Starring in the lead male role as Sam is Mexico City-born actor Alejandro de la Madrid, who’s 27-year career trajectory spans theater, television and film, including portraying musical icon José José in the 60-episode Netflix series
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Founded in 2002, the Midi Company has performed in both Mexico and France, as well as in Spain, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, China, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, French Guyana and Reunion Island
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) opened a monthlong symposium of Japanese-Mexican art on Saturday, Aug. 20. The multidisciplinary symposium, which is set to run through Sunday, Oct. 2, includes presentations of Japanese theater, music, cinema, visual arts and a video art installation, as well as the first International Colloquium of Art and Culture Studies Ibero
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO As part of the celebration of her 92nd birthday, renowned Mexican actress Teresa Selma will star in a special one-night-only performance of “El Consultorio de la Dra. Spellman” (“The Office of Dr. Spellman”), a one-person monologue written by Jaliscan actor and playwright Alberto Estrella about a psychoanalyst who takes on the personalities of all her patients, at
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Colombian theatrical company Teatro Vreve will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a presentation of three short plays in Mexico City’s El Chopo Museum on Friday, May 6, Saturday, May 7, and Sunday, May 8. The trio of works explore the territories of contemporary theatricalities, transitioning from text theater to action theater through the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart), a subsidiary of the country’s Culture Secretariat, premiered on Thursday, April 28, an abstract, multimedia production of “The Szechuan School of Human Pain,” a powerful play based on the novel with the same name by Mexican-Peruvian author Mario Bellatin. Set in imperial China, the play, which includes
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s annual International Theater Festival (FIT) will open at the Capilla Gótica of the Centro Cultural Helénico with an all-female interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s fast-paced “Lady Windermere’s Fan” (titled simply “El Abanico,” or “The Fan.” in Spanish), on Saturday, Nov. 21. The four-act comedy is being directed by Mexican thespian Michell Amaro, who studied
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Mexican Spanish-language production of Tim Rice’s award-winning 1970 rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar” (called “Jesucristo Súper Estrella,” in Spanish ) – jointly produced by longtime Mexican theatrical regisseur Alejandro Gou Boy and U.S. film and television star Armando Reyes (“Chicago P.D.”) – is a rare thing in the world of modern theatrical revivals: It manages to
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s a story that has inspired generations for millenniums and a musical that has awed audiences for more than 40 years, and, now, after nearly two decades in ausencia, Andrew Lloyd Weber’s and Tim Rice’s award-winning 1970 rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar” is returning to Mexico with an all-star cast for a limited 20 appearances in Mexico
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