Lupe Velez

SPREAD World Premiere and More Set for INTAR Theatre '25-26 Fall/Winter Programming
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 29, 2025

International Arts Relations has revealed programming for the fall and winter of its 2025-2026 60th Anniversary Season. Learn more about the programming here!

Justin David Sullivan & More Join 2024 BREAKING THE BINARY THEATRE FESTIVAL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 7, 2024

Breaking the Binary Theatre has revealed the complete casts for the third annual Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival, featuring L Morgan Lee, Justin David Sullivan and more. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Tina D'Elia's OVERLOOKED LATINAS Opens Theatre Rhinoceros's 2020-2021 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 21, 2020

Theatre Rhinoceros will present OVERLOOKED LATINAS, written and performed by Tina D'Elia Directed by Mary Guzmán, a live on-line streaming production on November 13 - 22, 2020.

F*CK MY LIFE Plays Wild Project Theatre, 7/14
by Nicole Rosky - Jun 20, 2013

F*ck My Life (FML) tells the riveting backstory and failure of Xandra Ibarra's burlesque persona La Chica Boom. Using evocative sound montage, critical political imagery, and fast paced physical theatrics, FML chronicles Ibarra's early ambition to use burlesque "spictacles" to undermine her audience's Mexiphobic gaze. With astute direction from Evan Johnson, Ibarra reveals not only her tasseled pasties, as is traditional in burlesque, but also her incompatible relationship with her interracial audience and the emotional toll that her perverse-cum-filled-minstrel-spectacles have had over the past ten years of her burlesque life. By juxtaposing her story with the rumored death of Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Velez, who purportedly died with her head in the toilet, La Chica Boom foreshadows the destiny of her burlesque persona. While Ibarra doesn't resolve the show with death as Lupe did, she proposes to live the afterlife of La Chica Boom as a cockroach: reviled and untamable.

MMI Hosts Screening of Warhol’s Screen Test #2 and Rodrigues-Soltero’s Lupe
by BWW News Desk - Nov 13, 2011

The legendary Mario Montez, one of the most well-known and beloved figures of New York's underground film and theater scene of the 1960s and 1970s, will make a very rare personal appearance at Museum of the Moving Image, on Sunday, November 13, at 6:30 p.m., as part of the day-long program 'Mario Montez, Superstar.'

Fashion in Film Festival Held at Museum of the Moving Image 4/15-24
by Gabrielle Sierra - Mar 31, 2011

Museum of the Moving Image will present Birds of Paradise, a special edition of the London-based Fashion in Film Festival that will focus on costume as a form of cinematic spectacle.

MTC To Hold Samuel J. Friedman Dedication Ceremony 9/4
by BWW News Desk - Sep 4, 2008

The Tony Award-winning Manhattan Theatre Club (Peter J. Solomon, Chairman of the Board; Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) will dedicate its Broadway theatre the 'Samuel J. Friedman Theatre' on Thursday, September 4.

MTC To Hold Samuel J. Friedman Dedication Ceremony 9/4
by Faetra Petillo - Aug 11, 2008

The Tony Award-winning Manhattan Theatre Club (Peter J. Solomon, Chairman of the Board; Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) will dedicate its Broadway theatre the 'Samuel J. Friedman Theatre' on Thursday, September 4.

MTC Renames Biltmore Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Jun 19, 2008

The Tony Awardâ-winning Manhattan Theatre Club (Peter J. Solomon, Chairman of the Board; Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) today announced it will rename its Broadway house, the landmarked Biltmore Theatre, the 'Samuel J. Friedman Theatre' in recognition of the pioneering Broadway publicist.