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El Pesebre is a Classic Nativity Play

Saturday, December 21, 2019
BRONXWORKS BETANCES COMMUNITY CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
NYC’s top Colombians in theatre, music and dance perform a shepherd’s play
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Evita directed by Sammi Cannold

November 13-24, 2019
MIDTOWN, NYC ~ A new production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about the first lady of Argentina, comes to New York City Center

Viva Broadway 2019

Sunday, October 13, 2019
TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT ~ Ana Villafañe of Broadway’s ‘On Your Feet!’ and NBC’s ‘Sunnyside’ and ‘New Amsterdam’ hosts a ¡Viva Broadway! cabaret concert series at the W Hotel

Freestyle Love Supreme

Oct 2, 2019 – Jan 12, 2020
BOOTH THEATRE
Times Square Theater District, NYC
Latin hip-hop improv, one of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (In the Heights, Hamilton) early projects, is the funniest show on Broadway

La Golondrina

Friday-Sunday, September 27-October 13, 2019
THALIA SPANISH THEATER
Sunnyside, Queens
Playwright Guillem Clua uses the famous Mexican song ‘The Swallow’ as a metaphor for being true to yourself

En el Ojo de la Aguja

September 7-22, 2019
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ A Colombian director and his theatre company explore how in the age of the internet and social media, actually communicating has become harder than threading a needle. In Spanish with English subtltles.

The Selfish Giant

Saturday, August 3, 2019
THALIA SPANISH THEATRE
Sunnyside, Queens
In Oscar Wilde’s short story, the selfish giant learns that the only thing blocked by the wall he built to keep children out of his garden, was his own divinity

Broken Words

CONCOURSE, THE BRONX; Fri-Sat, Apr 5-6, 2019; Puerto Rican Off-broadway theatre ~ A new play by the playwright in residence at Pregones

Flaco Navaja’s Evolution of a Sonero

Saturday-Sunday, January 12-13, 2019
PUBLIC THEATER
NoHo, NYC
In this Puerto Rican musical first developed at Pregones/PRTT, Flaco and his Razor Blades rap on growing up with Pedro Navaja and Hector Lavoe, and staying clean in The Bronx

John Leguizamo

NETFLIX, Oct 25, 2018 ~ Leguizamo makes it funny, but our ignorance of our own culture is no joke. We have a lot to be proud of – in our own culture and in our contributions to American culture.
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International Puppet Fringe Festival NYC 2018

Costa Rican, French, French-Canadian & Puerto Rican puppetry
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
Lower East Side, Manhattan
Wednesday – Sunday
August 8 – 12, 2018

Exquisita Agonía new Cuban drama at Repertorio Español

Written by Nilo Cruz
Directed by José Zayas
Starring Hannia Guillen & Germán Jaramillo
Love story about a middle-aged woman’s obsessive quest to find love in a young man who is transformed by the gift of life when he gets a new heart.
REPERTORIO ESPAÑOL
Kips Bay, Manhattan
CLOSING NIGHT
Friday, August 3, 2018

Latin artists and productions win six 2018 Drama Desk Awards

June 3, 2018 ~ Dominican, Ghanan, Jewish, Mexican, Italian, & Spanish winners.
Lindsay Mendez ‘Carousel’
Sean Carvajal ‘Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train’
Juan Castano ‘Oedipus El Rey’
‘Farinelli and the King’
‘Once on This Island’
‘School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play’
The Town Hall
Midtown, Manhattan

Othello Shakespeare in the Park

The Tony Award-winning Afro – Puerto Rican – American director tells the story of the Moor of Venice, classic Shakespeare with racial and religious themes that are surprisingly contemporary.
Delacorte Theater
Central Park, Manhattan
May 29 – June 24, 2018

Our Lady of 121st St

Tuesday – Sunday
May 1 – June 17, 2018
SIGNATURE THEATRE
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS. Directed by PHYLICIA RASHAD, Tony® & Emmy® Award-winning director.
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Paradise Blue is by Dominique Morisseau

April 24 – June 3, 2018
SIGNATURE THEATRE
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Written by Haitian-American Obie Award-winning playwright DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU. Directed by Puerto Rican-American Tony® Award-winning director RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON.
Jazz, gentrification, a sexy woman and hard choices make paradise blue.
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Farinelli and the King

The true story of the Italian opera singer who calmed the nerves of the Spanish king.
DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS
“Outstanding Costume Design for a Play”
Belasco Theatre
Times Square / Theater District
December 17, 2017 – March 25, 2018

Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train

October 3 – November 12, 2017
SIGNATURE THEATRE
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS. Directed by Obie Award-winner Mark Brokaw.
Winner of Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Revival and Lead Actor Sean Carvajal.
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Tony Awards 2017

Broadway’s top awards
Radio City Music Hall
Midtown, Manhattan
Sunday, June 11, 2017

A Bronx Tale

Longacre Theatre
Times Square / Theater District
November 3, 2016 – August 5, 2018

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Based on the classic French sex novel starring Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer
Booth Theatre
Times Square – Theater District
October 30, 2016 – January 22, 2017

I Like it Like That ~ Latin Soul

Pete Rodriguez sang it in 1967. Darnell Martin made it a movie in 1994. Tito Nieves covered it in 1997. David Maldonado made it a musical in 2016.
Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan
September 22, 2016 – January 29, 2017

REVIEW: La más grande historia jamás cantada

By Keith Widyolar The first original Colombian musical, “La más grande historia jamás cantada / The most amazing story ever sung,” made history by premiering on Broadway to an adoring crowd in New York last night at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.

The most amazing story ever sung

Jazz at Lincoln Center presented four special performances of “The most amazing story ever sung,” the Colombian musical that sold out every night in Bogotá for the last two years. September 21st, 22nd & 23rd, 2012. This is a story of Jesus, but it is not a religious telling of the story. This is the […]