BUY TICKETS In Manhattan PRTT 304 W 47th Street El Barrio – The 70’s – When Salsa was the religion of the masses! Currently featuring DOMINGO QUIÑONES! I Like It Like That – A Musical is the story of the Rodriguez family living in New York City’s East Harlem in the early 1970s, when music…
EL BOLERO WAS MY DOWNFALL Text in English. Songs in Spanish. Dual-language supertitles. Strictly Limited Engagement JUNE 1-30, 2017 BUY TICKETS! Days before leaving jail, LOCA LA DE LA LOCURA, nightclub entertainer and self-fashioned femme fatale, recounts a life of travestismo and the terrible turn that landed her in prison. A tribute to a great…
Buy Tickets December 18, 2016 7pm & 9pm IN THE BRONX Six urgent plays about the BX! 6 PLAYWRIGHTS • 6 DIRECTORS • 18 ACTORS unite in six 10-minute raw impressions of 6 Bronx sources and events. The short plays are created over the span of 48 Hours and performed live in one thrilling final…
“Look at her! She’s so beautiful!”, said Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to have flown space, as the space shuttle took her and fellow astronauts hundreds of miles away. Ms. Tereshkova, a Russian cosmonaut, was referring to Planet Earth. Earth was a female. It always has been. I remember that day in 1969 when Neil…
THE DESIRE OF THE ASTRONAUT World Premiere May 4-22, 2016 Pregones Ensemble’s latest production! Enter the world of Esteban Only – the last Boricua in space! Written and directed by Alvan Colón-Lespier. Musical Director Desmar Guevara. [tab: ABOUT] Floating in space thousands and thousands of miles away from us, Esteban Only is calling, yet his call…
Works In Progress Presentation Saturday October 31, 2015 @ 8pm Showcase of works in development at Pregones/PRTT! “Remojo” is what you do to the beans to get them ready for the stew! A one-night sneak-peek at new works in progress by artists from our acting and music ensemble, and their friends A feature event of…
World Premiere November 11-22, 2015 Pregones Ensemble’s latest production! In its latest “Repertory Remix”, our ensemble braids timeless tales and songs of love, war, and resistance. Directed by Jorge B. Merced. Musical Director Desmar Guevara. A featured event of PregonesPRTT’s PLATAFORMA project – The Bronx-Broadway Showcase for Latino Theater. [tab: ABOUT] The production is inspired by…
Our recent, multi-voiced and multi-media blog series is now archived for you to read, comment, and share in conjunction with the Off-Broadway run of BETSY! —the Appalachian-Puerto Rican Musical— starting April 9 at PRTT! Thanks to our partners at Roadside Theater, the good people at Café Onda, HowlRound, and Imagining America, and the BETSY! Circle…
October 1-25, 2014, in MANHATTAN A brand new staging of “the quintessential Boricua play,” celebrating the merger of Pregones Theater and Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. Featuring the return to the stage of acclaimed actor and original Apagón cast member Jorge B. Merced, together with rising Latino stage, film, and music star Flaco Navaja. Directed by…
Afro-Latino rhythm and culture to heat up your holiday season! BOMBA, PLENA & POESÍA Rhythmic treasures of our Afro Caribe heritage, from Palés to Guillén! A classic, Baile Cangrejero sets the great masters of Afro-Latino poetry to the dynamic rhythms of bomba, plena and bolero. [tab: TICKETS] CLICK ON DATES FOR ADVANCE DISCOUNT TICKETS! Wednesday,…