Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater announces a rich calendar of new and encore plays, musicals, and highlight projects for 2022. The sequence kicks off brightly with the premiere of short doc Queer Latine Voices at Teatro Pregones as part of PBS affiliate WNET’s ALL ARTS and its series The First Twenty, followed by performances of Quarter…
It is in creative networks that I got my professional grounding and became a fully dimensioned human being. The most impactful of these were co-designed and co-led by women of color. My enduring relationships and roles in the arts, culture, and the humanities are consistently forged in dialogue and collaboration with other workers who share…
The 22-23 Season has begun for the theater community across the country. A cautious beyond-pandemic atmosphere is sparking the creative energies of all spheres of artistic expressions. At Pregones / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, the ignition is on! And the Bronx Manhattan Theater Express is abuzz with events in both our theaters. Creativity abounds as…
Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Annouces 2022-23 Season with Plays Exploring Latiné Experience Through History — New stagings of original productions “Harlem Hellfighters on a Latin Beat,” “Aloha Boricua,” “Quarter Rican” and “Torched!” to take place at Puerto Rican Traveling Theater on West 47th Street. New York – August 31, 2022 – Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater’s 2022-23…
Pregones/PRTT and :Pública Espacio Announce Relief Microgrants for Artists in Puerto Rico — Benefit Performances in NYC: OCT 6 & 7 at 8pm and OCT 29 at 3pm* New York – October 12, 2022 – Pregones / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York and :Pública Espacio in Puerto Rico announce partnership to reactivate peer-to-peer Relief Microgrants for Artists in the…
BY ROSALBA ROLÓN Happy 2023! The New Year has landed, with its knowns and unknowns, like any other year. In our arts sector, the knowns are generally tied to previously programmed events, those pillars of our mission and reflective of our values. The unknowns, though, are tied to unexpected events, including social and political shakeups,…
BY ROSALBA ROLÓN Ahhh… The Sound of March Is Music! Music has been central to the creative life of our theater company for more than four decades. Music stars, emerging musicians, theater composers, lyricists. They have all played a role in creating a musical vibe at our Bronx theater on Walton Avenue and in our…
BY ROSALBA ROLÓN I confess. I’m not a math genius. But I’m not so bad either. Yet when I sit to write about PregonesPRTT’s upcoming production of QUARTER RICAN, I’m haunted by ongoing resistance and yet curiosity about my DNA. Convinced that all humans have a fraction of someone else’s history living within us, I…
BY ROSALBA ROLÓN During one of the many international engagements that our Pregones Ensemble has been involved in, we found ourselves in beautiful Slovakia, surrounded by its mountains, it’s people and our local creative partners of Divadlo z Pasáže. One morning, during breakfast at the hotel, the waiter, who knew we were in town for…
Pregones/PRTT’s co-Founder and Artistic Director, Rosalba Rolón, collaborates with Eric Swartz for a memorable entry on HowlRound.