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Name Change by Santos Herrera
Latinos have made history and reached extraordinary heights in the world of entertainment; however, not all of them did so with the names they were given at birth. Name changing is a practice that was created during times of racial segregation. “In the old days of Hollywood,” reports Miguel Perez, an opinion columnist for Creators.com, “many Latinos often had to choose between hiding their ethnicities and losing acting jobs.” Perez added that “for them [Latinos], it was a matter of survival.” Rita Hayworth, one of Hollywood’s...
read moreMetro and Milagro are making us all talk Trash!
After it’s opening at Milagro last weekend, El Tesoro will travel to community settings in Gresham, North Portland, Hillsboro and Cornelius as part of Metro’s “Let’s Talk Trash” event series to engage the community in discussions about what systems we should put in place to manage our garbage in the future. Our garbage tells stories: what we consume, what we throw away, where we want our garbage to go and what we expect it to do once it gets there. In the next two years, the Metro Council will be making decisions that affect where our garbage...
read moreCritics laughed all night at “My Fair Latina”
The rumors started last week, immediately after pre-previews, and have now become roaring raves. The final production of Milagro’s 30th Season, “Learn To Be Latina”, just opened this past weekend and it has been giving audiences lots to gasp, laugh, talk, and especially think about… and they’re loving it! The critics also have been won over by this brilliant farce, astutely compared to the beloved classic “My Fair Lady”, in turn based on GB Shaw’s “Pygmalion”. Shaw is known for his...
read moreThe Hollywood Casting Couch By Joaquin Lopez
It is only a couple of days before the opening of Learn to be Latina, our 30th season’s closing production! Today we are happy to share with our readers a personal story from Joaquin Lopez, a Latino artist and member of Los Porteños, inspired by the premise of Hanan’s fictional story and his true life experiences in the pursuit of stardom. ¡Muchas gracias! to Joaquin for sharing what, frankly, it is so close to the story of Learn to be Latina that it gives one goosebumps! THE HOLLYWOOD CASTING COUCH By...
read moreMeet the Artist: Alejandro Ceballos
Español abajo Learn to Be Latina is a burst of color and rhythm, to be complemented by an exhibit of Alejandro Ceballos’ equally bright and bold artwork. Recently, we had the opportunity to ask the artist a few questions about his upcoming exhibit in the lobby of Milagro. Read on to learn more about him, and get your tickets today to this outrageous show. How would you define your artwork? I find it difficult to define it, since I don’t consider it something thought out, but rather direct and relatively spontaneous, though...
read moreA play with a certain reputation
We are only one week away from the Northwest premiere of the award winning play Learn to be Latina by Enrique Urueta, and here at Milagro we could not be more excited! And how could we be, with all the great reviews already associated with this show! The term ‘explosively funny’ sounds just about right for Enrique Urueta’s satire — for me, the many laughs came in violent bursts of shock and delight… Urueta’s play offers an almost indecent number of quotable lines and marks the emergence of a...
read moreThe playwright behind Learn to be Latina: Enrique Urueta
By our literary volunteer Santos Herrera Enrique Urueta Learn to Be Latina is big, is bold, is hilarious, and it doesn’t apologize. The play follows a young, talented woman named Hanan as she embarks on a strenuous journey of re-identification in order to become the next big name in pop music. The playwright behind this magnificent play is Enrique Urueta, whose play will be the grand finale of Milagro’s 30th Anniversary season in May 2014. Colombian-American Urueta, a native of the East Coast, was born and raised in Halifax County, Virginia....
read moreAn Invitation from our friends at BOOM Arts!
Guillermo Calderón, Chile’s foremost contemporary playwright and an acclaimed chronicler and critic of contemporary Chilean politics and society, is coming to Portland for the first time. Reed College, in association with local theatre producer Boom Arts, will host the playwright on campus for two days, introducing him and his theatre and film work to Portland audiences and to Reed students, who will have special opportunities to interact with him through in-class visits and informal conversations on campus. Guillermo Calderón’s plays have...
read moreMeet the cast of the most hilarious lesson!
In this photo: Michelle, Nicole, Matthew, Kelly, Orion and Olga The opening night for Learn to be Latina is only two weeks away! The director, cast and crew are working every day really hard to bring you the out-off-this-word performance of this season. Today at Miracle Insider we invited you to meet the hot, hot, HOT! cast members of Learn to be Latina coming up to Milagro theatre on May 1. Tickets on sale now Nicole Virginia Accuardi (Hanan) is overjoyed to have the opportunity to work with this insanely talented...
read moreThe Legacy of Milagro on display
We might have mentioned once or twice that this season marks Milagro’s 30th anniversary, and from now through September, our history history will be on display at the Oregon Multicultural Archives ! Archivist Natalia Fernández and intern Katrina O’Brien from OMA (part of the Oregon State University’s Special Collections and Archives Research Center) have spent the last 10 months poring over, organizing and cataloging the company’s history into a collection that will be housed and available to the public in the SCARC....
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