October 8 & 9, 2021 | 6PM |The Ector Theatre | Ticket info below! About the Play The charming Christmas play has entertained audiences in San Antonio for 26 years and is considered as much a tradition as, "The Nutcracker", "A Christmas Carol, and " It's a Wonderful Life” with many families making it part of their annual holiday ritual with fans anxiously awaiting its return year after year! The play captures three Latinas in an uproariously comical attempt at making tamales for the first time. Things become even more entertaining when the spirits of two seasoned tamaleras appear to help the novices make the perfect tamal! Las Nuevas Tamaleras had its world premiere at El Teatro Bilingue de Houston for its First Annual Latino Playwright’s Festival, Houston Texas, September 1990. It soon had it’s San Antonio premier at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in March 1993. Since then the play has been produced by Theatre Three in Dallas, TX., Teatro Vision in San Jose, CA, La Compania de Teatro in Albuquerque, NM, Centro Su Teatro in Denver, CO. Laredo Little theater in Laredo,TX and back to Teatro Bilingue de Houston. Besides the annual holiday San Antonio production, Burras Finas Productions […]