Teatro Fest NYC 2025 is an annual New York City festival of Latino theatre, dance, music, and puppetry. Nine latin theaters in Manhattan, The Bronx, and Queens participate.
The Latin world has strong theatre traditions ~ reaching back to Spanish Golden Age theatre in the late 1400s. Back then in Spain, everyone went to the theater, from kings and queens, to homeless vagabonds. So much theatre was produced, that it even impacted English theatre traditions.
Teatro Fest NYC 2025
Teatro Fest NYC 2025, New York City’s Latino theater festival, is at IATI Theater, INTAR Theatre, Teatro LATEA, Repertorio Español, Teatro Circulo, and Teatro SEA in Manhattan; Pregones Theater/PRTT in The Bronx; and the Thalia Spanish Theater in Queens; from March 1 – April 30, 2025. 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
INTAR Theatre
“The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics,” is Argentine playwright Julián Mesri’s play about a wife who has to keep a multinational factory and her family going in the Latin American countryside, after her husband disappears. It’s at INTAR Theatre in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; from February 15 to March 16, 2025. $15. intartheatre.org 🇦🇷
Mesri just won a three-year residency at Signature Theater, an Off-Broadway theatre that develops playwrights.
Teatro LATEA
“Of Flowers and Tears” / “De Fluers et de Pleurs” / “De Flores y Lágrimas,” is an Afro-Latin ballet about the flowers of Martinique; by Carole Alexis of Ballet des Amériques; at Teatro LATEA in the Clemente Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 7pm (6:45 doors). $35. teatrolatea.org 🇲🇶
Pregones/PRTT
March is Music 2025, is a Latin, jazz, and classical concert series, featuring Yámbawa, Sol Carbone, Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours, Zaccai Curtis Quintet, and more at Pregones/PRTT in Concourse, The Bronx; all March long. From $28. pregonesprtt.org 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇵🇷 🇹🇷
Zaccai Curtis just won the 2025 Grammy for “Best Latin Jazz Album.” He’s not only a great pianist, he can tell you all about how the music came to be. 🇵🇷
Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours are playing a party in the batey (sacred community dance circle) featuring songs from their latest album “Songs del Yucayeke.” Sounds like a Taíno areíto (community gathering). Yucayeke is a Taíno cacique’s bohio where the community gathers. There is a Yucayeke a community restoring Indigenous Taíno traditions in Vieques, Puerto Rico. On the other side of Borikén, in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, there is a Yukeyeke Indigenous Museum. We are still here. 🇵🇷
Repertorio Español
“Los Soles Truncos” is René Marqués’ new play about the pain of gentrification in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, told by three formerly upper-class sisters who live in poverty on Calle del Cristo and feel that the Americans have taken everything from them. This lamento Boricua is at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan; Friday-Sunday, February 28 – March 9, 2025. repertorio.nyc 🇵🇷
Additional Repertorio Español productions in the festival include: “La Llamada” 🇪🇸, “Radojka” 🇺🇾, “La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao” 🇩🇴, Saul García’s comedy “Risoterapia” 🇨🇴.
Thalia Spanish Theater
“El vuelo de las palomas” (The Doves’ Flight) by Spanish playwright José Luis Alonso de Santos, is about two little old ladies who go on a mad movida madrileña shopping adventure after finding a bag full of money. It’s at Thalia Spanish Theater in Sunnyside, Queens; from February 28 to March 23, 2025. $40. thaliatheatre.org 🇪🇸
Teatro Fest NYC
Teatro Fest NYC is produced by the Alliance of Teatros Latinos NY. These are the participating theaters.
- IATI Theater in Manhattan’s East Village ~ iatitheater.org 🇻🇪
- Intar Theatre in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan ~ intartheatre.org 🇨🇺
- Pregones Theater/PRTT in Mott Haven, The Bronx, and Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan 🇵🇷
- Repertorio Español in Kips Bay, Manhattan 🇨🇺
- Teatro Circulo in Manhattan’s East Village ~ teatrocirculo.org 🇵🇷
- Teatro LATEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side ~ teatrolatea.org 🇵🇷
- Teatro SEA in Manhattan’s Lower East Side 🇵🇷
- Thalia Spanish Theater in Sunnyside, Queens ~ thaliatheatre.org 🇪🇸
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