SOL 11:
CUSI CRAM
Sol 11: Cusi Cram
Blanca & Ines
February 10-February 14, 2026
Written by Cusi Cram
Directed by Estefanía Fadul
Co-Production with LAByrinth Theater Company
Two young Latinas lock eyes at a Greenwich Village party in 1954—and the world tilts. Blanca is a razor-sharp bartender who’s weary of struggling to be a painter and is looking for a ring and a powerful man. Ines is a Cuban seamstress with an open heart and big artistic dreams. What begins as flirtation becomes a doomed duet—mentorship, rivalry, and seduction ensue—all played out in Greenwich Village in the cold water flats and ateliers where post war American art is being invented.
Blanca & Ines is an unsentimental love story about women who want everything- and the cost of ambition in a world that fears women’s talents and desires. It asks how art gets made, who is allowed to make it, and what women sacrifice to be seen.
Post-Show Talkbacks
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
7:30 p.m. showing "Blanca & Ines"
Art Curator Doug Dreishpoon & Playwright Cusi Cram discuss Women in NY’s Abstract Expressionist Movement of the 50s
Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator emeritus at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, consulting editor at the "Brooklyn Rail," and a practicing jazz drummer and percussionist, currently directs the Helen Frankenthaler catalogue raisonné project. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.