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Broadway is commercial theatre. Off-Broadway seats under 500. Off-Off Broadway seats under 100.

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Broadway New York Latin Theatre Features

Teatro Fest NYC 2025 is New York’s Festival of Latino Theatre

IATI THEATER, East Village, Manhattan 🇻🇪
INTAR Theatre, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇨🇺
PREGONES/PRTT, Mott Haven, The Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇵🇷
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL, Kips Bay, Manhattan 🇨🇺
TEATRO CIRCULO, East Village, Manhattan 🇵🇷
TEATRO LATEA, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷
TEATRO SEA, Lower East Side, Manhattan 🇵🇷
THALIA SPANISH THEATER, Sunnyside, Queens 🇪🇸

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Broadway New York Latin Theatre News

January 2023

January on Broadway:

January repertory at Repertorio Español:

  • En El Tiempo de las Mariposas 🇩🇴
  • La Casa de Bernarda Alba 🇪🇸
  • La Golondrina 🇲🇽
  • La Gringa 🇵🇷

The 18th Under the Radar Festival 2023 of new international theatre presents 36 artists from nine countries; at the Public Theater in NoHo, and other downtown venues; from January 4-22, 2023. 🇧🇮🇨🇩🇨🇬🇫🇷🇺🇸🇷🇼🏳️‍🌈

Sueño de Reyes – Dream of Kings; children’s theater that imagines the Three Kings arriving in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico instead of Bethlehem; is at Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 7pm; and Saturday-Sunday, January 7-8 at 3pm. $20 adults/$15 children. 🇵🇷

Saulo Garcia “La Locura Lo Cura,” is the Colombian standup comic’s new immigrant comedy show, at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan, Friday-Sunday, January 6-8 & January 13-15, 2023. From $17. 🇨🇴

NYC Broadway Week 2023 Winter offers 2-for-1 tickets to select Broadway shows playing January 17 – February 12, 2023. The show list goes up and tickets go on sale on Tuesday, January 10, 2023.

UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters,” Rachel Mars’ one-woman show about great love letters from history; is at the Public Theater in NoHo, NYC; from January 11-15, 2023. From $41. 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL
“Otto Frank,” Roger Guenveur Smith’s meditation on Otto, the father of famed Holocaust diarist Anne Frank with live music by Marc Anthony Thompson; is at the Public Theater in NoHo, NYC; Thursday, January 12-22, 2023. From $41. 🇺🇸

The world premiere of Mabou Mines’ “The Vicksburg Project” play, traces the experience of women and gender-fluid Americans in Vicksburg, Mississippi during the Civil War. The 1863 battle for the last stronghold of Confederate traitors on the Mississippi River, which included a long siege, was a turning point in the American Civil War (1861-65). It’s at Harlem Stage in Manhattanville, West Harlem; on Friday-Saturday, January 13-14, 2023. From $25. 🇺🇸

Cenicienta (Cinderella) by Glass Half Full Theatre of Austin, Texas; is bilingual puppet theatre about ten-year-old Belinda learning to love poetry and stand up for herself as she confronts her stepmother and stepsisters. It’s at the Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 1pm & 3pm. $18 (+fees) or 4 for $60 (+fees) with code 4FOR60.

Monica Bellucci’s “Maria Callas Letters and Memoirs” tells the personal story of Greek opera legend Maria Callas in her own words; is at the Beacon Theatre in the Upper West Side; on Friday, January 27, 2023 at 8pm (7pm doors). From $85. 🇮🇹

[LUNAR NEW YEAR]
New York’s Chinese Theatre Works “Hao Bang-ah, Rabbit!” is Budaixi-style glove puppetry telling bilingual stories of Lunar New Year, the Year of the Rabbit, and other Chinese zodiac traditions. It’s at Flushing Town Hall in Flushing, Queens; on Sunday, January 29, 2023. Performances at 1pm & 3pm. Workshops at 1:45pm & 3:45pm. Performance $15. Performance and workshop $22. 🇨🇳

February 2023

NYC Broadway Week 2023 Winter 2-for-1 tickets to select Broadway shows on sale on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 for shows January 17 – February 12, 2023.

February repertory at Repertorio Español:

  • El Quijote 🇪🇸
  • En El Tiempo de las Mariposas 🇩🇴
  • La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao 🇩🇴
  • La Golondrina 🇲🇽
  • La Gringa 🇵🇷
  • La Dama Boba 🇪🇸
  • La casa de Bernarda Alba 🇪🇸

Bartlett Sher’s “Pictures From Home” play; based on conceptual photographer Larry Sultan’s family photo memoir; previews at Studio 54 in the Times Square Theater District; on January 10 for a February 9, 2023 opening. From $55. picturesfromhomebroadway.com 🇺🇸

March 2023

Many new Broadway shows open in March and April to qualify for the coming Tony Awards.

Lolita Chakrabarti’s West End adaptation of Yann Martel’s story of resilience and survival, The Life of Pi play (5 Olivier Awards); starts previews for a March 30 opening at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in the Times Square Theater District; on March 9, 2023. lifeofpibway.com 🇪🇸🇨🇦

June 2023

The 76th Tony Awards are broadcast live on CBS-2 from the United Palace in Washington Heights, Manhattan on Sunday, June 11, 2023.

September 2023

The NYC Broadway Week 2023 Summer 2-for-1 tickets is usually for shows in September. (September 6-25, 2022).

Off-Broadway Week usually follows Broadway Week.

The Broadway League usually presents a Viva Broadway performance during Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15).

October 2023

Many new Broadway shows open in October and November for the holiday season.

November 2023

Many new Broadway shows open in October and November for the holiday season.

