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The full cast and creative team have been set for <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/american-televisions" target="_blank">american (tele)visions</a>, the first show in <a href="https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/new-york-theatre-workshop" target="_blank">New York Theatre Workshop</a>'s Off-Broadway season. Performances run from September 9 to October 16, with opening night on September 29.The cast includes&nbsp;Clew, Raúl Castillo, Ryan J. Haddad, Elia Monte-Brown, and Bianca "b" Norwood. The creative team includes&nbsp;scenic and costume designer Bretta Gerecke; specialty costume designer Mondo Guerra; lighting designer Jeanette Yew; technology designers Justin Nestor, Alex Hawthorn, and Kelly Colburn;&nbsp;fight director J. David Brimmer; intimacy director Andy Arden-Reese; and voice and text coach Dawn-Elin Fraser.american (tele)visions&nbsp;tells the story of an undocumented Mexican family, but as a multiversal tale in which the characters move through time, TV screens, store aisles, and video games, real and imaginary. The main character is Erica, who shares this story as a memory play — a play in which a character looks back on past events that come to life on stage — while walking through a Walmart. The show is by&nbsp;Victor I. Cazares, and&nbsp;Rubén Polendo directs.Check back for information on&nbsp;american (tele)visions&nbsp;tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

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Victor I. Cazares, a New York Theatre Workshop playwright in residence, presents their play&nbsp;american (tele)visions&nbsp;as part of the 2022-23 Off-Broadway season. Get on&nbsp;american (tele)visions&nbsp;tickets on New York Theatre Guide today.american (tele)visions&nbsp;is a play about the American Dream; its dark flip side, the American nightmare; and one family who experiences the collision between the two firsthand. They are a family of undocumented Mexican immigrants, and their story is told by Erica, the audience's "Hero of Ages Lost" and narrator, as she strolls the aisles of a Walmart in the '90s. The show is a memory play, in which the tales of the Mexican family on stage are Erica's memories brought to life, but it's also a multimedia experience.The show combines traditional live performance with pre-recorded video and live feeds of the actors. Cazares has written a technology-saturated multiverse filled with real and imagined televisons, video games, and store aisles that go on forever, bending time and space as past memories meet Erica's present.american (tele)visions&nbsp;is Cazares's second production at New York Theatre Workshop; their play&nbsp;Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall&nbsp;went up virtually in 2020. Three of their works,&nbsp;Ramses contra los&nbsp;monstruos,&nbsp;We Were Eight Years in Powder,&nbsp;and&nbsp;«when we write with ashes», also went up in 2021 with National Queer Theater and Lincoln Center's Restart Stages program of in-person summer arts events.The world premiere of&nbsp;american (tele)visions&nbsp;in New York is a co-production with Theater Mitu. The play's director,&nbsp;Rubén Polendo, has been founding artistic director there for more than 20 years.&nbsp;Polendo and&nbsp;Theater Mitu's work has been produced nationwide at dozens of venues including The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center.Tickets to&nbsp;american (tele)visions&nbsp;will be available on New York Theatre Guide soon.

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Victor I. Cazares kicks off New York Theatre Workshop's season with *american (tele)visions* off Broadway. Get *american (tele)visions* tickets on TodayTix.

The *american (tele)visions* play follows an undocumented Mexican family living, as Cazares once put it in an interview, "in the shadow of the first Walmart in the universe." The show takes place in the 1990s, a few decades later than Walmart was actually founded, but time is fluid in *american (tele)visions*. With technology, live acting, and a plot that bends reality and space, this new play, narrated by a shopper named Erica, tells how one family's American Dream becomes an American nightmare.

Cazares is a queer, Indigenous Mexican playwright whose shows focus on the immigrant and queer experience. This play had an early reading in 2018 at the Austin Latino New Play Festival. New York Theatre Workshop intended to produce *american (tele)visions* off Broadway in 2020, but postponed the premiere amid the pandemic.

*american (tele)visions* is a co-production between NYTW and Theater Mitu, a company that produces experimental theatre, or shows that play with nontraditional design, media, and ways of storytelling besides a linear plot. The founding artistic director of Theater Mitu, Rubén Polendo, directs *american (tele)visions* in New York.

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## What to Watch For

- *american (tele)visions* is a multimedia show. In addition to live performance, the show includes pre-recorded and live video that the characters move through.
- Cazares's plays often explore capitalism and commercialism. *american (tele)visions* evokes this with a shopping cart in a '90s Walmart, and another of their plays, *Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall*, is about a financial advisor to more contemporary moneymakers, like online content creators and the cleaning staff for a mansion where TikTok stars live.
- *american (tele)visions* is Cazares's first fully staged live show with New York Theatre Workshop; the company previously produced *Pinching Pennies* as a web series in 2020.
- NYTW is known for producing world-premiere works, some of which go on to success on Broadway, like *Hadestown*. 

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Two words best describe [*american (tele)visions*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/26275-american-televisions-tickets) at [New York Theatre Workshop](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/new-york-theatre-workshop): sensory overload. The play is the theatrical equivalent of flipping through dozens of channels on the television, never being able to land on something to watch. On this channel, the characters are on a video game quest. Now they’re in a Walmart. Now they’re on a cop show. Now they’re witnessing a meteor show. In other words, *american (tele)visions* is a lot.

Victor I. Cazares's play opens up at Walmart, as an undocumented Mexican family do their weekly shopping together. The tomboy daughter Erica (Blanca “b” Norwood) is in the boys’ toys aisle, the closeted gay son Alejandro (Clew) in the guns aisle, the father Octavio (Raúl Castillo) in the television aisle, and the mother Maria (Elia Monte-Brown) running around the store buying food and cleaning supplies for her family. 

