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Pulitzer Prize winning writer Quiara Alegria Hudes

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Quiara Alegria Hudes Wins Pulitzer Prize

By Sally Mercedes | 04/17/2012 - 17:00 | 0 Comments

The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2012 were announced and the list of winners includes a Latina: Quiara Alegría Hudes! The writer won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play...

EXCLUSIVE: Lin-Manuel Miranda on the End of his Broadway Show 'In the Heights'

By Mariela Rosario | 12/22/2010 - 09:00 | 0 Comments

We recently caught up with composer/actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, who rocked the world of Broadway with his amazing show In the Heights—a musical about the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York that incorporated hip-hop and salsa rhythms, featured an almost entirely Latino cast and wracked up four TONY Awards in 2008 (including...

In the Heights Coming to an End

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Latino Broadway Musical 'In the Heights' Coming to an End

By Mariela Rosario | 10/28/2010 - 15:20 | 0 Comments

Three years, four Tonys and one movie deal later, Lin-Manuel Miranda's wildly successful musical masterpiece In the Heights is ending it's run on Broadway.

It was just announced that the show would no longer run on the Great White Way and that the show's creator and original star, Lin-Manuel Miranda return for the last two...

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Ricky Martin Returns to Broadway in 'Evita'!

By Angie Romero | 06/15/2010 - 14:00 | 0 Comments

This isn’t happening for another two years, but the news is too exciting to keep under wraps! Broadway producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders have announced that the first new production of Evita in more than 30 years will launch in a Nederlander Theater in the Spring of 2012 with Latin superstar Ricky Martin,...

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Ricky Martin Offered Role in Broadway Revival of 'Evita'

By Mariela Rosario | 03/04/2010 - 13:30 | 0 Comments

When the new Broadway revival of Evita debuts next year at the Nederlander theater, creators Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice are hoping to up the production's star power by bringing Ricky Martin on board to play the role of Che Guevara. The revival, budgeted at $10 million, will be directed by...