Theatergoers have an opportunity this weekend to see something that doesn’t happen often on professional stages in St. Louis: an all-Latino cast and director presenting a show about life in a Spanish-speaking community.

Metro Theater Company has been touring the show at area schools — producers recommend it for audience members ages 5 and up — but will give performances that are open to the general public on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the theater’s home base in Grand Center.

“ Carmela, Full of Wishes ” is a one-act play by Alvaro Saar Rios, based on a children’s book by Matt de la Peña with illustrations by Christian Robinson.

It depicts a day in the life of a young girl who walks around her neighborhood with her big brother, interacting with neighbors and shopkeepers and plannin

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