Pinero

Nuyorican playwright, poet and actor Miguel Piñero exploded onto the New York City theater scene in 1974 when his controversial play Short Eyes, a gruelingly realistic depiction of prison life, made its debut at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. The play, based on Piñero's own experiences in the state pen (where he served time for drugs and petty theft), established Piñero as an exciting new talent in the long tradition of the outlaw poet; a fiercely talented artist who introduced the harsh language of the streets to bourgeois society, but was unable to live by its rules. Cuban-American director Leon Ichaso's (CROSSOVER DREAMS, BITTER SUGAR) appropr...