Word: nuyorican
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Julia Roberts' red-carpet tour. Now he's commanding his own spotlight with a revelatory performance in Pinero. In this sordid, vibrant and true story, Bratt stars as Miguel Pinero, the Puerto Rican playwright, unrehabilitated ex-con, junkie and cautionary figure. In 1988, 14 years after founding Manhattan's Nuyorican Poets Cafe and gathering acclaim for his Tony-nominated play Short Eyes, Pinero died of cirrhosis...
...work is flavored with hip-hop, but she enjoys throwing curves: she ends her show speaking in a British accent that leaves the audience wondering whether she's from Brixton or Brooklyn. She was actually born in Baltimore, and started participating in poetry slams at New York City's Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Her poems became monologues, and they in turn became Surface Transit, which Jones has been honing since 1998, and will start performing in June at New York City's P.S. 122. It's a very public way for her to sort out the multicultural themes of her life...