If boxing is a metaphor for life, as many scribes, boxing fans, and websites proclaim (just type “boxing as a metaphor for life” and you’ll find over 1.5 million results alone), then for the four boxers at the heart of Franky D. Gonzalez’s play That Must Be the Entrance to Heaven, life has delivered some […]
Author Archives: Alejandro A. Riera
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From cab culture to throuples with the Destinos festival
What Modesto “Flako” Jimenez misses the most about his days as a cabdriver in New York City are the conversations with his passengers, fellow cab drivers, and even the silent riders who just wanted to get from point A to point B. “Even that gave me the moment to paint my story. Like, why are […]
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Peter Malmö gives a Wisconsin makeover to Pedro Páramo
Considered a precursor to magical realism (Gabriel García Márquez claims that reading it gave him the key to mapping out the story for One Hundred Years of Solitude), Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel Pedro Páramo demands far more attention from the reader than its slim 120-plus pages seem to suggest at first. Not an easy breeze […]
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Subconscious romance
“What is it like to be a character in a dream?,” asks the protagonist of Waking Life (2001), Richard Linklater’s first stab at rotoscope animation. The question lies at the heart of clown, mime, and musician Marvin Quijada’s The Dream King, Teatro Vista’s new production codirected by ensemble member Sandra Marquez and Physical Theater Festival […]