Erica narrates the story, categorizing her family not as people but as a collection of objects. “We are the things we make,” she says. “My father is a television.” But it’s not just because of overconsumption. The family lives in a trailer and works in factories, making chain-link fences and mobile homes. Their only mental escape from the drudgery is the television. Erica repeats those phrases, such as “my father is a television” and “my brother Alejandro is an unlabeled VHS cassette tape,” likely because those who are poor and undocumented, who perform the labor that Americans refuse to do, are never given an identity. It’s a poignant metaphor, rife with possibility. 

Unfortunately, *american (tele)visions* never give the characters personalities or growth beyond the objects they are associated with, leaving them one-dimensional and archetypes of the fallen American dream. american (tele)visions goes back-and-forth through time, slowly unfolding the story of a family who comes to the country with hope, but is eventually torn apart by tragedy. The narrative propulsion of the play comes not from the characters developing or growing or persevering, but through them (and the audience) discovering each other’s secrets. 

The central disruption to the family is that Alejandro is gay and had a Vietnamese lover named Jesse. The narrative potential of Alejandro having a lover who is also an immigrant is never fully explored besides an ill-conceived joke about boat people. And the confounding decision to have Alejandro and Jesse be played by the same actor (Clew, who has trouble differentiating either character in their performance) means both characters are never anything more than tokens of gay suffering or prejudice. This is most troubling in the character of Jesse, who now lives with the family for an unexplained reason and mostly serves as a helper to them. The racial implication of casting an Asian man as a passive assistant is troubling.

Elia Monte-Brown and Ryan J. Haddad (as Erica’s best friend Jeremy, who is also closeted) are the most adept at navigating the show's many tonal shifts, able to quickly switch from pathos to camp. Raúl Castillo is given one mode to play the entire show, an emotionally absent father, though Castillo (through his innate sensitivity and charisma) is able to bring some sadness and regret to the one-dimensional role. 

Bianca “b” Norwood as Erica is given the lion’s share of the text. Some of it is cliche and on the nose, such as “Dad, you’re a television. You’re a television in the television aisle at Walmart. Always on but never present. Always a demo and never free.” Norwood is moving in the part, but one wishes she was given more to do than be an anxious chronicler of her family’s pain. 

Despite the swirling projections and the peek-a-boo sets, at its core, *american (tele)visions* is a static portrait of a family in pain. There is no absolution or hope, just trauma with no release. Towards the end of the play, Maria tells her daughter, “Don’t have children. Love things that are replaceable. Easy to find.” If that’s the message *american (tele)visions* wants to leave for its characters, and its audience, it’s probably best to pick up the remote and change the channel.

[*american (tele)visions* is at New York Theatre Workshop through October 16. Get *american (tele)visions* tickets now.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/26275-american-televisions-tickets)

*Photo credit: Ryan J. Haddad, Bianca "b" Norwood, and Clew in american (tele)visions at New York Theatre Workshop. (Photo by Joan Marcus)*

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New York Theatre Workshop, situated in the heart of the vibrant East Village in New York city, is renowned for its compelling productions and development of fundamentally new work. For over three decades, this iconic venue has played a vital role in the world of theatre, having nurtured numerous powerhouse talents and launching seminal works that have transferred to Broadway and beyond. Notable productions include 'RENT,' 'Once,' and 'Hadestown'. The edifice itself is extraordinarily intimate, accommodating just 199 seats, thereby creating an aura of distinct connection between audiences and performers. The theatre retains the charm of a historical 19th-century building but is equipped with cutting-edge technology to accommodate transformative sets. The workshop offers an imaginative array of programs to reach as diverse an audience as possible, making it a beloved cultural destination. **How to get to the venue**: New York Theatre Workshop is located at 79 E. 4th Street, between Cooper Square & 2nd Avenue in the East Village. It is accessible by subway using the F train to 2nd Avenue, the 6 train to Bleecker Street, the B/D/F/M train to Broadway-Lafayette Street and the R train to 8th Street-NYU. If travelling by bus, use the M8 bus line. Local parking garages can be found at E 9th St. and E 11th St.

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Founded in 1979 by Stephen Graham, New York Theatre Workshop is one of the leading producing theatres of new work in the United States. The company’s first production was *A Day in the Life of the Czar*, written by Frank O’Hara and V.R. Lang and directed by Peter Sellars. In 1992, NYTW moved into its current home, a 199-seat capacity theatre in the East Village area of Manhattan.

NYTW's inaugural production at 79 East 4th St. was Leo Bassi’s *C. Colombo Inc.*, which opened in October 1992. The company has produced a number of landmark shows over the years including new works from Caryl Churchill, Athol Fugard, Tony Kushner, Doug Wright, and more.

One of NYTW's most well-known productions is Jonathan Larson’s musical *Rent*, which the compaany developed over two years before a premiere in January 1996. *Rent* transferred to Broadway’s [Nederlander Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/nederlander-theatre) and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical.

In 2005, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development granted NYTW a vacant building at 72 East 4th Street. After extensive renovations, the building officially opened in September 2011 as NYTW’s scenery, costume, and production shop.

## How to get to New York Theatre Workshop off Broadway

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New York Theatre Workshop, a historic yet modern venue in East Village, is renowned for developing innovative works often transferred to Broadway and beyond.

The full cast and creative team have been set for american (tele)visions, the first show in New York Theatre Workshop's Off-Broadway season. Performances run from September 9 to October 16, with opening night on September 29.

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