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.

2016 HOLA Awards recipient Pablo Andrade, shown at right, was featured in the daily Venezuelan newspaper El Diario de Caracas and the Venezuelan blog Informe 21, where he spoke about his upcoming class of Uta Hagen technique (taught with María Fontanals) at the world renowned HB Studio (the first to be taught there in the Spanish language). To read the article and blog, which are in Spanish, click here and here.

Yvette Quintero, shown at left, was featured in the Héctor Luis Sin Censura blog (written and edited by 2016 HOLA Awards recipient Héctor Luis Rivera), where it highlighted her upcoming performance of the Tomás Urtusástegui solo show La bruta bruja Bruna. Directed by 2016 HOLA Performer's Choice recipient J. Edgar Mozoub, the Group of the Arts production will be presented at the En Un Acto Theater and Film Festival, taking place in November at the Broadway Blackbox Theater in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. To read the blog, which is in Spanish, click here.

2016 HOLA Awards honoree Víctor Cruz, Lucio Fernández, Iliana Guibert and 2016 HOLA Awards recipient A.B. Lugo, shown above, from left to right, were featured in the Héctor Luis Sin Censura blog (written and edited by 2016 HOLA Awards recipient Héctor Luis Rivera), where their participation in the upcoming 2016 HOLAfestival was mentioned. To find out more about the 2016 HOLAfestival, scheduled to take place on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at Teatro LATEA, located in The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (home to HOLA) in Manhattan's Loísaida neighborhood, click here and here. To read the blog, which is in Spanish (and which also mentions Liza Colón-Zayas and Natalia Ivana Escobar), click here.

Lissette Montolío and Maritza Vives, shown above, from left to right, were featured in the Héctor Luis Sin Censura blog (written and edited by 2016 HOLA Awards recipient Héctor Luis Rivera), where her upcoming performance in the play Hay un país en el mundo, was highlighted. Presented by D'Ramos Productions, the play was adapted by Domingo Ramos (who also directed) from the poem of the same title and the novel Buen viaje, Pancho Valentín (both by Pedro Mir), the production is scheduled to take place in December at the Teatro Rafael Villalona at El Comisionado Dominicano de Cultura de EEUU, located in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. To read the blog, which is in Spanish, click here.

2016 HOLA Performer's Choice recipient Elizardi Castro, shown above left, will be performing in El Show de "El Lucio". An evening of standup comedy/solo theater with a live band (Orquesta Afinke), the show is produced by 2016 HOLA Performer's Choice recipient Mike Oquendo (of Mike Oquendo Events), shown above right, and will feature special guest Sara Contreras. The production will take place in November at the White Plains Performing Arts Center (WPPAC) in White Plains, New York. For more information, click here or here. In addition, Castro will perform in Se Habla Español. Billed as "a comedy about language and the people who speak it", the comedy show is also produced by Oquendo and will take place in December at the Athenæum Theater in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, 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?