Signature Theatre's world premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s stage adaptation of her eponymous memoir, officially opened November 6 following previews that began October 18 in the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre. Read reviews here.
Hudes' second play in her Premiere Residency, following the 2016 world premiere of Daphne’s Dive, continues Off-Broadway through November 27. The playwright also directs.
The cast includes Zabryna Guevara (Water by the Spoonful, Emergence), Yani Marin (Jack Ryan, Empire), Samora la Perdida (Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Jack Goes Boating), and Marilyn Torres (Water by The Spoonful, Daredevil).
Go inside opening night below:
Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
Lin-Manuel Mirandaat opening night of My Broken Language
Luis A. Miranda Jr. at opening night of My Broken Language
Luis A. Miranda Jr. and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
Luis A. Miranda Jr. and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
Ebony Williams at opening night of My Broken Language
Ebony Williams at opening night of My Broken Language
Quiara Alegría Hudes at opening night of My Broken Language
Daphne Rubin-Vega at opening night of My Broken Language
Daphne Rubin-Vega at opening night of My Broken Language
Samora Ia Perdida at opening night of My Broken Language
Zabryna Guevara at opening night of My Broken Language
Zabryna Guevara at opening night of My Broken Language
Yani Marin at opening night of My Broken Language
Quiara Alegría Hudes and family at opening night of My Broken Language
Quiara Alegría Hudes (center) and family at opening night of My Broken Language
Samora Ia Perdida at opening night of My Broken Language
Daphne Rubin-Vega at opening night of My Broken Language
Zabryna Guevara at opening night of My Broken Language
Marilyn Torres at opening night of My Broken Language
Ariacne Trujillo Durand at opening night of My Broken Language
Luis A. Miranda Jr. at opening night of My Broken Language
Anne del Castillo and Erik Bottcher at opening night of My Broken Language
Anne del Castillo and Erik Bottcher at opening night of My Broken Language
Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
Vanessa Nadal and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
Timothy J. McClimon and Paige Evans at opening night of My Broken Language
Ileana Ferreras Lacamoire and Alex Lacamoire at opening night of My Broken Language
Paula Vogel at opening night of My Broken Language
Alex Lacamoire at opening night of My Broken Language
Quiara Alegría Hudes and daughter at opening night of My Broken Language
Quiara Alegría Hudes and daughter at opening night of My Broken Language
Jimmy Smits at opening night of My Broken Language
Ebony Williams, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Ariacne Trujillo Durand, Yadira Correa, Marilyn Torres, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Zabryna Guevara, Samora Ia Perdida and Yani Marin at opening night of My Broken Language
Ebony Williams, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Ariacne Trujillo Durand, Yadira Correa, Marilyn Torres, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Zabryna Guevara, Samora Ia Perdida and Yani Marin at opening night of My Broken Language
Anne del Castillo and Doug Chittenden at opening night of My Broken Language
Luz Towns-Miranda, Ebony Williams and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
Paige Evans, Timothy Little, Lori Kramer, Susan Weiner, Donna Walker-Kuhne, Timothy J. McClimon and Doug Chittenden at opening night of My Broken Language
The production collides monologue, literary reading, music, and movement in its depiction of an author growing up in el barrio in Philadelphia during the '90s, in a Puerto Rican family held together by women.
The production also has choreography by Ebony Williams, music supervision by Alex Lacamoire, music by Ariacne Trujillo Duran, scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting design by Jen Schriever, and sound design by Leah Gelpe. The cultural specialist is Ann James with Kaitlin Leigh Marsh as production stage manager, Julia Perez as assistant stage manager, and Rudi Goblen as assoociate director with casting by Caparelliotis Casting's Dave Caparelliotis and Joe Gery.
Each
scene represented in the play focuses, in multifarious ways, on women’s
bodies as sites and origins of meaning, expression, and exchange.
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