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TODAY at 5pm ‼️ at Come out to Marfa Lives Arts’ SPRING SHOWCASE THEATER when Monologues by Marfa Junior High students...
04/07/2026

TODAY at 5pm ‼️ at

Come out to Marfa Lives Arts’ SPRING SHOWCASE THEATER when Monologues by Marfa Junior High students will come to life by local actors! 🎭

It’s that time of ther year when Monologues by Marfa Junior High students will come to life by local actors! 🎭Congratul...
04/02/2026

It’s that time of ther year when Monologues by Marfa Junior High students will come to life by local actors! 🎭

Congratulations to all the winning young playwrights whose monologues will hit the stage Tuesday! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

7th Grade 🏆:
Azul Alvidrez, Ranger Dugan, Fatima Floresvillar, Liam Lopez and Lyla Luppino.

 
8th Grade 🏆:
Itzayanna Duran, Olivia Esparza, Raivon Hamilton, Juliet Hinojos, Fabian Marquez and Logan Pippen

The Spring Showcase at Planet Marfa, is a great chance to support the students! 👆🏻7th grader Liam Lopez about his winning monologue and his vision for the performance.

“Even if you don’t know a student or a teacher, please attend. Come show a student that you want to hear what they think and that you value their voice in this community. We’ve also lined up some really great actors to participate. I love the opportunity to connect a student with an adult who maybe wouldn’t have gotten the chance to know them otherwise. It’s a reciprocal benefit. We feed one another with support and ideas which will then go directly into the fabric of our shared community. If we want to sustain true local ideas and values into this place, this symbiotic relationship is necessary,” says lead instructor Rachel Tate.

COME ALL to Marfa Lives Arts’ SPRING SHOWCASE THEATER with local actors at Planet Marfa on Tuesday, April 7, at 5pm

For more information on past and future Marfa Live Arts, please visit their website at www.marfalivearts.org

03/12/2026

A closer look on the Marfa Live Arts One Act Play Program …

For the past fifteen years this workshop has been taught annually at Marfa High School. And with each year, students’ writing voices have matured and developed. It’s a big accomplishment for anyone to write a play, and these kids feel great about having done it.

The Playwriting Workshop and presentation of the Marfa High School One-Act Plays supports the Marfa Live Arts’ mission of bringing the performing arts to West Texas, educating the area’s youth, and bringing the community together.

These programs have become the cornerstone of Marfa Live Arts’ education program. To get involved or for more info: marfalivearts.org

SO MUCH 💫 TALENT at the 15th Annual Marfa Live Arts 🎭 One Act Plays 🎭 at the Crowley Theater this past Wednesday capture...
03/12/2026

SO MUCH 💫 TALENT at the 15th Annual Marfa Live Arts 🎭 One Act Plays 🎭 at the Crowley Theater this past Wednesday captured by !

Congratulations to all the students of MISD whose winning plays hit the stage, and thank you all for attending and supporting this incredible community of directors, writers, actors, movers & shakers! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Tech Director: Fatima Anaza
Directors : Fatima Anaza, Dillon Orr
Ky Shin & Zain Sheikh
Stage Manager: Rachel Neel
Lighting Operator: Link Wolfe

🌹Cast:
Jason Lara, Mia Valentini, Elliot Horn, Dillon Orr, Julían Herrera, Yoseff Ben-Yehuda, Belen Garcia, Abby Boyd, Laura Buckshaw, Jerram Rojo, Haley Levin and Hannah Goldfarb.

Thank you to our sponsors  ,  , 

Special Thanks 🙏🏻 to MISD, Arturo Alferez, Linda Ojeda, Donel Hartnett, Jaylia Foster, Elizabeth Gore, Rachel Gomez, Ramón Esquivel, Fatima Anaza, Crowley Theater, Tim Crowley, Tim Johnson, Tina Rivera , Marfa Public Radio, Chris Dyer, Big Bend Sentinel, Angel and Daniel Molinar, Angel’s Cafe, Cory Van D**e, Printco, Marfa Education Foundation, Beth Kerzee, Abby Boyd, Sarah Madero, Robert Fly and our star actors!

NEXT WEEK! ‼️Marfa Live Arts presents the 15th Annual Marfa High School One-Act Plays 🎭 showcasing four award-winning st...
02/26/2026

NEXT WEEK! ‼️

Marfa Live Arts presents the 15th Annual Marfa High School One-Act Plays 🎭 showcasing four award-winning student plays brought to life by our local star ✨ actors!

Wednesday March 4th, 2026
Crowley Theater | 7pm (doors at 6:30pm)
🌮 by Angels Cafe
Free community food good event 🫶

All of the plays this year are exceptional, and we are incredibly proud of these students, we encourage folks to come out and support their hard work!

Actors include Jason Lara, Mia Valentini, Elliot Horn, Dillon Orr, Julían Herrera, Yoseff Ben-Yehuda, Jordan DeLao, Fatima Anaza, Abby Boyd, Laura Buckshaw and Jerram Rojo, Haley Levin and more!

For more information please visit www.marfalivearts.org.

