The Huntington
Don't Eat The Mangos
Calderwood Pavilion, 527 Tremont Street
March 26 – April 27 2025Winner! 2021 Will Glickman Award for Best Play
Playwright Ricardo Pérez González’s wickedly funny tragedy Don’t Eat the Mangos portrays life on his home island of Puerto Rico with compassion and humor through the saga of three sisters living just outside San Juan. As a hurricane approaches the beautiful island, secrets and ugly truths are revealed that cause the sisters to wrestle with how to stay true to their familia and homeland – and seek a satisfying revenge. Obie Award winner David Mendizábal returns from the acclaimed world premiere production to direct.
Written by Ricardo Pérez González
Directed by David Mendizábal
Don’t Eat the Mangos was developed, in part, at the 2019 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.
Don’t Eat the Mangos was developed and supported through a partnership between The Sol Project and Magic Theatre.
Don’t Eat the Mangos was first produced as a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by the Magic Theatre (California). For more information, please visit nnpn.org.
The Huntington Calderwood
527 Tremont Street. Boston, MA 02116
Winner! 2021 Will Glickman Award for Best Play
Playwright Ricardo Pérez González’s wickedly funny tragedy Don’t Eat the Mangos portrays life on his home island of Puerto Rico with compassion and humor through the saga of three sisters living just outside San Juan. As a hurricane approaches the beautiful island, secrets and ugly truths are revealed that cause the sisters to wrestle with how to stay true to their familia and homeland – and seek a satisfying revenge. Obie Award winner David Mendizábal returns from the acclaimed world premiere production to direct.
Written by Ricardo Pérez González
Directed by David Mendizábal
Don’t Eat the Mangos was developed, in part, at the 2019 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.
Don’t Eat the Mangos was developed and supported through a partnership between The Sol Project and Magic Theatre.
Don’t Eat the Mangos was first produced as a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by the Magic Theatre (California). For more information, please visit nnpn.org.
The Huntington Calderwood
527 Tremont Street. Boston, MA 02116
Duration
TBD
NOTABLE DATES
Opening Night: 4/2 at 7 pm
ASL: Friday, 4/18 at 7:30 pm
Open Captions: 4/22 at 7 pm
Audio Described: 4/26 at 2 pm
Calderwood Pavilion/BCA, 527 Tremont St
The Calderwood Pavilion contains the Wimberly Theatre, the Roberts Studio Theatre, the Carol G. Deane Hall, and the Nicholas Martin Hall. You should navigate to the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA if you are seeing a show in any of those aforementioned spaces.
Directions and parking for the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA
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