Bursting with laughs, music, and escandalo (“scandal”)! You thought your holidays with the family were dramatic? Wait until you hear these touching and hilarious Christmas stories of holidays past from three first-generation Latinas: Texas-born, Mexican American Sandra Valls, Miami-born, Cuban-American Diana Yanez and Maria Russell, the daughter of “an over-dedicated Mexican mother and compliant Lithuanian father.” When these three sassy friends get together, they drink plenty of tequila, dish about everything from moms to cucarachas to Farrah Fawcett, and share their funny and surprisingly personal stories of childhood Christmas ‘dramas.’ “CRITIC’S CHOICE… hilarious and heartwrenching… [a] very special ‘Special’” — Los Angeles Times. Nov. 30 though Jan. 7, The Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013; $32–$37 (discounts available for students, seniors and military veterans); (866) 811-4111; www.thelatc.org.