New York Latin Theatre Artists

  • Danai Gurira actress & playwright 🇿🇼
  • David Byrne musician 🇺🇸
  • Dominique Morisseau playwright 🇭🇹
  • Florencia Cuenca comedian 🇲🇽
  • Jaime Lozano actor 🇲🇽
  • Julia Álvarez novelist (In the Time of the Butterflies) 🇩🇴
  • Phylicia Rashad actress, singer, director 🇺🇸
  • Rosalba Rolón playwright & Pregones/PRTT Artistic Director. 🇵🇷
  • Ruben Santiago-Hudson actor & playwright. 🇵🇷
  • Saulo García comedian. 🇨🇴

Broadway Theatre

Broadway is the pinnacle of American commercial theatre.
Most Broadway theaters are in the Times Square Theater District.

  • Al Hirschfeld Theatre: Moulin Rouge! 🇫🇷
  • Ambassador Theatre: Chicago 🇮🇹🇵🇷
  • American Airlines Theatre
  • August Wilson Theatre: Funny Girl 🇵🇷
  • Belasco Theatre
  • Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
  • Booth Theatre
  • Broadhurst Theatre
  • Broadway Theatre
  • Circle in the Square Theatre
  • Ethel Barrymore Theatre
  • Eugene O’Neill Theatre
  • George Gershwin Theatre
  • Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
  • Hayes Theatre: Between Riverside and Crazy 🇺🇸🇩🇴🇮🇪🇮🇹🇵🇷
  • Hudson Theatre
  • Imperial Theatre
  • James Earl Jones Theatre
  • John Golden Theatre
  • Lena Horne Theatre
  • Lincoln Center Theater
  • Longacre Theatre
  • Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
  • Lyceum Theatre
  • Lyric Theatre
  • Majestic Theatre: Phantom of the Opera 🇫🇷
  • Marquis Theatre
  • Minskoff Theatre
  • Music Box Theatre
  • Nederlander Theatre
  • Neil Simon Theatre
  • New Amsterdam Theatre
  • Palace Theatre
  • Richard Rodgers Theatre: Hamilton 🇵🇷
  • Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
  • Shubert Theatre
  • St James Theatre
  • Stephen Sondheim Theatre
  • Studio 54
  • Walter Kerr Theatre
  • Winter Garden Theatre

54 Below is a Broadway cabaret in the notorious basement of Studio 54. If you can’t make a Broadway show, you can still feel the Broadway at 54 Below. 54below.com

Restaurant Row is West 46th St between Eighth and Ninth Ave in Hell’s Kitchen.

Off-Broadway Theatre

Off-Broadway theaters seat under 500. Programming gets more adventurous. The Public Theater is NYC’s most important Off-Broadway theatre.

Off-Off Broadway Theatre

Off-Off Broadway theaters seat under 100. Programming can be very avante-garde.

  • IATI Theater is a Latinx experimental theater in the Lower East Side led by Argentine, Puerto Rican, Spanish and Uruguayan artists. iatitheater.org 🇦🇷🇵🇷🇪🇸🇺🇾
  • Teatro LATEA is a community theatre company focused on Spanish Golden Age and contemporary Latinx theatre. 🇵🇷
  • Thalia Spanish Theatre is a bilingual community theatre with a Spanish director in Sunnyside, Queens. 🇪🇸

New York Theatre Festivals

  • Broadway Musicals Day is September 29.
  • Broadway Week is a popular 2-for-1 ticket promotion in January/February and August/September.
  • Escena Sur is a script reading series led by Chilean actors Berioska Ipinza and Pietro González. 🇨🇱
  • Viva Broadway is the Broadway League’s Hispanic Heritage celebration in September/October.
  • World Theatre Day is March 27.

Hispanic Alliance of Theaters

The Consulate General of Spain in New York is renewing the Hispanic Alliance of Theaters to promote Latinx theatre, in Spanish, in New York City. Our stages are small, but our theatre is big!

  • International Theater Art Institute (IATI) iatitheater.org 🇵🇷
  • Teatro LATEA (Latin American Theater Experiment Associates) 🇵🇷

About New York Latin Theatre

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” is the Broadway hit of our generation, but Latin Theatre is mostly Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. The Public Theater is New York’s most important Off-Broadway theater. Repertorio Español is NYC’s busiest Latin theatre.

All the world’s civilizations have their own unique theatre traditions. In Mother Africa, ancient Egyptian passion plays go back as far as 2,000 BC. Native Americans, including the Maya, Aztec and Inca cultures, had their own theatre traditions.

European theatre traditions begin with Aeschylus “The Persians” at the Greek Theatre of Dionysus in 472 BC. In Middle Age Europe, religious theater was used as a teaching tool, before it was banned for as unreligious. Italian Commedia dell’arte, which we now call slapstick physical comedy, became popular in the 1500s-1700s. Latin theatre builds on Spanish Golden Age traditions (1590-1681) when all levels of society, from royals to street people, went to the theatre.

New York theatre begins with Thomas Kean and Walter Murray’s Shakespearian and operatic theatre in the old Financial District in 1750. The first successful African American theatre was the African Grove Theatre which started at 38 Thomas St in Civic Center in 1821.

The first national American theatre was the short form comedy of minstrel shows from around 1850 – 1870. That racist nonsense still troubles us. In New York City, short form comedy evolved into vaudeville, radio, movies, and television. MTV and Tik Tok are contemporary forms.

“Direct from Broadway” became a theatre marketing slogan when productions began national tours after the U.S. Civil War (1861-65).

New York Latin theatre builds from Teatro Puerto Rico (1948-1994). Native American theatre traditions become part of Chicano theatre in the 1960s-70s.

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