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Real Women Have Curves: The Musical will play its final Broadway performance on June 29 following 31 previews and 73 regular performances.

The musical opened April 27 at The James Earl Jones Theatre to mostly favorable reviews, but never really caught on at the box office during a spring that saw huge receipts for star-driven productions. For the week ending June 15, Real Women Have Curves filled only 63% of available receipts, grossing just $365,252 with an average ticket price of $68.63.

Based on the play by Josefina López and the 2002 film adaptation starring America Ferrera, Real Women Have Curves focuses on a group of immigrants working at a small dress-making shop in East L.A. The musical mixes family drama and self-acceptance with larger social themes about immigration, with the threat of deportation ever present.

“We have been working on developing this show for the last five years and could have never predicted that when it made...

Becky G paid a visit to Real Women Have Curves on Broadway just last night. After the show she came backstage to compliment the cast on their performance. She spoke with several cast members about how timely and moving the musical is and mentioned that she saw herself in this story. Check out photos from her appearance below! Real Women Have Curves is now playing at the James Earl Jones Theatre and was nominated for 12 Awards this season, including Tony Awards nominations for Best Score and Best Featured Actress (Justina Machado). It's already a beloved play and a hit film. Now Real Women Have Curve is a Broadway musical. Based on the play by Josefina López, this funny, joyous, and empowering new show features music and lyrics by Grammy winner Joy Huerta...

Exclusive: The Latino Film Institute has announced the lineup for the 24th edition of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (Laliff), from May 28 through June 1, 2025, at the Tcl Chinese Theatres. This year’s festival will feature the return of the Laliff Eastside programming at Regal L.A. Live, the Laliff Film Market, and an expanded Laliff Industry Forum.

The festival will open with Asco: Without Permission, written and directed by Travis Gutiérrez Senger, executive produced by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and featuring special appearances by Zoe Saldaña and Michael Peña. Laliff will close with Serious People, co-written and co-directed by Pasqual Gutierrez and Ben Mullinkosson, which is being shown for the first time on the West Coast.

Asco: Without Permission is a film that tells the story of the pioneering Chicano art collective Asco, whose activism and artistic vision challenged mainstream representation in the art world,...

Evolution Pictures Boards Sci-Fi Horror ‘The Grove’

Exclusive: Evolution Pictures has taken worldwide sales on horror sci-fi movie The Grove. The movie follows a Black Ops soldier who takes part in a mysterious experiment only to find his life descends into madness when he stops taking his meds and a subsequent lakeside getaway becomes a fight for survival. Acoryé White stars and co-wrote and co-directed alongside Patrycja Kępa. The duo, who previously made horror drama Trinket Box, produce under their Anchored Lens banner. The cast also includes Carl Anthony Payne, Psalms, Haley Sims, and Guxci. Evolution Pictures will launch sales at the market in Cannes. Its slate also includes Frank Grillo and Olga Kurylenko thriller Misdirection and Oak, a supernatural horror starring Joey Lauren Adams and Armand Assante. Evolution’s managing director, Kate Hoffman, said, “We are thrilled to partner with Acoryé and Patrycja at Anchored Lens on the first...

Broadway’s 2024-25 season got off to a rather fine start, from the wildly popular and hysterically funny Oh, Mary! to the fabulous splash of Death Becomes Her and the wonderful left-field sleeper Maybe Happy Ending, and wrapped up with some equally excellent season closers like Just In Time and Dead Outlaw.

This compendium of Deadline’s Broadway reviews takes a look at all of them. Use it as a guide for your theater-going, or a sneak peek at what this year’s Tony Awards might have in store on Sunday, June 8.

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical

Opening Night: April 27

Venue: Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre

Direction & Choreography By: Sergio Trujillo

Book: Lisa Loomer with Nell Benjamin, based on the play by Josefina López and the HBO screenplay by Josefina López and George Lavoo

Music & Lyrics By: Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez

Cast: Tatianna Córdoba, Justina Machado,...

In the second act of Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, opening tonight on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre, the women working in a hot, small, ramshackle California dress factory momentarily break free of inhibition and ageism and the body shame over their various sizes and shapes and, following the lead of the defiant, soon-off-for-college Ana (Tatianna Córdoba), one by one strip down to their underwear and sing the title song. It’s a scene that’s funny, tender, compassionate and so well-performed by the eight women on stage that it earned a mid-show standing ovation the night I was in attendance.

The scene also succinctly and entertainingly presents the humor, pride, tenacity and bravery of a Latino community under constant siege and scrutiny.

Unfortunately, there are too few other moments in Real Woman Have Curves that soar like that, that deliver the joy and delight of shaking...

Justina Machado will be back on Broadway this season in the new musical Real Women Have Curves and we have photos from the rehearsal process!

The new musical is based on the beloved movie of the same name, which was actually based on a stage play by Josefina Lopez.

In Real Women Have Curves, it’s the summer of 1987 and Ana Garcia dreams of flying away from East Los Angeles. But when her family receives a make-or-break order for 200 dresses, Ana finds herself juggling her own ambitions, her mother’s expectations, and a community of women all trying to make it work against the odds.

Broadway newcomer Tatianna Córdoba will make her debut starring as ambitious high school senior Ana Garcia, the role that America Ferrera played in the 2002 movie.

