Yours truly, Maegan la Mala, is a featured poet at one of the events and will attend as many events as I can (Before I was Blogger, activist, and Mami, I was a poet).

Hope to see some of you there.

Pandora's ten diverse monologues, seven short films woven
together with music to represent different queer identities from
diverse ethnic and identity backgrounds (bisexual, transgender,
lesbian, questioning, homeless, immigrant, etc.) Its debut marks a
breakthrough in visibility and expression in the Latin@ queer community.

For information on tickets check after the jump.

Felicidades to Lin-Manuel and the entire cast and crew (now if anyone would like to throw me some tickets so I could see the show.....)

Via / The Latin Americanist

“In Touch” reports that Randy Blair, Timothy Michael Drucker and Zach Redler, all 24, have penned Perez Hilton Saves the Universe (or at Least the Greater Los Angeles Area): The Musical. The show will poke fun at celebrities like Britney Spears and Kathy Griffin — who is featured as a villain — and follows Perez as he saves L.A. from nuclear disaster.

Good luck with that. In the Heights it will not be.

Via / Guanabee

Image Via / Gawker

The talk was introduced by the director of Teatro Stage Fest, Susana Tubert, who said that the artists in the panel were "not Latino artist, rather artists who happened to be Latino" (a line that doesn't sit well with me- as if one has nothing to do with the other or as if being Latino just happens to be with no wider implication).

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the mind behind the words and music to the Tony nominated In the Heights, garnered the most applause, while the mostly white theater going crowd seemed unfamiliar with Eugenio Derbez, who ironically enough had a few Mexican farandula cameras anxiously waiting outside.

The first talk at 6pm, invites us to go behind the curtain with Latino talent making inroads on the Great White Way. Participating are Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Graciela Daniele
("Ragtime," "Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life," "Annie Get Your Gun"),
producer-director-actor Eugenio Derbez ("Latinologues"), actress Bianca Marroquín ("Chicago," "The Pajama Game") and composer-writer-performer Lin-Manuel Miranda (from the Tony nominated "In The Heights")

Michael Urie -- who plays camp assistant Marc St. James -- told a British radio station that this fantastic idea is turning into a reality.
“They do want to do an "Ugly Betty" musical, a full-on Broadway musical, but it’s all hush-hush. I think it would be great, and they should use the cast from the show. I think we would all do it, although we maybe don’t dance and sing as well as professional singers and dancers. I think it would be fun for us to do it for a while, and then they could get real people in. They definitely want to do an episode that is a musical one, but then they want to do a full stage show. I think it’s a great idea. It would definitely work.”

Via / You Tube,Jezebel, and Oh No They Didn't

“In the Heights,” a rap, hip-hop and salsa flavored musical about Latino families in Washington Heights, led the Tony nominations, which were announced on Tuesday morning, with 13 nods, including two for Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show’s 28-year-old creator and star.

Via / NYT

Via / El Diario La Prensa

I am not a huge musical theatre fan but I've heard that Banderas is quite good on stage and playing a historical Latin lover no less? Plus with an award winning musical director and an award winning script writer, how bad can it be?

Via / Que Pasa

Se trata de una historia muy sencilla y simple, popular, que no se plantea contar nada diferente porque sobre Selena Quintanilla (1971-1995) todo está dicho. Lo que sí queríamos era no hacer del asesinato el momento más trascendente, si bien es imposible obviar su relevancia.

Via / Vida Latina

What are you going to tell God when you die and have to explain what you did with the beautiful body he gave you as a baby?

Via / Cotorreando

Via / Latino Flavored Productions