Juan Ramirez

2 weeks ago | vogue.com | Juan Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

The musical Cabaret has attracted its share of stunt casting over the years, its vignetted book and club-set numbers allowing performers of all kinds to step into its Weimar-era shoes—and allowing audiences to side-eye whoever might don them next.

1 month ago | vogue.com | Juan Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

The musical Buena Vista Social Club, inspired by the story of the Cuban supergroup and its best-selling 1997 Latin music album, is a feast of cultural dualities. Far from a jumble of disparate elements—this is not your average jukebox—the show is a poignant, rousing evocation of a country caught in the crosshairs of history, and of the art that can heal its wounds. Written by the Miami-born Cuban American Marco Ramirez, the ensemble piece has a fluid relationship to time and space.

2 months ago | ntdaily.com | Juan Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

“,” "A real man doesn’t do house chores” and “” are some of the beliefs that have been perpetuated by machismo culture within the Latino community for many years. Machismo is the sense of being strong or aggressive with masculine pride. The culture is still very normalized within Hispanic communities due to its cultural roots and its reinforcement in , and .

2 months ago | ntdaily.com | Juan Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

Money makes the world go round and is a major factor that can make or break a company. When companies make choices that affect their consumer base, such as removing diversity, equity and inclusion policies, it can lead to significant backlash, harming their reputation and bottom line. The Latino Freeze Movement leverages economic power by showing the impact a freeze on spending can have on companies that go against the interests of their consumers.

2 months ago | vogue.com | Juan Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

The winds of chance have always been on the side of Operation Mincemeat. No, not the team behind the soon-to-open Broadway musical, though we’ll get to them in a second. The actual operation was a WWII deception in which British intelligence sourced a random corpse, dressed him up as a major, stuffed his pockets with false documents outlining plans to invade Greece, and let him wash up on the Spanish coast for the Germans to find while the Allied forces breezed into Sicily.