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La Casa Azul - The Musical

A CIAO ARTS PROJECT

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Inspired by the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, La Casa Azul – The Musical brings her extraordinary story to life through original music, dance, and theatrical storytelling. Created by Gregory Glade the work traces a life shaped by art, love, identity, pain, and an enduring determination to create. 

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MORE THAN iconic:

PAIN BECOMES ART.

What do we make from the parts of life we never would have chosen? Frida's work—and Gregory Glade's's response to it—asks us to consider the possibility that pain can become something more: expression, beauty, even connection.

DEATH BECOMES A COMPANION.

What changes when we stop treating mortality as something that belongs only at the end of life? La Casa Azul brings death onto the stage—and, in doing so, turns our attention back toward what it means to be fully alive.

LOVE REFUSES TO BE SIMPLE.

The relationships that shape us rarely fit neatly into categories. Love can hold devotion and disappointment, intimacy and independence, heartbreak and persistence—all at once.

in La Casa Azul - The Musical

“A theatre-piece of extraordinary
beauty and perception.”

— Ken Klingenmeier, A Seat on the Aisle

behind the work

Hear Gregory Glade tell the story.

Go behind the scenes of the original production and hear Gregory talk about Frida Kahlo, creativity, and turning pain into art.

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“A work to be savored by future generations.”


— Tristan Ross, NUVO

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