August 25 - October 8, 2022

A.R.T./New York Theatres

502 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019


Through a series of beautiful and intimate moments, two Californians, Lillian and Carlos, explore significant moments in their lives, discovering they are linked in unexpected ways. Semi-autobiographical, Los Otros captures a universal story of interconnectedness, love, risk, and revelation through the lens of two people’s lives.  By Tony Award nominees Ellen Fitzhugh and Michael John LaChiusa, acclaimed director Noah Himmelstein (The Lucky StarI Am Harvey Milk) helms the New York premiere of this unique musical which features musical direction by J. Oconer Navarro (Caroline, or Change) and orchestrations by Tony Award winner Bruce Coughlin (The Light in the Piazza). Los Otros received its East Coast premiere production in 2017 at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, MD under Himmelstein’s direction.

Runtime: 90 minutes (no intermission)

Accessibility: The A.R.T./New York Theatres are fully ADA-accessible, including:

  • Convenient curb cuts close to the entrance for wheelchair and mobility device accessibility

  • Elevator access to each floor

  • ADA-accessible restrooms

*Our number one priority is the health and safety of our artists and audience. With this in mind, all attendees will be required to show photo ID and proof of full vaccination and wear a mask at all times while in the theatre and lobby.

Please note this production is currently closed. This information is listed as archival information.

Cast

Luba Mason

LUBA MASON maintains a diverse career on Broadway and Off Broadway, in films and television and has graced various major music venues in the U.S. and around the world. The classically trained singer, actor, dancer and pianist has starred in 9 Broadway shows including: Girl from the North Country (Lucille Lortel nomination) playing Mrs. Burke and the drums!), Jekyll & Hyde, Chicago (Velma Kelly) sharing center stage with Brooke Shields, the first Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Hedy LaRue) with Matthew Broderick, Paul Simons’ The Capeman, opposite Sid Caesar in Sid Caesar & Company, the American premiere of Sunset Boulevard, Tommy Tune’s Tony-Award winning musical The Will Rogers Follies, and Late Nite Comic.

Off Broadway she performed in Pretty Filthy (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations) as Georgina Congress and Unexpected Joy (Joy) at the York Theater.

Most recently, she starred in Tonya Pinkins directorial debut in the award-winning political horror movie "Red Pill." Some dramatic guest-starring roles on television include "Person of Interest," "Forever," and "Law & Order."

Recipient of the 2019 Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist, Luba has released 4 critically-acclaimed solo albums: Triangle (2020, Blue Canoe Records) presenting an unprecedented line-up of Voice, Vibraphone and Bass, Mixtura (Kobalt Music) trademarking a new musical format, Krazy Love (Sunnyside Records) debuting her impressive song-writing skills in a Brazilian Jazz format and Collage (PS Classics) a beautiful marriage of jazz, latin, pop and poetry. Most notable music performances include Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis and his orchestra and her husband Ruben Blades, Radio City Music Hall with Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Stevie Wonder, Sting and James Taylor as well as the Bratislava, Costa Rican and Panama Jazz Festivals.

Luba is a proud graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (Drama) and the Circle In the Square Theater School.

Lubamason.com IG : luba_mason

Caesar Samayoa

CAESAR SAMAYOA most recently concluded a 5 year run originating the role of Kevin J/Ali in the critically acclaimed production of Come From Away on Broadway and Apple TV+. Broadway: Sister Act, The Pee Wee Herman Show. Select Off-Broadway: Love's Labour's Lost (Delacorte Theater), Shakespeare's R&J, Bernstein's Mass (Carnegie Hall).

Credits include leading roles in Film, TV, Off-Broadway and Regional Theatre Companies including The Public Theatre, Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep., the Ford’s Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Primary Stages and Tectonic Theater Project. Caesar has also appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and various national and international concert tours. BFA, Ithaca College.

CaesarSamayoa.com @CaesarSamayoa

Creatives

Ellen Fitzhugh (Book and Lyrics)

Musicals: With the inimitable Harold Prince: Grind with Larry Grossman, Diamonds and Paradise Found; Herringbone with Tom Cone and Skip Kennon; Big Blonde with Kennon, developed at Playwrights Horizons and The Public Theater; Paper Moon with Marty Casella and Grossman; Muscle with James Lapine and William Finn; book and lyrics to Los Otros with Michael John LaChiusa, directed at the Mark Taper by Graciela Daniele and at Everyman Theater by Noah Himmelstein. Other: two lyrics within Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns; additional lyrics for Anthony Newley's Chaplin; songs for sequels of The Brave Little Toaster with Finn; title song for MGM's That's Dancing with Grossman and Henry Mancini; songs for Disney's The Great Mouse Detective with Grossman and Mancini. Member of Dramatists Guild. Emmy, Drama Desk, and Tony nominated.

Michael John LaChiusa (Music)

Broadway: five Tony noms; The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Off Broadway: First Daughter Suite, Giant, Queen of the Mist, Bernarda Alba, See What I Wanna See, Little Fish, Hello Again, First Lady Suite. Regional: The Gardens of Anuncia, Rain (The Old Globe), Lovers and Friends (Chautauqua Variations) (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Send (who are you? I love you) (Houston Grand Opera). Revues: La La LaChiusa (Joe’s Pub), Hotel C’est L’Amour (The Blank Theatre), Heartbreak Country (Jazz at Lincoln Center). Awards: Obie Award, Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Award, Kleban Prize, two Daytime Emmy Awards.

