Some 12 miles southwest of the city of Buenos Aires is a remarkable settlement called Ciudad Evita. It was founded in 1947 by the then-president of Argentina, Juan Perón, in tribute to his wife, Eva.

Buenos Aires’ great independent newspaper La Prensa was dead last week, its life snuffed out by Juan Perón. By act of the rubber-stamp Argentine Congress, the world-famed paper had been expropriated ...

Don’t cry for Andrew Lloyd Webber. True, his “Bad Cinderella,” a renamed version of his COVID-troubled West End musical “Cinderella” in London, closed on Broadway in June after only 85 performances ...

Michael Grandage’s revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Evita” at the Marquis Theater is stately, sincere and sober-sided. By Ben Brantley The wife of Juan Perón made an indelible mark on ...

Premieres Friday, April 14, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS App + Encore Sunday, April 16 at 3 p.m. on KPBS 2 Ballet Hispánico’s Dandara Veiga (Eva “Evita” Perón), Chris Bloom (Juan Perón), and the ...

Young Evita Duarte is poor but rich in determination to become a celebrity. She acts and dances her way to success, and then she meets influential politician Juan Peron. Now: Evita Peron, the wife of ...

Wildly cheered by flag-waving crowds, a lean, leathery man in an olive-green army uniform rode triumphantly into Buenos Aires one sunny day last week to take over as President of Argentina. The new ...

Olivas discusses playing Argentine president Juan Perón, why the musical is still relevant today and how it has connected with Latino audiences: "This is such a significant moment of representation ...