PhotosGo Inside Opening Night of World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize Winner Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language
Samora la Perdida, Zabryna Guevara, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Yani Marin, and Marilyn Torres star for Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre.
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Andrew Gans, Michael Wiltbank
November 09, 2022
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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).
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Photos: Inside Opening Night of Pulitzer Prize Winner Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language
Photos: Inside Opening Night of Pulitzer Prize Winner Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language
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Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
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Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
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Lin-Manuel Mirandaat opening night of My Broken Language
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Luis A. Miranda Jr. at opening night of My Broken Language
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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
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Ebony Williams at opening night of My Broken Language
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Ebony Williams at opening night of My Broken Language
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Quiara Alegría Hudes at opening night of My Broken Language
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Daphne Rubin-Vega at opening night of My Broken Language
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Daphne Rubin-Vega at opening night of My Broken Language
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Samora Ia Perdida at opening night of My Broken Language
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Zabryna Guevara at opening night of My Broken Language
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Zabryna Guevara at opening night of My Broken Language
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Yani Marin at opening night of My Broken Language
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Quiara Alegría Hudes and family at opening night of My Broken Language
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Quiara Alegría Hudes (center) and family at opening night of My Broken Language
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Samora Ia Perdida at opening night of My Broken Language
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Daphne Rubin-Vega at opening night of My Broken Language
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Zabryna Guevara at opening night of My Broken Language
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Marilyn Torres at opening night of My Broken Language
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Ariacne Trujillo Durand at opening night of My Broken Language
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Luis A. Miranda Jr. at opening night of My Broken Language
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Anne del Castillo and Erik Bottcher at opening night of My Broken Language
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Anne del Castillo and Erik Bottcher at opening night of My Broken Language
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Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
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Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
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Vanessa Nadal and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
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Timothy J. McClimon and Paige Evans at opening night of My Broken Language
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Ileana Ferreras Lacamoire and Alex Lacamoire at opening night of My Broken Language
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Paula Vogel at opening night of My Broken Language
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Alex Lacamoire at opening night of My Broken Language
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Quiara Alegría Hudes and daughter at opening night of My Broken Language
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Quiara Alegría Hudes and daughter at opening night of My Broken Language
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Jimmy Smits at opening night of My Broken Language
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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
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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
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Anne del Castillo and Doug Chittenden at opening night of My Broken Language
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Luz Towns-Miranda, Ebony Williams and Lin-Manuel Miranda at opening night of My Broken Language
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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.