEMBERING BOYLE HEIGHTS

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, its past, its present, and the challenges it faces in the future, make for an eye-opening theatrical experience in Casa 0101’s World Premiere docudrama Remembering Boyle Heights.
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DISNEY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Sunday, December 10th, 2017

Some stellar lead performances and groundbreaking diversity in casting are the two best reasons to catch CASA 0101, TNY Productions, and El Centro Del Pueblo’s 99-seat staging of Disney Beauty And The Beast even without a key factor in the original Broadway production’s 5461-performance run, a production design sumptuous enough to inspire oohs and aahs.
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