Director

Backed by a 5- piece band, Parrots at the Pagoda is a drag origins story where five queer youths play out their shared obsession with Latin music giant Tito Rodríguez and his lesser-known brother Johnny Rodríguez, standout musician, pioneering drag artist, and owner of legendary El Cotorrito club in Puerto Rico.

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Parrots at the Pagoda

Pregones Theater

The story: 30-something Danny visits the local kids’ playground —super cute baby in tow— and engages in hilarious banter and park bench philosophizing with another parent. The conversation is peppered by wild asides with Daniel’s superlative and musical alter egos, MC Plátano and the Beatboxer.

Quarter Rican

Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT)

Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater’s original musical play will run Off-Broadway and for the first time at Miriam Colón’s historic Puerto Rican Traveling Theater on west 47th street, Manhattan, on December 1-23. Aloha Boricua dramatizes the one-way transoceanic trip to the Hawaiian archipelago made by poor sugarcane workers and families whose lives were upended by the U.S. military invasion of Puerto Rico and the devastation of Category 4 San Ciriaco Hurricane in 1898-99. Premiered in 2009 under the direction of Jorge B. Merced and composer Desmar Guevara, the show lifts the voices and weaves the stories of five characters in search of home and opportunity, and pays tribute to the myths and truths of the Hawaiian people who welcomed them at the end of their journey.

Jorge B. Merced

Director

Events

Past events

20 - 29 Jun, 2024

Parrots at the Pagoda · Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

Apr 20 - May 7, 2023

Quarter Rican · Puerto Rican Traveling Theater

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