Beauty of the Father

In Beauty of the Father one of the American theaters most promising voices rings true and strong.Lynn Jacobson, Variety

Cruz conducts arias with his pen. He is a writer of ideas, who fills the stage with a kind of lush dramatic literature . . . Beauty of the Father brings to mind the playwright Maria Irene Fornes. Like his artistic forebear, Cruz recognizes the magic in the everyday. And he has found an astonishing language with which to describe it.Hilton Als, The New Yorker

In his latest play, Nilo Cruz asks: What will we sacrifice in the name of love?

A young woman named Marina reunites with her father Emiliano in his artistic home, populated by his worldly wise female companion Paquita and the irresistible young Moroccan Karim, whom father and daughter both fall for. Set in the south of Spain, Beauty of the Father invokes the ghost of Federico Garca Lorca, both with its...