Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Based on the true story of Mexican-American author and educator Tomás Rivera, ...

4 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere Tomás and the Library Lady tells the true story of Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet and educator who found an unlikely friend in a librarian ...

Considering the political temperature, "Shrek" would have been the safer choice. But Oregon Children's Theatre chose for its spring musical a biographical work focusing on the mentorship between a ...

Tomás loves stories. As the young son of migrant farm workers, he spends the summer with his family following the crops north from Texas to Iowa. When a chance encounter brings him to the local ...

When work began on “Tomás and the Library Lady,” it was a regular play with some unusual challenges such as that the small, diverse cast spoke different languages. But changes had to be made after the ...

A lot of people pay lip service to the wonders of books and libraries, then spend most of their free time playing video games. Tomás Rivera was one person who truly owed his amazing life to the power ...