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CHARITY: Part III of the (Unfinished) A Mexican Trilogy
Los Angeles Theater Center, Through June 3rd at LATC Reviewed by Senior Theater Critic Dale Reynolds The husband-and-wife team of José Luis Valenzuela and Evelina Fernández, who run the Latino Theatre Company at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, are quite the team; she writes, he directs and we all win. Their latest collaboration Charity is part [...]
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Queen of Make Believe: From Two Latinas and a “Lobo” in The Know
Based on the Songs by Los Lobos’ Louie Perez and David Hidalgo By Dale Reynolds Its been a long time coming but on May 12th accomplished theater producers, Theresa Chavez and Rose Portillo (also an accomplished actress) in collaboration with Los Lobos’ Louie Pérez, saw the fruits of their creative labor come to life with [...]
Latinos on Broadway \ Laton Media and entertainment Commission \ national advisory board
The Broadway League Launces Viva Broadway lvivelo! Live It!
New York, NY — The Broadway League has created Viva Broadway, a new audience development partnership with the Hispanic community, to help bridge the world of Broadway with Latino audiences around the country. The long-term initiative aims to increase awareness about Broadway while culturally enriching lives, bringing families together, and building new careers in the [...]
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Hot Tamales Live! Inks 3 Show deal with Ann Lopez & Jessy Terrero
Taping open to the public at Ricardo Montalban Los Angeles, CA – The Critically Acclaimed Kiki Melendez’s Hot Tamales Live is proud to announce that they have inked a deal with Ann Lopez, of Moving Target Productions and Jessy Terrero’s 123UnoDosTres channel to produce Hot Tamales Live 3 and 4, as well as a new [...]
Rick Najera Is Back at it – All About ICU
Rick Najera and the ICU - May 18th at the Ricardo Montalban Theater More likely than not, you’ve seen Rick Najera and laughed at his comedy. He is one of the most well known Latino comedy writers in Hollywood who has worked on TV show like MADtv — to some of the writing he does every [...]
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Latin Hollywood Films & Ann Serrano Lopez Present Hot Tamales & Fried Bananas
Production in association with Moving Target Productions & Jessie Terrero’s Youtube Channel 123 uno-dos-tres Saturday May 12th at the Ricardo Montalban Theater in Hollywood Los Angeles, CA — Kiki Melendez has a knack for bringing people together for the greater good of comedy. In a fete only few can make happen Melendez has enlisted the [...]
Finding the burnett heart \ Lilliian Therater \ Los Angeles \ religious intolerance \ theater
Finding the Burnett Heart
Runs Til May 27th at the Lillian Theater, Los Angeles By Dale Reynolds, Senior Theater Critic “Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern…like bad wallpaper.” Nietzsche. Paul Elliott has written a surprisingly strong drama about a dysfunctional family (is there any other kind in theatre?) who must confront their inner-demons [...]
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Adaptation of Cyrano Adds Poetic Dimension With ASL
Cyrano Runs at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles Til June 10th Review by Senior Theater Critic Dale Reynolds This new production, an adaptation by Stephen Sachs of Edmund Rostand’s 1897 über-romantic drama, Cyrano de Bergerac, is quite the theatrical experience. A co-production of the gifted Fountain Theatre and the esteemed Deaf West Theatre, this [...]
The Surreal Reality of “August G”
Reviewed by Senior Theater Critic Dale Reynolds Latino theatre is continuing its climb out of the narrowness of the barrio, and is steadily achieving recognition by more than just the Latino press and audiences. But the problem that sometimes hinders its full acceptance by non-Hispanic audiences is “magical realism” — taking life into the realms [...]
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Rick Najera & the ICU
Hollywood, CA – On Friday, May 18th, friends of award-winning writer/comedian Rick Najera will come together to celebrate “familia” with an all-star lineup of comedic performers including special guest stars Johnny Sanchez (MADtv, Happy Feet), Carlos Alazraqui (Reno 911, Comedy Central), Jill-Michele Melean (Nickelodeon, Comedy Central) and Rudy Moreno (Showtime). On March 3rd, Najera was [...]