The actor’s role in the onscreen adaptation hearkens back to his introduction to musical theater and time spent in New York City.
Tag: In the Heights
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It’s officially summer with In the Heights
After a delayed release, the vibrant film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical couldn’t be more welcome.
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In Tanya Saracho’s Fade, it’s hard to say who’s oppressed
Intersectionality meets the workplace comedy in this Teatro Vista-Victory Gardens coproduction.
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2016 in theater was wildly convulsive on- and offstage
Controversies over abuse, alleged druggings, and “whitewashing” roiled even as Shakespeare 400 Chicago soared.
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From the $10 bill to the multimillion-dollar musical
In an extraordinarily ugly election season, the rousing Hamilton shows us the light.
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A dispute seems to have galvanized Porchlight’s In the Heights
There was much ado about the casting of Porchlight Theatre’s In the Heights, but Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton musical shines through.
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Onstage this fall: Race and violence
Chicago’s fall theater season shows a new emphasis on social consciousness.
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How do you stop whitewashing Chicago theater?
The theater community gathered to work on a solution.
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Porchlight’s whitewashing of In the Heights narrator is a letdown for Latinx community
The Hemosa-based musical theater company could have told a powerful story of Latinxs in America. Instead they cast a white actor as the storyteller.
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Porchlight casting raises questions on the nature of ‘authentic’ theater
The Chicago theater community debates casting for Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’s In the Heights.