City of Refuge

One of the most exciting aspects of the project, according to Ortiz, is that it will be performed here at Southside Presbyterian Church. The small church will become a theater with multiple stages and with professional lighting and sound equipment.When playwright Milta Ortiz was growing up in California, she was very familiar with the widespread Latino culture and population, largely with its roots in Mexico. But, as a child in the 1980s, she remembers feeling that, with her El Salvadoran herita