Barrio Grrrl! February 19, 2011

The Kennedy Center’s Theatre for Young Audiences is known for crafting quality, entertaining and enlightening theatre for young and old alike. Barrio Grrrl is the multi-cultural musical about 9-year-old Ana whose mother is deployed in Iraq. Ana is faced with a very big decision: On the one hand, as her alter-ego Barrio Grrrl, she's pretty busy preserving justice in the barrio and protecting her neighborhood. But in the real world where Ana misses her mother and cares for her grandfather, reality is sneaking up on her. It's time for Ana to decide what's most important: being a superhero or a girl who works miracles in real life. Written by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony nominee Quiara Alegría Hudes (In the Heights).

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