Sinceramente YO

Central Drama brings Sinceramente YO to the Boyd Vance Theatre on Friday, November 13. It's a dramedy that pulls its weight from the things that usually stay under the surface: friendship, love, nostalgia, and the secrets people keep from each other. If those are the kinds of stories you usually gravitate toward, this one should hit close to home.

The play is a production of Central Drama, and the title Sinceramente YO sets the tone for what's inside—a look at the gap between who we present to the world and who we are when the masks slip. It's a dramedy, so it moves between the funny and the heavy, and it centers on the complicated ties that bind people together: the friendships that last, the love that complicates them, and the nostalgia that keeps us looking back. The secrets are the engine that drives it, the things left unsaid that eventually have to come out.

The venue is the Boyd Vance Theatre, a 134-seat room inside the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center. The museum is the first African-American neighborhood museum in Texas, and it collects, preserves, and exhibits artifacts documenting the history of African Americans from Austin, Central Texas, and beyond. It also works to ensure African-American artists are recognized for their culturally diverse heritage. The theater itself programs live music and first-run movie screenings alongside multicultural dance-theatre, so it's a space that sees a lot of different kinds of performance.

Sinceramente YO runs on Friday, November 13, at the Boyd Vance Theatre inside the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center in Austin. It's a production by Central Drama, a dramedy about friendship, love, nostalgia, and secrets.