Castillo News

With SXSW 2019 just around the corner, we are excited to reveal five Keynotes as well as more Featured Speakers across 25 Tracks of curated Conference programming.

From the Motor City to the Valley of the Sun: My conversation with Director Ralph Remington and Executive Director David Hemphill and their conjoined forces bringing Dominique Morisseau's Detroit '67 to Phoenix.

El joven pianista mexicano Sebastián Espinosa, egresado del Conservatorio Nacional de Música, hará su debut con la Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (OCBA) en el programa 3 de su Temporada 2019, el jueves 14 y domingo 17 de febrero, bajo la dirección de su titular José Luis Castillo.

Ya se han dado a conocer los nominados a los Premios Union de Actores y Actrices que se entregaran el proximo 11 de marzo, y BILLY ELLIOT se encuentra entre los favoritos en la seccion de teatro con dos nominaciones.

“Con mi trabajo he tenido la fortuna de representar a mi país en muchos foros internacionales. Hasta en los lugares más recónditos del planeta se conoce y se respeta el arte mexicano, desde los aztecas hasta el arte contemporáneo. Yo, en ese sentido, mantengo nuestra gran tradición escultórica y esa necesidad de ser mexicano en el arte”.

Paper Mill Playhouse presents Pushcart Players in "Stone Soup and other Stories" on Wednesday, February 27th at 10:00am. Pushcart is the Emmy-nominated educational theater for families, now in its 45th year of bringing something special to every young audience.

Para su segundo programa de la Temporada 2019, la Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (OCBA) contará con el neolonés Jesús Medina Villareal como director huésped, quien tiene más de 30 años de trayectoria, y con el pianista polaco Marian Sobula como solista invitado, uno de los músicos más destacados de su generación tanto en Europa como en América.

What is Black theater? How is it defined and by whom? What is the relationship between the Black dramatist, their creation and the Black community at large? 'Looking for Leroy' by Larry Muhammad explores these questions through the legacy of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, who was one of the most important dramatists the 20th century and who defined the role of the Black playwright for our age. This two-character play imagines five encounters between Baraka, a literary lion now in his 60s, and an intern in his 20s who idolizes him, challenges him and aims to be like him.

Nearly two years after an impressive debut at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theater at A.R.T, Broken Box Mime Theater is back with SKIN, a collection of fifteen short pieces which alternate between the playful and the political. In Reverse (which dazzled this reviewer), consisted of just ten pieces. These physical storytellers, who come from diverse performing arts backgrounds (none of which, remarkably, include dance) have a palpable bond, perhaps because they communicate outside the sphere of language. Acting depends upon listening, but in mime, the 'listening' takes a more visceral and amorphous form. This accounts, I think, for the intimacy one witnesses in BXBR. It's easy for mime to miss the mark, at least if one associates meaning with hitting one's marks. These performers must trust each other to help make each action intelligible. Meaning itself, one might say, is collaborative. There is much to admire in Skin, and under Becky Baumwoll's direction, the performers continue to amaze with their ability to convey such depth and precision of feeling with recourse only to facial expressions and body language.

A one night benefit reading of Trial, a new play by Ashley Griffin(Snow, Twilight the Unauthorized Musical Parody), and directed by Lori Petty(Orange is New Black, A League of Their Own) will take place on Thursday March 28, 2019, at 7:00 P.M., at the Krasnoff Theatre - Tilles Center of C.W. Post College, in Brookville, New York.

Los gatos han sido fuente de inspiración para crear, desde leyendas heroicas, hasta relatos de terror.A partir de la necesidad de explorar esta figura milenaria, Gerardo Castillo escribió una serie de anécdotas De la vida secreta de los gatos y De la vida privada de los gatos.

La Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (OCBA) iniciará su temporada 2019 con un concierto formado por las obras Sospiri, op. 70, de Edward Elgar; Serenata para violín, arpa y percusión, de Leonard Bernstein, y Ballet Carmen, para cuerdas y percusión, de Rodion Shchedrin.

A mother's love knows no boundaries... After a five-year self-imposed absence, Julio Cesar, a young man with a buried secret, returns home after the death of his father.  Over the course of two evenings, mother and son, two estranged generations of Dominicans living on New York's Upper West Side, attempt to rekindle the love and appreciation for each other and their roots. However, unexpected revelations threaten to destroy an already thin bond between mother and child in Dominican-American Marco Antonio Rodriguez's riveting award-winning comedy/drama Ashes of Light  ("La Luz de un Cigarrillo") performed in English (sprinkled with Spanish) for the first time in New York. 

Bajo la premisa de la música como vehículo de unión y cohesión social, la Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (OCBA) llevará a cabo su primera temporada de conciertos 2019, del 3 de febrero al 22 de junio, con un total de 17 programas, en los que se interpretarán 31 conciertos.

Rehearsals are underway for Prince William Little Theatre's 'Anne of Green Gables,' a charming play by L.M. Montgomery and Sylvia Ashby, produced by arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH.

This March, the more than 20 organizations in eleven cities nationwide that compose the Poetry Coalition will launch “What Is It, Then, Between Us?: Poetry & Democracy,” the coalition's third annual programming initiative. For this collaborative effort, organizations will offer a range of events and publications that speak to this timely theme. This programming is made possible in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation secured by the Academy of American Poets.

Set to open at the Atrium in Rancho Mirage on January 23 and run through February 17, 2019, White is a funny, 90-minute play that draws on both life and art to examine issues of racism, sexism, gender and identity - a perfect fit for CVRep's 2018/19 seasonal theme of 'a handful of isms.'

El Ensamble del Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea (Cepromusic) iniciará sus actividades del año con el concierto Aniversarios, que conmemorará a destacados compositores mexicanos y uno extranjero.

The award-winning Broken Box Mime Theater's (BKBX) Off-Broadway production of SKIN, a collection of new collaborative pieces created by the company's resident ensemble,opens Thursday, January 24th at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres (502 West 53rd Street at 10th Avenue).

Entre pelucas blancas, vestidos y trajes de colores, además de un estilo neoclásico francés fusionado con el steampunk, regresa Las preciosas ridículas de Molière al Teatro del BosqueJulio Castillo del Centro Cultural del Bosque.