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Washington, DC - GALA Hispanic Theatre continues its season with the Washington, DC premiere of Hecho en Puelto Rico, written and performed by Ángel Vázquez, one of Puerto Rico’s most popular performers. Mr. Vázquez returns to the GALA stage after having appeared in Puerto Rico En…Cantado in 2003. Hecho en Puelto Rico is a funny and touching piece that will be presented only in Spanish on December 2 and 3, 2016 at 8 pm at GALA Theatre, 3333 14th Street, NW. A post-performance discussion with the artist will follow each evening’s presentation.
In this poignant tale of discovery and pride, a student prepares to graduate and leave Puerto Rico to escape the economic crisis. As he arranges to leave, the young man unearths his cultural roots through the lives of such noted men and women in the island’s history as José de Diego, Julia de Burgos, Eugenio María de Hostos, and Roberto Clemente. With great comic flair, Vázquez reveals both the promise and the pain of migration to the mainland from the island.
Ángel Vázquez, a former member of Los Juanes del Pueblo, is one of Puerto Rico’s leading writers and television and film performers who appeared in GALA’s Puerto Rico En…Cantado. He premiered Hecho en Puelto Rico in Puerto Rico and has toured to Chicago, Orlando, New York, and Texas. His other theater credits include The Sound of Music, Cofresí, Macho Menos, Puerto Rico Fuá, A View from the Bridge, and Quién Mató a Héctor Lavoe? He has appeared in several telenovelas, including General Hospital and Señora Tentación, and has performed in such television comedies as Politiqueando and Mi familia.. Mr. Vázquez also has appeared in the films Assassins, Princess Protection Program, Vasos de Papel, and El Beso y Luisa Capetillo, among others.
TICKET INFORMATION
General admission tickets to Hecho en Puelto Rico are $30. Tickets for groups of 10 or more are $22 each. FOR TICKETS, CALL (202) 234-7174 or visit www.galatheatre.org.
Parking is available at a discount price of $4 in the Giant Food garage behind the theater on Park Road, NW with validation in GALA lobby. GALA Theatre is one block north of the Columbia Heights metro station on the Green and Yellow lines.
GALA is a NPN Partner of the National Performance Network (NPN). This project is made possible in part by support from the NPN Performance Residency Program. Major contributors of NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).
GALA is celebrating its 41st season of presenting the range of Hispanic theatre, music, dance, spoken word, poetry and the visual arts from Latin America, Spain, the Caribbean, and the United States. GALA is supported in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the D.C. Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs, private foundations, corporations and individuals. GALA is a member of Theatre Communications Group, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, the National Performance Network, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and Cultural Capital. GALA is an acronym (Grupo de Artistas Latino Americanos) and should be written in all capital letters. The name of our venue is GALA Theatre. Please refrain from using any other terms.
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