Portland, OR — Didn’t get enough Day of the Dead at the beginning of the month? Miracle Theatre Group is stretching its annual celebration, which includes the bilingual play ¡VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN! and an accompanying “ofrendas” exhibit, through Nov. 13. Through song and dance, this year’s play honors “las adelitas,” the women who placed themselves [...]
Julie Cortez El Hispanic News Portland, OR — When Carlota Duarte, a nun with the Society of the Sacred Heart, an artist with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a dual Mexico-U.S. citizen thanks to her Yucatán-born father, spent three years travelling Mexico in the mid-1980s, she was amazed by how [...]
María Fernanda Mejía El Hispanic News Portland, OR — A group of visual artists spent the last two years trying to figure out a philosophical problem: What does it mean today to talk about Latin American art? Words such as “multidimensional,” “contemporary,” and “modern” came up from meetings they held in several cafes in Portland. [...]
Portland, OR. — For the fifth consecutive year, the Portland Latin American Film Festival (PDXLAFF) returns with a diverse mix of films that reflect the reality of the region. The festival coincides with Hispanic Heritage Month, which is celebrated each year in September and October. This year’s event will take place Oct. 20-26, exclusively at [...]
Julie Cortez El Hispanic News Portland, OR — It’s beginning to look a lot like Hispanic Heritage Month at Miracle Theatre. The atmosphere would be hectic there regardless of the time of year — the building is undergoing a pretty substantial remodel — but a lot of the hustle and bustle has to do with [...]
Julie Cortez El Hispanic News Ashland, OR — What happens when the Bard’s words meet mariachi melodies? Actor René Millán had his doubts when Bill Rauch, artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), revealed his vision for a Latino-oriented staging of William Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” that would integrate live mariachi performances on stage. [...]
Portland, OR — Most children will find a little time to play this summer. A very few lucky ones will discover to learn something about how to produce a stage play. Six artists from the Teatro Milagro will combine their skills to create a two-week hands-on workshop in August at the Villa Clara Vista in [...]
Julie Cortez El Hispanic News Portland, OR — Actress Debra Cardona has performed a lot of “serious” musical theatre — “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Light in the Piazza,” “Ragtime,” “Guys and Dolls,” “My Fair Lady.” Those were fulfilling experiences, but she’s currently having the time of her professional life in the touring production of “Mary [...]
Julie Cortez El Hispanic News Writer Portland, OR — If the Spanish crown took exception to the novel “The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities” enough to ban it for heresy during the Spanish Inquistion, the folks at Miracle Theatre probably would have earned some particularly gruesome form of Inquisition-style [...]
Julie Cortez El Hispanic News Writer Portland, OR — “Ana en el Trópico” is set in balmy Florida, but the play’s characters generate so much of their own heat they’d probably sweat in the dead of a Russian winter. Miracle Theatre is serving up this sexy, sweltering antidote to the winter blahs Feb. 11 through [...]
