Carlos Diaz News

The full cast for the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of the award-winning smash hit musical THE BODYGUARD opening at the Theatre Royal Glasgow on Monday 3 December has been announced.

It was an enchanting gathering with the Talley family at the Five Towns College Performing Arts Center's dynamite production of Lanford Wilson's 'Fifth Of July.' This Broadway classic was beautifully and intimately brought back to life by director Milton Justice. It was as if we were members of the Talley family, sitting in their backyard watching and witnessing our relatives, played by an amazing troop of fresh young actors, mix family squabble with laughter and tears.

"At the turn of the century, worlds will collide in America!" The Axelrod Performing Arts Center begins its inaugural season as a professional theater with Luis Salgado's beautiful new staging of Ragtime the Musical. See the video of the Axelrod company in final rehearsals below!

RAGTIME will play at The Axelrod Performing Arts Center (APAC) in Deal Park, NJ. March 3-25.

Young Collectors Contemporary, presented by Young Arts Patrons, has confirmed over 20 artists for the 2018 fair, running March 22-25, 2018 at Crosstown Arts. Young Collectors Contemporary is produced by Young Arts Patrons to serve as a hub for artists and contemporary art enthusiasts to exchange ideas and collect works from emerging contemporary artists. Part exhibition, part party, and part contemporary arts conference the event is for emerging artists, collectors, and the arts community.

The Axelrod Performing Arts Center (APAC) in Deal Park, NJ, in cooperation with Salgado Productions, will bring Ragtime, The Musical to the stage from March 3-25, in a new production directed and choreographed by Luis Salgado, who is returning to the theater after last year's successful production of In the Heights.

Artadia and the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) are pleased to announceCarolin Eidner as the recipient of the 2017 Miami NADA Artadia Award, a $5,000 unrestricted, merit-based Award granted to one artist exhibiting at the fair. Eidner's work is exhibited at Natalia Hug, booth 7.15 at NADA Miami.

Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced the line-up today for The Public's Astor Anniversary Season at their landmark downtown home on Lafayette Street, celebrating 50 years of new work at 425 Lafayette.

With the United States reopening its relations with Cuba, it only seems natural that the Kennedy Center would host a top Cuban theatre company, and its ambitious director, as part of its ongoing internationally-oriented Spotlight on Directors series.

This spring, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing arts highlights the work of five of the theater's preeminent directors from across the globe: Robert Lepage, Carlos Diaz, Sulayman Al Bassam, Peter Brook, and Lev Dodin. Kennedy Center audiences will experience a theatrical feast of visionary productions of both classic and contemporary plays offering a truly global perspective on theater today.

South Florida Cultural Consortium (SFCC) has awarded three Broward County artists through its Visual and Media Artists Program.

Rather than focusing on the ruins or economic distress people have come to expect with Detroit photography, Obscura Land's inaugural project, Volume 1: Detroit, highlights photographers whose connection to the city influences their conceptually oriented images. The 19 Detroit photographers featured in this volume include some of the most celebrated names in the city's photo community. This Detroit project is only available until November 30, 2016 at obscuraland.com.

 NBC UNIVERSO, will exclusively air the dramatic second leg of two upcoming CONCACAF FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 qualifying matches: Bermuda vs.Guatemala; and El Salvador vs. St. Kitts & Nevis. 

One of the most exciting new voices on the family music scene, Andrés Salguero, will release a new album -- an ebullient celebration of Latin culture titled ¡Uno, Dos, Tres con Andrés! -- in April, to honor El Día de los Niños.

Award-winning Colombian musician Andrés Salguero brings an impeccable authenticity to his debut kids'/family CD, ¡Uno, Dos, Tres con Andrés!. The album will be released in April, to honor El Día de los Niños.

Luis Bravo's FOREVER TANGO, the sizzling international sensation, returns to Boston for seven performances only, playing today, October 29 - Saturday, November 2 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. FOREVER TANGO comes to Boston direct from an unprecedented fourth run on Broadway, following highly acclaimed tours in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, throughout the United States and the Americas. Press night is set for tonight, October 29 at 7:30 pm.

Luis Bravo's FOREVER TANGO, the sizzling international sensation, returns to Boston for seven performances only, playing Tuesday, October 29 - Saturday, November 2 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. FOREVER TANGO comes to Boston direct from an unprecedented fourth run on Broadway, following highly acclaimed tours in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, throughout the United States and he Americas. Press night is set for Tuesday, October 29 at 7:30 pm.

Winner of the HOLA award for outstanding new play and the ACE award for best director/drama, both for La Luz De Un Cigarrillo (The Light Of A Cigarette), Marco Antonio Rodriguez's new play, Barcelo On Ice, is a finalist in Spanish Repertory's Nuestras Voices playwriting competition and will receive a free public reading (in Spanish) tonight, November 19, 6:30 pm. Barcelo On Ice competed with over 75 other works and was selected as one of only nine finalists!

Winner of the HOLA award for outstanding new play and the ACE award for best director/drama, both for La Luz De Un Cigarrillo (The Light Of A Cigarette), Marco Antonio Rodriguez's new play, Barcelo On Ice, is a finalist in Spanish Repertory's Nuestras Voices playwriting competition and will receive a free public reading (in Spanish) on Monday, November 19, 6:30 pm. Barcelo On Ice competed with over 75 other works and was selected as one of only nine finalists!

Producers David Maldonado and Juan Toro announced today the Off Broadway premiere of La Barbería (The Barbershop), a new Spanglish comedic drama by David Maldonado (Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz, Quien Mato A Hector Lavoe) and Ari Maniel Cruz.