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Welcome to the 5th Annual Celebration of
Latino Theater and Culture!
June 4-18, 2011

New York’s premier Latino International Theater Festival celebrates its 5th Anniversary with Theater, Dance, Music, Visual theater performances, Family Programming, TalkBacks with the Artists, and a Panel Discussion with leading Arts Presenters and Funders in the United States and Brazil  -- a total of 25 performances and events!

LAUREN VÉLEZ stars in TeatroStageFest 2011 
and launches the TV/Radio Marketing Campaigns as Festival Spokesperson

They Call me La Lupe - Lauren Vélez (Dexter) brings to life the “Latin Queen of Soul” in this gut-wrenching portrait of Cuba's musical icon, best known as "La Lupe." 

Limón Dance Company-  The Company celebrates its 65th anniversary with a major revival of Maestro Limón’s The Emperor Jones, inspired by Eugene O’Neill’s play, with original music by Brazil’s most beloved composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

The Orphans – A sensual and poetic love story set in an apocalyptic city in the year 2020, written and directed by Karina Casiano, Downtown’s most multi-faceted performer who joins Renzo Ampuero in this original physical theater production.

Quijote -An entrancing production of the eerie imaginings of El Quijote de la Mancha by Spain’s most renowned puppertry company Bambalina. 

My Audition for Almodóvar -  She can sing, she can dance, and she can act… but she can’t get rid of her Spanish accent. That’s why Inma Heredia is determined to audition for the only director who can make her a star. Filled with fun, flair and flamenco, it’s the chance of a lifetime for an actress on the verge of a nervous breakdown!

SOSUA: Dare to Dance Together - Award-winning composer Liz Swados developed this original musical with local Jewish and Dominican teens at the Washington Heights YM & YWHA. The story of 800 German-Austrian Jews that settled in 1938 in the town of Sosua, Dominican Republic, is interwoven with the students’ own writing on the themes raised by this universal play.

From Havana to Harlem: 100 Years of Mario Bauzá, featuring Bobby Sanabria Big Band and Guest - In this historic concert, The Apollo Theater and the critically acclaimed Bobby Sanabria Big Band will pay tribute to Mario Bauzá, the founding father of Afro-Cuban Jazz.

What’s he building in there? - What happens when a magician’s coin vanishes? What appears when the coin disappears? Chile’s cutting edge playwright/director Manuela Infante probes a single instant of magic in an attempt to stretch time and question the images that shape our perception.

Dancing in my Cockroach Killers -Integrating the breathtaking monologue Fuego en la cocina and the no-nonsense Why I Lost The Popularity Contest, Pregones Theater celebrates poet and storyteller Magdalena Gómez’s highly theatrical writings.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Based on Junot Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this riveting stage adaptation by The American Place Theatre chronicles the life of Oscar de León, an overweight Dominican boy growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, who is obsessed with science fiction and fantasy novels, falling in love, and understanding the curse that has plagued his family for generations.

Down these Mean Streets -This stage production, also by The American Place Theatre, adapts Piri Thomas’ powerful 1967 memoir, in which he emerges from a street life of drugs and crime and finds the talent and soul within to not only survive, but to enrich the lives of others through jazzy prose, rich in Hispanic rhythms and beat-generation slang.

My Baby is a Hero/Mi Bebé es un Heroe - A whimsical TeatroStageFamily puppetry show by Scaramouches Latin Children's Traveling Theater for children ages 3-8 that reminds us of the bonds of love that bring families together.

TeatroStageFest Conference - Danilo Santos de Miranda, Regional Director of SESC cultural centers in São Paulo, Margaret Ayers, President of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and Larry Rohter, Reporter of The New York Times and author of Brazil on the Rise, will provide an introduction to the  successful funding model in Brazil that democratizes access to a thriving arts movement, and engage audiences in examining the need to develop new funding mechanisms in the U.S. that will further artistic international exchange.

NY Latino Scene – TeatroStageFest announces the many other Latino shows going on in town during the month of June 2011, and celebrates the vision of New York’s theater companies and independent artists, many of whom have been featured in past editions of our Festival! (Note: this page is still under construction.)

THANK YOU to all of our Sponsors and Partners 
for helping us make TeatroStageFest 2011 a reality!