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical will begin preview performances on April 1 ahead of an opening night on April 27. Tickets are on sale now!

Update: Real Women Have Curves: The Musical has announced additional members of the production’s Broadway company who will join the previously announced Tatianna Córdoba (Ana) and Justina Machado (Carmen). Newly announced cast members are Florencia Cuenca (Broadway debut) as Estela, Shelby Acosta (1776) as Prima Flaca, Carla Jimenez (Broadway debut) as Pancha, Aline Mayagoitia (Broadway debut) as Itzel, Mason Reeves (Broadway debut) as Henry, Jennifer Sánchez (Elf) as Rosalí, Sandra Valls (Broadway debut) as Prima Fulvia, and Quincy Hampton, Zeus Mendoza, Claudia Mulet, Christopher M. Ramirez, Monica Tulia Ramirez, Shadia Fairuz, Elisa Galindez, and Omar Madden.

Casting for the role of Raúl will be announced at a later date.

Previous, January 16: Justina Machado and Broadway newcomer Tatianna Córdoba have been cast as the leads in the upcoming Broadway production Real Women Have Curves: The Musical, producers announced today.

Justina Machado is heading back to Broadway!

The One Day at a Time and Six Feet Under actress has joined the cast of the upcoming show Real Women Have Curves: The Musical in the role of Carmen Garcia.

The new musical is based on the beloved movie of the same name, which was actually based on a stage play by Josefina Lopez.

In Real Women Have Curves, it’s the summer of 1987 and Ana Garcia dreams of flying away from East Los Angeles. But when her family receives a make-or-break order for 200 dresses, Ana finds herself juggling her own ambitions, her mother’s expectations, and a community of women all trying to make it work against the odds.

Broadway newcomer Tatianna Córdoba will make her debut starring as ambitious high school senior Ana Garcia, the role that America Ferrera played in the 2002 movie.

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Yelyna De León will star in and direct the romantic comedy “20 Pounds to Happiness” from “Real Women Have Curves” writer Josefina López.

Carlo Mendez and Riley Shanahan co-star in the film, which also features Christiana Leucas, Soledad St. Hilaire, Iyari Limon, Rafael Sigler and Tricia Cruz.

“20 Pounds to Happiness” marks De León’s debut as a feature film director. The movie follows a full-figured Latina in a “Real Women Have Curves” support group who must decide between staying loyal to her girlfriends or risking the loss of her dream man. López and De León serve as producers.

De León’s credits as an actor include “Will and Grace,” “Snowfall,” “Ray Donovan,” “Shamelsss,” “A Better Life” and “East Side Story.” She also wrote, produced and acted in the murder mystery film “Murder in the Woods” alongside Danny Trejo.

Mendez is a Cuban-American actor with television roles in “9-1-1,” “Superior Donuts,” “Parks and Recreation...

The Pasadena Playhouse Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director announced today that legendary director, choreographer and producer Kenny Ortega will be the 2015 Diversity Award Artistic Honoree, and Abel Ramirez, founder of Pasadena's El Portal Restaurant and business and cultural leader of the Pasadena community, will be the Community Honoree at the 9th Annual Pasadena Playhouse's Wells Fargo Theatrical Diversity Project fundraising benefit on Sunday, September 13, 2015, in honor of the opening of Josefina Lopez's Real Women Have Curves.

The Pasadena Playhouse announced their 2015-2016 Season today, which includes the award-winning Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez the World Premiere of the new musical Breaking Through with a book by Kirsten Guenther and Music and Lyrics by Cliff Downs and Katie Kahanovitz the return of Panto at The Playhouse with Lythgoe Family Productions' Peter Pan And Tinkerbell A Pirate Christmas, Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan's Fly produced in association with Crossroads Theatre Company the West Coast Premiere of Harvey Fierstein's Casa Valentina and an Artistic Director's Choice to be announced at a later date.

"Real Women Have Curves" playwright Josefina Lopez has signed with Intellectual Property Group.

In addition, Lopez has inked with Grand Central Publishing to pen a follow-up to her debut novel, "Hungry Woman in Paris," published last month.

Lopez has written many plays and co-wrote, with George Lavoo, the teleplay adaptation of "Curves," which HBO aired in 2002. The screenplay earned Lopez the Humanitas Prize, and the film won two awards that year at Sundance.

Lopez also is an activist who brings arts to Boyle Heights' minority and economically disadvantaged communities through Casa 0101, a theater she founded and is expanding.

Lopez remains repped by Marilyn Atlas Management.

The battle over the launch of Nielsen Media Research's local People Meter service came to Los Angeles on Monday as activists held a news conference on the steps of City Hall to criticize Nielsen for what its detractors view as a systemic problem of undercounting minority television viewership. "If Nielsen gets its way, minority viewership could be dramatically undercounted, and the civil rights of Latinos and African Americans will be shortchanged with less programming, less economic opportunities and less influence in the media marketplace," said Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. "This is an issue of civil rights for the entire entertainment industry." Joining Nogales at the morning news conference organized by the Don't Count Us Out coalition of advocacy groups and lawmakers were Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council members Bernard Parks and Jan Perry and producers Moctesuma Esparza (Selena), Josefina Lopez (Real Women Have Curves) and Dennis Leoni (Showtime's Resurrection Blvd.).