{"id":142785,"date":"2026-03-19T14:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142785\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:27:50","slug":"play-about-finding-connection-in-puerto-rico-coming-to-pennsylvania-playhouse-in-bethlehem-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142785\/","title":{"rendered":"Play about finding connection in Puerto Rico coming to Pennsylvania Playhouse in Bethlehem | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; If you want to check out the theater this weekend, The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paplayhouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania Playhouse in Bethlehem<\/a> may have just the thing for you.<\/p>\n<p>La Gringa is a play about finding connection and the place you belong. Actors Tatiana Torres and Sonia Strockyj visited 69 News at Sunrise Thursday morning with more on the play, which runs from March 13 to March 19.<\/p>\n<p>They talked about the story of La Gringa, and a little about their roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Torres plays\u00a0Maria Elena, who is of Puerto Rican descent who was raised in New York and wants to discover her roots. She takes a vacation to\u00a0Puerto Rico and visits her aunt and cousin to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>She wants to belong, but she is not welcomed with open arms, because she was not born and raised in\u00a0Puerto Rico. She is stuck between two worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia plays the aunt does not accept her niece Maria&#8217;s visit, because her sister Olga left Puerto Rico at a time when the aunt needed her. She takes out her resentment of her sister on her niece during her visit.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia said Maria&#8217;s aunt is the strong person who keeps the family together in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia said the crew makes sure the\u00a0Playhouse transforms to make it feel like Puerto Rico, through elements like music and the territory&#8217;s flag being shown.<\/p>\n<p>To buy tickets, you can go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/app.arts-people.com\/?show=299828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania Playhouse website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; If you want to check out the theater this weekend, The Pennsylvania Playhouse in Bethlehem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,28],"class_list":["post-142785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}