LATIN STANDARDS performance by Marga Gomez at COH

A loving, funny and true story of perseverance and creative and caffeinated addiction passed down from immigrant father to lesbian daughter. Mixing nostalgia, urgency, and comic edge, Marga Gomez portrays herself as a driven adult child of a Cuban entertainer. Defying reason, she attempts to produce a hipster comedy night at a struggling Latino drag queen club during San Francisco’s gentrification crisis. Between vivid portrayals of characters from 1960’s Manhattan to present‑day San Francisco, Gomez ponders the ballads (or Latin Standards) penned by her late father, Willy Chevalier, a comedian/producer/entrepreneur and composer of dance tunes that reveled in jealousy and obsession.

Presented at Center on Halsted as part of Destinos 2024, the 7^th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival.

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