In 2014, internationally renowned playwright Suzan-Lori Parks began her much-discussed “Watch Me Work,” an occasional performance on Monday evenings in which audiences can quite literally watch Parks working on her newest writing projects on the mezzanine of the Public Theater in New York. ...
From Oct. 29-Nov. 19, 2017, San Antonio’s Nicolás Valdez will travel to California to be in residence at the Los Angeles Theatre Center where his show, Conjunto Blues, will play in repertory alongside 12 other productions as part of the Encuentro de las Américas International Theatre Festival. ...
As the nation’s fourth largest city, Houston is home to more than 2.1 million people (over 5 million in the metro area). The city’s Latina/o residents comprise roughly 41 percent of the population. As I have detailed before (See: “Excluding Latina/o Stories in Tejas”), Houston’s arts scene has seen a major boom in capital projects, funding, and national exposure....
Trevor Boffone is an educator, theatre scholar, and founder of the 50 Playwrights Project: A Digital Space for Latin@ Theatre. Find more at trevorboffone.com and on Twitter @trevorboffone.
