Though often humorous, his work was also deeply political, like the performance piece "El Puerto Rican Embassy," which he staged throughout New York with the photographer Adal Maldonado.
Now in the midst of its 32d tour of parks, playgrounds, parking lots and streets, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater is staging "The Beautiful Soul of Don Damian," a dramatization of five stories by Juan Bosch.
Now in its fourth wave, our team is following up with these same youth and their caregivers to help us understand the unique risk and protective factors faced by the Puerto Rican community across various stages of development.
Puerto Rican star Chayanne will also be debuting his new single on the Miami stage.
In the final minutes of the Latin Grammys' three-hour broadcast last night, Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi sauntered on stage for an acoustic rendition of Despacito, the pop-meets-reggaeton juggernaut he popularised with the help of Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber.
Contestants who acted giddy and star-struck by the judges were showcased, including Tiffany, a New Jersey woman of Puerto Rican descent, who strode onto the stage, took one look at Ms. Lopez and started to cry.
It was a night of true musical splendor with performances by the real Mambo Kings: Mario Bauzá led his Afro-Cuban orchestra; the great Puerto Rican percussionist Tito Puente mounted the stage and, of course, brought down the house.
Ms. Diaz seized on voter concerns about taxes and a public relations misstep by Mr. Vas, who invoked several municipal ordinances to oppose the staging of a Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Enter stage left, a young Puerto Rican Tony Award-winning songwriter, a fresh new musical in hand: Lin-Manuel Miranda's new show Hamilton.
In fact, most of the original film's Puerto Rican characters were played by white actors, setting the stage for a slew of whitewashing controversies in stage productions across the globe in the decades that followed.
