Denver’s Chicano theater company, Su Teatro, opens its 40th season with artistic director Tony Garcia’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Enrique’s Journey,” which recounts the harrowing odyssey of a Honduran boy trying to reunite with his mother in the United States.
The book’s celebrated author, Sonia Nazario, will also be on the Auraria campus next week as Metro State’s 2011 Richard T. Castro Distinguished Visiting Professor.
She’ll deliver the keynote address at an 11 a.m. Wednesday luncheon at St. Cajetan’s Center; and lead a 2 p.m. Thursday panel discussion with area journalists at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th St. Info: 303-556-3124.
The play will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays (plus 3 p.m. Oct. 30) at the former Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive (303-296-0219 or ). John Moore
