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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Marchers / Los manifestantes (2015), a joyous cabaret theater assemblage of protest songs and visionary poems from around the world. The segment shown, “A mi me gustaría” (I Would Like It If), is a musical setting of Cambridge-based puertorriqueña Yara Liceaga Rojas’ poem “No es el final, yet”—done in the style of a new Puerto Rican danza.