Gloria Calderón Kellett: Beyond ‘One of the Good Ones’
By Cris Franco What is an American? Gloria Calderón Kellett, the showrunner and co-creator of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning One Day...
East West Players’ New Mix-Race Take on Tony Winning Play ‘Spring Awakening’
By Cris Franco Founded in 1965, East West Players (EWP) is Los Angeles’ longest running theater company dedicated to raising...
Live and On-Stage Latino Performers Celebrated at NY’s 54 Below
54 Below’s Hispanic History Month Spotlight By Cris Franco To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Broadway’s rapidly expanding roster of Latinx...
Krysta Rodriguez On Being Cinderella In ‘Into the Woods’ At the Ahmanson Theater
Krysta Rodriguez returns as Cinderella in the critically acclaimed and much beloved production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods for...
Playwrights Horizons & MCC Theater Debuts New Latinx Comedy About Wrestlers, Alcoholics & Aliens
By Cris Franco Author, John J. Caswell, Jr. has channeled his Arizona childhood into a new play about a snarky...
Two Mexican-Americans Playing a Role In the Founding of America in ‘1776’
Written by Cris Franco In 1969 when composer/lyricist Sherman Edwards premiered 1776, his Tony Award-winning musical chronicling the drama behind...
Former Inmates Create and Perform in ‘Im(migrants) of the State’
By Cris Franco Actor/director Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, The Player, Anchorman, etc.) co-founded The Actor’s Gang Theater...
Spend ‘Sunday in The Park’ with Krystina Alabado At the Pasadena Playhouse
by Cris Franco This year’s passing of one of the American theater’s most impactful and beloved composer/lyricists, Stephen Sondheim, has prompted...
MOULIN ROUGE! The Musical Glitters at the Segerstrom
By Cris Franco Welcome to a world of romantic splendor and opulent excess. A place where the underground can meet...
Ana Nicolle Chavez in ‘Sanctuary City’ A Tale of Two Average American Teens
By Cris Franco Ana Nicolle Chavez co-stars in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok´s two-person play Sanctuary City at the Pasadena...
