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Juan Valenzuela to stage world premiere of Pedro Pietri’s Last Request at Teatro Latea
Summary
Director Juan Valenzuela says Pedro Pietri’s previously unproduced play Last Request will receive its world premiere April 9–26, 2026 at Teatro Latea as part of Teatro Fest 2026; Valenzuela recounts receiving the script from Pietri decades earlier and describes the play’s themes and staging.
Juan Valenzuela, director of the new production, said the world premiere of Last Request, a play by the late New York–Puerto Rican poet Pedro Pietri, will run April 9–26, 2026 at Teatro Latea as part of Teatro Fest 2026. "The last request, una obra premier mundial de Pedro Pietri," Valenzuela said, adding that "mucha gente no sabe que Pedro Pietri escribió teatro."
Valenzuela told the Diálogo Abierto host Javier E. Gómez that he first met Pietri in 1974 in San Francisco and that…
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