Teatro Vista to be honored at Equity Jeff Awards

The Latinx-themed Chicago company will receive a special award at the October ceremony.

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Meet the Morales siblings — Bobby (Joaquin Rodarte from left), Betty (Janyce Caraballo), Gina (Ayssette Muñoz) and Johnny (Nick Mayes) — members of a Mexican-American family in ‘60s America in Teatro Vista’s Midwest premiere of “Hope: Part II of A Mexican

Joel Maisonet

Teatro Vista, the long-running Chicago theater company specializing in the Latinx experience, will receive an honorary prize at next month’s Equity Jeff Awards, the awards committee announced Tuesday.

The announcement of the Special Equity Jeff Award said Teatra Vista, founded in 1989 by actors Henry Godinez and Eddie Torres, “has enriched the Chicago theatre scene with haunting, humorous, historical and magical stories.”

The company is about to open the Midwest premiere of Evelina Fernández’s “Hope: Part II of a Mexican Trilogy” at the Den Theatre as part of the Destinos festival.

The 51st annual Equity Jeff Awards ceremony honoring excellence in professional theatre produced within the greater Chicago area will be held Oct. 21 at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace. 

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