A comedian who built his career playing the mother everyone recognizes — the one who says the same thing twelve different ways until you agree with her — does not need to explain himself to a San Antonio Saturday night. The audience already knows the character. Mario Aguilar brings the Diezmadre Tour to the Aztec Theatre on August 15, 2026, at 9:00 PM, ten years into a career that started in Tijuana and has since crossed more borders, in every sense, than most entertainers manage in twice the time. Diez is ten in Spanish, and the second half of the tour name delivers the punchline in a single word.
About Mario Aguilar
Aguilar is Tijuana-born, internet-made, and live-performance proven. He came up through YouTube and social media building a cast of recurring characters — the iconic Latin Mom, La Morena, the Dad, the Brunette, the Blonde, the Redhead — that found audiences not just in Mexico and among Latin communities in the United States, but broadly, because the family dynamics he plays are specific enough to feel real and universal enough to land anywhere. He is an Eliot Award winner. His 2021 tour, Ser Loca no es Fácil, sold out its run. He has logged more than 300 shows across Mexico, the United States, and Latin America — Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, and beyond.
The Diezmadre run is the decade-anniversary tour, but it is also a working show with momentum behind it. Aguilar has been active through 2026 — El Paso and Stockton in February, McAllen in March — and the Texas leg now picks back up in Dallas the night before this date and continues to Houston on August 22. The routing — Dallas, San Antonio, Houston — is not accidental. These are the cities where his audience lives, and San Antonio, in particular, is where the cultural geography of his work feels most at home.
The Aztec Theatre
The Aztec Theatre at 104 N. St. Mary’s Street is one of the most distinctive performance spaces in South Texas — a 1,477-capacity theater whose Meso-American architectural character makes it one of the more visually striking rooms on the Texas touring circuit. Live Nation operates the venue, and it regularly draws touring headliners at exactly the level Aguilar commands. For more shows in the region, visit our San Antonio events page. The box office can be reached at (210) 812-4355, or visit theaztectheatre.com for full venue information.
Tickets
Tickets for Mario Aguilar’s Diezmadre Tour at the Aztec Theatre are available through Ticketmaster. Showtime is 9:00 PM on Saturday, August 15, 2026. Given Aguilar’s track record of selling out on previous tours, buying early is the practical choice. Get tickets here.