Teatro SEA is a bilingual puppet theatre company that produces some of our favorite New York theatre. Productions are world-class and fun for all ages. The Director, Dr. Manuel A. Morán is Puerto Rican, but the team is Pan-Latin. The organization has grown beyond live theatre into animation and more. In a way, Teatro SEA is the Latin Sesame Street. It really is that good.
The Company was founded in Puerto Rico in 1985. SEA stands for Society of the Educational Arts. It’s the only Latino children’s theater in New York and possibly the United States. Popular productions include the Three Kings Celebration, Borimix Puerto Rico Fest, and summer’s International Puppet Fringe Festival.
Bilingual shows are great for kids who don’t want to speak Spanish or are learning to speak English. Teatro SEA’s bilingual model invites children to speak both languages. Being bilingual is a type of superpower.
Teatro SEA Productions
JANUARY 2026
Three Kings Bilingual Children’s Theatre
“Dream of Kings // Sueño de Reyes,” is a modern Three Kings story where instead of following the brightest star in the sky, the 3 Kings use GPS which leads them not to Bethlehem, but to the home of Jesús Rodríguez, a kid in Trujillo Alto’s Barrio Belén, a real town inland from San Juan and Carolina, Puerto Rico where the coastal plain turns to hills. It’s at Teatro SEA in The Clemente Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; from Saturday-Monday, January 3-5, 2026. From $23. 🇵🇷
Belén is Spanish for Bethlehem, but as far as we know, there is no Barrio Belén in Trujillo Alto. The premise is right on though because GPS in Puerto Rico sometimes leads you astray to empty fields or off a cliff. After all, San Juan is one corner of the Bermuda Triangle. ¡WEPA!
OCTOBER 2025
Bilingual Children’s Theatre
“The True Story of Little Red ~ La verdadera historia de Caperucita” is bilingual children’s theatre; at Teatro SEA in the Clemente Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; on Saturdays in October, 2025 at 3pm. $23. 🇵🇷
Teatro SEA Tickets
Teatro SEA
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk St, Suite 202
Lower East Side, Manhattan
(212) 529-1545