This program is generously supported by , and

Special Thanks 🙏🏻 to MISD, Arturo Alferez, Linda Ojeda, Donel Hartnett, Jaylia Foster, Elizabeth Gore, Rachel Gomez, Ramón Esquivel, Crowley Theater, Tim Crowley, Tim Johnson, Tina Rivera , Marfa Public Radio, Chris Dyer, Big Bend Sentinel, Angel and Daniel Molinar, Angel’s Cafe, Corey van D**e, Printco, Marfa Education Foundation, Beth Kerzee, Sarah Madero, Robert Fly and our star actors!

Winners Announced !🏆Marfa Live Arts is proud to announce the 2026 student prize-winning monologues that will showcase th...
02/13/2026

Winners Announced !🏆

Marfa Live Arts is proud to announce the 2026 student prize-winning monologues that will showcase the stage this year!

Freshmen: First Place, What Moves in the Dark by Seth Nuñez;
Honorable Mention, The Backflip by Liliana Zubia.

Sophomores: First Place, Untitled by Ora Webb;
 Honorable Mention, The Appalachian Woods by Diego Sanchez.

Juniors: First Place, Untitled by Itzel Urrutia;
Honorable Mention, The Legendary Boxer by Jose Muñoz-Bueno.

Seniors: First Place, The Quiet After by Christopher Huerta;
Honorable Mention, Only the Moon by Piper Donaldson. 

👏🏻👏🏻Congratulations👏🏻👏🏻

SAVE THE DATE

The High School winning monologues will hit the stage March 4th at Crowley Theater for the annual One Act Plays. If you would like to be involved & DM us mail [email protected]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Our very own Marfa Live Arts Director Jennie Lyn Hamilton will present Por La Ventana at the Teatro Santa Ana in S...
02/11/2026

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Our very own Marfa Live Arts Director Jennie Lyn Hamilton will present Por La Ventana at the Teatro Santa Ana in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico tomorrow February 12, 2026!

Por La Ventana is a multi-media piece exploring ancestral connections through the lens of the Mexican Revolution set against the visual backdrop of a black-and-white film which runs the show’s length. The film is composed of public domain footage from Mexico during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, creating a moving historical canvas for the story.

At its heart, Por La Ventana is an exploration of connection – an intimate search for meaning, purpose and family ties that stretches from the present day back to the era of the Mexican Revolution. The narrative weaves together Francisco Madero’s fascination with Spiritism – his belief in communing with spirits for guidance as he stepped into his role leading Mexico into the 1910 Revolution – with Hamilton’s own family history in San Luis Potosí. It also explores the role the United States played in the Revolution recounting the Tampico Incident which led to the US invasion of Veracruz in 1914 under President Woodrow Wilson.

Por La Ventana will be presented in Marfa later this year!

01/20/2026

Last week we hosted our two big workshops at the schools!

Marfa Live Arts is back in Marfa ISD Junior High for the 10th Annual Marfa Live Arts Playwriting Preparatory workshop led by Rachel Tate.

“I love the opportunity to hear how their minds work as they grow in such an odd and wonderful
place in their lives: middle school. I think we all can recall back at least a little to the big feelings in their lives,” Tate explained. “So much is happening in their bodies and in their dynamics, it’s prime content for writing. The monologue is the perfect format to try out their thoughts and see what their voices are really wanting to say. The monologue is one person, one voice.”

Marfa Live Arts, Tate added, is open to hearing from community members of all walks of
life to engage and join in on the fun. “If you would to be considered to perform at the Winter Showcase in March (date to be determined) please reach out to us. We would love to have some new collaborators!” ❤️

For more information on Marfa Live Arts
programs past, present and future; or to inquire about joining the cast of the live
performances, please visit www.marfalivearts.org.

Lets give a round of 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 as we welcome Marfa Live Arts’ playwright in residence and Cal Poly professor of Theater Ram...
01/15/2026

Lets give a round of 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 as we welcome Marfa Live Arts’ playwright in residence and Cal Poly professor of Theater Ramón Esquivel who has been guiding the Marfa High students through the playwriting process this week 🤗.
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“I’m looking forward to helping them believe in their own voices and their own vision to write a play that is meaningful to them as individuals,” Ramón said. “I think that’s actually how we end up writing an interesting play: we write something that we want to see as individual people, and it ends up having a more universal appeal if it’s very specific.”

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In its 15th year, this annual weeklong playwriting program challenges the students to unearth their creative sides ✍️ in order to create a play that may be produced on stage for the forthcoming annual One Acts Play on March 4th. 🎭 So exited to see what the students come up with this year….. thank you once again Ramón Esquival 🤩 we are thrilled to have you this year!

12/12/2025

We are 🫶 grateful to our entire Marfa community as we reflect on an incredibly 🌟FUN year! We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming productions in the New Year !

As we gear up for this year’s school programming, we wanted to say it was SO FUN to 🤡 ClOWN WITH YOU ALL and enjoy the l...
09/18/2025

As we gear up for this year’s school programming, we wanted to say it was SO FUN to 🤡 ClOWN WITH YOU ALL and enjoy the last drop of summer fun together.

Thank you for the fantastic captures by of our ✨SPECTACULAR CLOWN PARADE 🤡✨ at Marfa Lights Festival 2025!

See video highlights of this year’s Circus Clown & Juggling Show🎪🤹 with and

Thank you again to the , the volunteers, performers, sponsors and the community for making this happen, all!

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