Noah Himmelstein (Director)

This past season: The Lucky Star (59e59); Rooted (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, world premiere) and The Skin of Our Teeth (Everyman Theatre). Recent: Everything is Wonderful (Philadelphia Theatre Co); The Costume (Inner Voices); The Forgotten Woman (Bay Street Theatre, world premiere); I Am Harvey Milk (Lincoln Center, Strathmore, Disney Hall, San Francisco); An Almost Holy Picture; The Book of Joseph; Los Otros; An Inspector Calls (Everyman, also Associate Artistic Director); Bleeding Love (Fredericia Theatre, Denmark); Positions 1956 (Urban Arias, world premiere). New York Philharmonic, American Opera Projects, Lincoln Center American Songbook. Upcoming: When Playwrights Kill and debut film, ShirtTugger. Noahhimmelstein.com

J. Oconer Navarro (Music Director)

recently conducted Caroline, Or Change on Broadway. Los Otros marks his fifth collaboration with MJLC: First Daughter Suite, Rain, The Diary of Dominick Dunne, The Gardens of Anuncia. Favorites: ART, The Guthrie, Paper Mill Playhouse, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Kennedy Center, the Public, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater. A Jonathan Larson Award Winner, J. is a composer/lyricist; his newest work, Breathe, premiered at NYU-Tisch, where he is Head of Music and Vocal Performance (New Studio on Broadway). He is Composer-in-Residence at the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle NYC, and his liturgical music is sung worldwide. @joconernavarro

Junghyun Georgia Lee (Scenic Designer)

is a Korean born NYC based designer. She designed for NYTW, Ma-Yi, Public, Soho Rep, The Play Co., Alley Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Alliance and Children's Theatre Company. She is a member of New Neighborhood. MFA, Yale School of Drama. Junghyungeorgialeedesign.com

Alejo Vietti (Costume Designer)

An Argentine native, he has immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1990's. Broadway’s Holiday Inn, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (West End – Olivier Nomination, National tour, Japan and Australia), and Allegiance (Drama Desk Nomination). Designed for Radio City Rockettes, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC Opera and NY City Center Encores, Primary Stages, Atlantic Theatre Company, MCC, among others. He has extensively worked in regional Theatres across the U.S. commercial projects, operas, internationally, and for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He is the recipient of the 2010 TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. @alejo_vietti_costume_design

Adam Honoré (Lighting Design)

Select Off-Broadway: Ain’t No Mo (The Public); Carmen Jones (Classic Stage), Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Faux-bia! (Carnegie Hall). Select Regional: Arena Stage, Capital Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Huntington Theater Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Signature Theatre. International: Haydn’s The Seasons (Austria); Kinky Boots (Manila); Fun Home (Int’l Premier, featuring Lea Salonga). Drama Desk Nominee and AUDELCO Award recipient. www.HonoreLighting.com

Ken Travis (Sound Designer)

Broadway: In Transit, Aladdin (All International Productions), Jekyll and Hyde, A Christmas Story the Musical, Scandalous, Newsies, Memphis, The Threepenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park, and Steel Magnolias.  Regional and Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, The New Group, The Civilians, Atlantic Theater Company, Soho Rep, Classic Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theater, Mabou Mines, Old Globe, 5th Avenue Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theater, The Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theater, KC Rep.

Robert Bennett (Production Stage Manager)

Select Broadway: RSC Nicholas Nickelby. The Trip to Bountiful, The Lyons, Stick Fly, Time Stands Still, Bent, Dancing at Lughnasa, I Remember Mama, Nick & Nora, Awake and Sing, American Buffalo, Desire Under the Elms, Coast of Utopia. Tours: Gray Gardens, La Cage, Sugar Babies, Evita, Grease, Shenandoah, Guys and Dolls.  Off-Broadway: Young Man from Atlanta, Curse of the Starving Class, Incident at Vichy, Inner Voices.  National Music Theater Conference. GM at BAM, VP stage ops Radio City.

Joey Monda, Dailey-Monda Management (Producer & General Manager)

Management and producing credits include the Broadway productions of Allegiance, Voices for the Voiceless (St. James and The Al Hirschfeld Theatres on Broadway), and Concert for America (tour). Off-Broadway credits include Fern Hill, Smart Blonde, Goldstein, Disaster!, That Physics Show, Don’t You F*cking Say a Word, Inner Voices, Unbroken Circle, Pressing Matters, A Persistent Memory, C.O.A.L. (Confessions of a Liar). Current/ Upcoming/Ongoing: National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals, Los Otros, The Captives. Additional work includes projects for the Broadway League, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Actors’ Fund, and Playbill. DMMNYC.com

Paulette Haupt (Producer)

Co-founder and Artistic Director for the National Music Theater Conference at the O’Neill Theater Center from 1978 to 2017.  Under her leadership, the early works of Kirsten Childs, Jeanine Tesori, Andrew Lippa, Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Tan Dun, Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater, and Lin-Manuel Miranda were developed at the Conference. For over three decades she was music director/conductor of operas and musicals, including productions of Savage Land at the Kennedy Center, Once Upon a Mattress on an extensive tour of India and Sri Lanka, The Music Man in Beijing, China, and numerous works nationwide. Ms. Haupt was associate conductor for the Grammy-nominated recording of Joe Masteroff and Edward Thomas’ Desire Under the Elms. She served as a Tony Nominator from 2009 to 2012, and for PREMIERES she has commissioned, developed and produced new works since 2001 and initiated the INNER VOICES series in 2008. LOS OTROS is Premieres’ seventh production of INNER VOICES.