{"id":192997,"date":"2025-09-02T02:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192997\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T02:29:22","slug":"the-other-americans-public-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192997\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Americans | Public Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 35 years, the comic actor John Leguizamo has played himself\u2014and many colorful side characters to boot\u2014in dynamic solo shows ranging from\u00a0Mambo Mouth and Spic-O-Rama to Freak,\u00a0Sexaholix and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/theater\/latin-history-for-morons-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin History for Morons<\/a>. This time, however, he is surrounding himself with other actors in an old-school ensemble drama about a family waking up from the American Dream. Leguizamo stars as a Latino laundromat owner in 1990s Queens who must own up to old secrets when his mentally unwell son returns to the fold. Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs the NYC premiere at the Public; the mostly three-named cast includes Luna Lauren Velez, Rosa Evangelina Arredondo, Sarah Nina Hayon, Bradley James Tejeda, Rebecca Jimenez and, as the wayward son, the director&#8217;s own son Trey Santiago-Hudson.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For 35 years, the comic actor John Leguizamo has played himself\u2014and many colorful side characters to boot\u2014in dynamic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,107673,107672,107670,10785,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,13331,1148,107720,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-192997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-event-type-off-broadway","10":"tag-event-type-plays-shows","11":"tag-featured-theater-featured","12":"tag-good-for-good-for-locals","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-price","20":"tag-theater","21":"tag-theater-drama","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115132351423307473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}