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Evita sigue reinando en Broadway junto con El Libro del Mormón. Soledad Bravo se presenta en el Teatro Joyce en donde fue toda una sensación la temporada pasada. Ahora vuelve con un par de estrenos al teatro de Chelsea. El Repertorio Español tiene en cartelera parte de se extenso repertorio de obras clásicas y contemporáneas entre las cuales están Doña Flor y sus dos maridos, En el tiempo de las mariposas y la comedia La vida en los Esclavos Unidos. Y ya para Octubre, el Repertorio estrenará la esperada El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera, basada en la gran obra de García Márquez y el Guggenheim Museum presentará, también en Octubre, DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL, una obra inédita de Pablo Picasso. 

NOCHE FLAMENCA @2011

Bessie Award winner Soledad Barrio, heralded by The New York Times as "one of today's great dancers of any genre," and her company Noche Flamenca played to sold out houses last year at The Joyce. This season, they return with a New York premiere and a two week engagement, giving audiences even more chances to experience these astounding artists deliver flamenco in its most authentic and glorious form, one that creates fierce and haunting work through the vivid interplay of palmas, song, guitar, and dance.

Eva Perón utilizó su inteligencia y carisma para ascender rápidamente desde un tugurio de Argentina hasta la residencia presidencial como Primera Dama. Adorada por su pueblo como la abanderada de los humildes, se convirtió en una de las mujeres más poderosas del mundo, mientras que su codicia, descomunal ambición y frágil salud la convirtieron en la más trágica. EVITA cuenta la apasionada e inolvidable historia verídica de Eva, y nos deleita con algunas de las canciones más hermosas del teatro, como "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" y "High Flying, Adored."

* Leap of Faith > Con Raúl Esparza > Open Ended > Teatro St. James > LEAP.

Four-time Tony Award® nominee Raúl Esparza (Cabaret, Company) stars as Jonas Nightingale, an electrifying performer and rabble rouser who's planning to take the whole town for a ride. But when a small-town girl stops him in his tracks, this hustler may just discover something to believe in. 
LEAP OF FAITH features a roof-raising new score by eight-time Oscar®-winning composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors).The creative team also includes bookwriters Janus Cercone and Tony®-winner Warren Leight (Side Man); Grammy®-winning lyricist Glenn Slater (Tangled); choreographer Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys); and Christopher Ashley, director of the Tony®-winning Best Musical Memphis.

* The Book Of Mormon > by Trey Parker, Robert López y Matt Stone. Teatro Eugene O'Neill >> MORMON.

  

* Doña Flor y sus dos maridos > Septiembre 22 y 23 > En Repertorio Español. 

Photo: Christopher Auger-Domínguez & Michael Palma

Doña Flor misses her late husband’s passionate intimacy. She re-marries and magical realism allows her to live with her two husbands. A colorful adaptation of Brazilian Jorge Amado’s masterpiece.

* PROBATION > Septiembre 9 y 28 > En Repertorio Español. 

Photo by Michael Palma

A timely story about compromising moral values for the sake of getting rich quick. A Cuban man keeps his promise to bring a friend’s son to the United States. After the young immigrant gets a real taste of hard labor, he decides to accept a job offer as a director of a medical clinic conscious of the job’s dubious nature. He begins to enjoy the benefits of quick earned cash, but his world is turned upside down when he is arrested by the FBI accusing him of Medicaid fraud. After being released on probation, he realizes that he must make a difficult decision, whether to stay in the country and face prosecution or return to his former life in Cuba. Generational, political, and moral differences collide in this modern day drama written and directed by Yoshvani Medina. 

Winning Play of the 2010 Nuestras Voces National Latino Plays Initiative.

* La vida en Los Esclavos Unidos > Septiembre 15 y 16 >  En Repertorio Español. 

Saulo García, author and performer, stated that “this show shares the stories of immigrants that finally understood that it is better to be “scraping by” in the United States than “scraping by” elsewhere; of those that already had their first foreclosure and learned to do those things that were inimaginable in their countries such as: paint the house, clean the roof with a water pressure machine or install a toilet in the bathroom.” 

With outstanding humor, “La vida en los Esclavos Unidos” (Life in the United Slaves’) touches on themes such as the financial crisis, healthcare in the U.S.A., immigrants’ jobs and the lifelong trauma left after the interview for a visa at the U.S. Embassy. The production uses modern video projections to bridge the different episodes and themes. 

* En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas > Septiembre 8, 29, 30  >>  En Repertorio Español. 

En el tiempo de las mariposas. Photo Michael Palma.

“In The Time of the Butterflies” is the story of the courageous Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) from the Dominican Republic. The sisters inspired resistance cells throughout the country against the dictatorial regime of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. The ‘butterflies’, their secret code name, were brutally murdered by the regime in 1960.
Based on Julia Álvarez’s popular novel, the martyred butterflies come to vibrant life in a warm, brilliant, and dramatic production by the talented duo – playwright Caridad Svich and director José Zayas– that brought us the critically acclaimed production of Isabel Allende’s “The House of the Spirits” in 2009.

El Repertorio también está presentando Locuras de Wichita.

* Fuerza Bruta > Continúa en el Union Square Theater >> FUERZA.

* NEON BABY. A Staged Reading > Septiembre 28, 29 > FREE > Pregones Theater > NEON

A love letter to 1980's New York City. Inspired by the life of Juanito Xtravaganza. Conceived & directed by Jorge B. Merced. World Premiere in Spring 2013.

COMING UP!

* DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL > A Play by Pablo Picasso > Part of Works & Process Series > Octubre 14 y 15, 7:30 pm > Guggenheim Museum > DESIRE

While in occupied Paris in mid-January 1941, Pablo Picasso put down the brush and took up the pen for four days to write Desire Caught by the Tail. This rarely seen Surrealist play on the hardships of World War II was first presented on March 19, 1944, as a reading featuring artists and friends. On the occasion of the Guggenheim’s Picasso Black and White exhibition, on view October 5, 2012–January 23, 2013, Works & Process, with the assistance of Angela Westwater, founding partner of Sperone Westwater, will bring together a cast of artists for two special performances directed by SITI Company’s Anne Bogart. Enter via ramp at Fifth Ave and 88th St 

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