HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mention HOLA members or Friends of HOLA who are getting acting, performance or similarly artistic gigs and/or recognition in the media. The names of HOLA members and Friends of HOLA are listed below in boldface. To see what other HOLA members are doing currently, click here.

The IV Festival de Teatro Hispano del Comisionado is currently taking place throughout the month of March at the Comisionado Dominicano de Cultura in EEUU in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. As per Spaniard and Latin-American custom, the theater festival is dedicated each year to a living artist. This year, the festival is dedicated to actress Denia Brache (see below), shown at right. For more information about the theater festival, click here (blog is in Spanish).

Joselyn Martínez guest-starred on an webisode of "Studio Heads" (see below). For more information, or to see the complete first season (six webisodes) of the webseries, click here.

Michael Díaz (also known by his nom de comédie Juan Bago), shown at left, has been quite busy as of late. Besides creating comedic viral videos and working on "Studio Heads" (the webseries showing its complete first season exclusively on Remezcla that he co-created, co-produced, writes and in which he stars), he is also co-starring in another webseries-- "Henry - A Web Series". Created, written and directed by Alain Alfaro, the webseries stars Jaime Fernández in the titular role. To find out more stuff Díaz- and Bago-related, click here and here.

Johanna Ramírez, shown at right, booked a role in a bilingual (English/Spanish) industrial for the Food and the Drug Administration after she received a casting announcement from the e-mail announcements that HOLA sends to its members and self-submitted.

Arte y Teatro en Nueva York (ARTENY) wrote a blog about the happenings in Latino theater this winter. Highlighted in the blog written by Héctor Luis Rivera are HOLA members Denia Brache (see above), Éric-Dominique Pérez, A.B. Lugo, Paul Montoya, Caridad Del Valle, Yvette Quintero, Claudio Weisz, Roy Arias, Edna Lee Figueroa, and Juan Villarreal, among others. To read the blog (which is in Spanish), click here.

Judy Torres, shown at left, will be singing as she headlines a solo engagement at The Cutting Room (located in midtown Manhattan). The svelte chanteuse will perform her hits as well as contemporary dance hits and standards as she is backed up by the band Mirage Music as she performs two sets on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. For more information (or to get tickets), click here. Her new single "Beautiful Life" is currently available on iTunes and Amazon for purchase. To buy the single, the cover of which is shown at right, and to listen to a sample of it and its varying remixes, click here. Also, due to popular demand, she will be one of the headliners of the Freestyle and Old School Extravaganza concert is returning to the world famous Radio City Music Hall. The concert, scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 28, 2014 (tickets go on sale at Friday, March 7, 2014). For more information about this concert (or about where one can see this actress-singer-radio personality next), click here.

If you are an HOLA member or a Friend of HOLA and want to submit a bochinche item, send us an e-mail. If you live in the New York metropolitan area and want to be an HOLA member, why not join? If you live outside the New York metropolitan area and want to be an HOLA member, you can find out more information on how to do so, by clicking here. If you are not a Friend of HOLA, why not become one?