48Hours In... Harlem Collaborates With Pregones Theater For 3rd 48HOURS IN… EL BRONX

After 8 years, the producing collaborative Harlem9 has played to packed houses, picking up an OBIE award along the way in 2014. This April, Harlem9 collaborates with Pregones Theater PRTT, a Latino arts organization in the Bronx for the 3rd time to present "48HOURS IN... EL BRONX". The two organizations first collaborated in December 2016 and again in April of 2018. This year, the theme features the evocative works of 6 photographers and 6 poets that features or makes reference to a Bronx train station, and/or a neighborhood readily identified with a particular station.

One performance will culminate the 48-hour weekend on Sunday, April 14, 2019 at Pregones Theater in the Bronx at 7PM. Tickets are $17.50 - $50 available on http://www.harlem9.org/elbronx2019

Latino Artists from the Pregones Theater PRTT community will be participating in the April weekend.

The evening will feature the work of playwrights: Christin Eve Cato, Guadalís Del Carmen, Pablo García Gámez, Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, Beto O'Byrne, and Peggy Robles-Alvarado. Directors participating in the weekend: Gineiris Garcia, Laura Gómez, Louis DeVaughn Nelson, Janilka Romero, Gama Valle, and Fernando Vieira. Actors included in the weekend: *Jorge William Donoso, Kimberly Gómez, Luis Herrera, Sofia Klimovsky, Nicolle Marquez, Rebecca Murillo, Zahyde Pietri, Luis Ponce, Diana Pou, Krystal Pou, Daniel Prado, *Arisael Rivera, Joaquin M. Rosa, Camila Pérez Santiago, Jacob Sebastián, Carlos Valencia, Yaraní del Valle, and Igor Correa Wetter.

Following years of enterprising activity on stage and in the community, Pregones Theater and Puerto Rican Traveling Theater recently merged into a single Latino arts organization with performance venues in The Bronx and Manhattan. The transformation builds upon congruence of mission, values, and programs, and sustained engagement of a growing network of diverse artists and audiences throughout and beyond New York City. Moving forward, Pregones/PRTT champions a cultural legacy of broad impact through (1) creation and performance of original musical theater and plays rooted in Puerto Rican/Latino cultures and (2) presentation of other artists who share our twin commitment to the arts and civic enrichment.

Harlem9 is an arts organization comprised of 6 producing entities that have come together in Harlem to explore the past, present, and future of black culture and celebrate the rich history of storytelling within the African Diaspora. Garlia Cornelia Jones-Ly, Bryan E. Glover, E. Michael Lockley, Jonathan McCrory, and Liberation Theatre Company (Sandra A. Daley-Sharif and Spencer Scott Barros) are the producers that comprise Harlem9.

For more information, please visit www.harlem9.org

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