John Leguizamo's Solo Show Latin History for Dummies to Play Public Theater

John Leguizamo will return to the New York stage as part of the Public Theater’s 2016-17 season. John Leguizamo: Latin History for Dummies will receive its New York premiere off-Broadway next spring. Tony Taccone, who helmed Carrie Fisher’s Broadway solo show Wishful Drinking, will direct.

The show is inspired by Leguizamo’s observations of the absence of Latin American history in school curriculums. “Just imagine you’re a white kid and all of a sudden, everybody’s Latin and everything they’re teaching you is Latin and you don’t hear anything about yourself of about our contributions,” Leguizamo explained in a statement. The writer and performer will break down 3,000 years of history into 90 minutes.

Leguizamo’s solos shows include the award-winning Mambo Mouth and Spic-O-Rama, the Tony-nommed Freak, which won an Emmy for its HBO adaptation, Sexaholix…a Love Story and most recently Ghetto Klown. The actor is also known for voicing Sid in the Ice Age movies and many film credits, including Love in the Time of Cholera, The Happening, Righteous Kill, The Babysitters, The Take, Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, Carlito's Way, Casualties of War and the Netflix drama Bloodline.