Antes de que llegara la pandemia en 2020, el Teatro Máscara Mágica de Chula Vista presentó sus musicales navideños La Pastorela en el escenario del Old Globe y del San Diego Repertory Theatre durante ...

Nearly every holiday season for the past 27 years, San Diego’s Teatro Máscara Mágica has staged a fresh take on the Mexican Christmas tradition of the “Pastorela,” a play about the biblical journey of ...

Sign up here to receive our weekly newsletter centered around Latino issues in California. One of the world’s oldest stories gets a modern twist in a seasonal play ...

For a 6,000-year old entertainment, The Pastorela sure gets around. It’s performed all over the world every Christmas, perhaps most devotedly and hilariously in Mexico. The satire and personalities ...

Long ago and faraway in Medieval Europe a tradition of Christian “shepherd plays” emerged that enacted each year the story of the Nativity. The plays were often performed by theater troupes on wagon ...

Every Pastorela, the reenactment of the shepherds' journey to see the newborn Jesus and triumph over temptation by diablos, is unlike any other. After Franciscan missionaries brought the nativity ...

And every year, it’s a hoot to see which public figure is demonized as Lucifier. One year, that role fell to Arizona’s Attorney General Tom Horne. Another, a certain “American Idol” judge got the ...

Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts presents “La Pastorela” or “The Shepard’s Plays” in Spanish. Originating in medieval Europe as religious dramas and later brought to the New World and Alta California ...

The bilingual musical “La Pastorela de Sactown” features, from left, Shannon Van Der Mersch, Carlos Kandia and Rueben Rivera, shown during a rehearsal earlier this month. Héctor Navejas Vida en el ...

Pastorela stock figures You'll always find these in a pastorela: Lucifer, who frequently tries to tempt the shepherds away from their mission. You’ll often find Lucifer comes in the shape of ...