Maria’s Experience @ RL 2023 Summer Camp
“The goal is not to create performers, it is to instill belief” – Heather Hogan Navigating my Latina identity has always been a complex endeavor. I was pushed aside because of it, but ashamed because I didn’t embrace it? I was praised for assimilating with the mostly white theatre community in high school, abandoning my […]
What a piece of work is a man!
Written by Marita A. McKee (BWS Class of 2023) Reimagining Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Fat Ham follows Juicy, a young Black queer man, as he grapples with his identity and the rather complicated task of avenging his father’s death (it is a tragedy, after all). And while I was somewhat familiar with the classic masterpiece, seeing this […]
Fat Ham on Broadway
By: Maria Belisario It is a challenge to instill the Shakespeare genre to the newer and younger minds of today, but Fat Ham has done just that. This 500-year-old story is turned upside down in a jam-packed 95-minute show, with no intermission! There were many moments where I laughed my butt off, where my heart […]
Kimberly Akimbo
By: Kayci Rose Kimberly Akimbo was an extremely well-performed & well-written show. Centered on 16-year-old Kimberly, born with a disease that causes rapid-aging, the musical’s main message was to live life without letting anything or anyone hold you back. It also implored it’s audience to be unapologetically authentic; the universe will always send people who […]
R.Evolución Latina looking for a Summer 2023 Intern!
R.Evolución Latina looking for a Summer 2023 Intern! Position Location: Hybrid – virtual and in-person NYC Type of Position: Summer, temporary, unpaid, average 10 hours per week – runs from June 1st to August 6th Position Category: Internship, Administrative, aid in multiple summer projects and programming that RL offers Brief Position Description: R.Evolución Latina (RL) is an organization […]
Words from BWS 2023 Participants
By Kiwii Villalobos As an immigrant and as a Latinx I was taught that, in this country, just to be considered for an audition I had to be the very best in a room, and still, my immigration status, my accent, my nationality, and things like that, which are inherently mine, would get on the […]