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…
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…
Over the past year, Pregones/PRTT’s mighty family —made up of artists, staff, board, patrons, and donors at all levels— has helped our organization adapt, reinvent, and embrace new ways of doing what we do best: uplift Puerto Rican/Latinx voices in two languages, reach and connect across cultures and creative disciplines, and grow the circle of…
By ROSALBA ROLÓN There is a connection between those who make art and those who witness it. There are countless ways in which we make art happen —as we have learned over the past months—and countless ways to witness it. And in many instances, to participate in it. It is no secret that the output…
By ARNALDO J. LÓPEZ I choose to lead from a place of learning and generosity. This idea was first impressed upon me by my mother, who was a teacher in Puerto Rico’s urban public school system, and by my grandmother on my father’s side, with whom I lived formative years in the rural mountainside town…
From our earliest beginnings as itinerant performers, through years of focused activity devoted to establishing brick and mortar theaters in The Bronx and Manhattan, down to present day web and cable television broadcasts, Pregones/PRTT always draws its energy from the live current that connects artists and audiences. This unrelenting spark animates a robust multi-generational legacy.…
Anchor Arts Organizations in NYC Unite to Form New “Latinx/POC Arts Legacy Consortium” Eight institutions challenge historical austerity and funding inequity when serving underrepresented communities NEW YORK, NY, June 15, 2020 – Spurred by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, eight esteemed arts organizations with deep roots in local communities of…
Solidarity is a life value and a life practice. Pregones / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater joins thousands of diverse voices rising against the ongoing abuse of power and racial injustices resulting in the assassinations of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Mubarak Soulemane. Tragically, they are only some of the many African American lives erased…
By ARNALDO J. LÓPEZ We have always known that the joy of live arts doesn’t exist only within the walls of the theater. And yet, the hard facts of pandemic and physical distancing put our knowledge, feelings and experience to the test. How to balance the conflicting mandates of “Stay home, save lives!” and “The…
By ARNALDO J. LÓPEZ – In light of damages and sustained duress resulting from seismic activity in the area, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater has reignited a new round of emergency micro-grants to affected artists in Puerto Rico starting January 2020. The initiative is modeled on the success of our theater’s prior Hurricane María Relief Drive…