The Cuban actor Mijail Mulkay has had an outstanding artistic career and therefore he has received proper recognition in Cuba and in Colombia, a nation where he started to work in 2004. Mulkay, at present living in Miami where he has succeeded with several theatre plays, was interviewed by OnCuba. Ten years ago you left from Cuba to start a professional career in Colombia. Can you tell us significant experiences you had during that time? In October 2004 I travelled to Colombia because the RCN television channel had come to Cuba searching for actors for a production and I was chosen for the project. Over that time there were not many work opportunities in Cuba. The possibility of working abroad was a tempting option, not only from the economic but also from the artistic perspective. As an actor I had won recognition in Cuba in the cinema, the television and the theatre, in spite of being young, Jajajajaja, I’m not so young anymore. Starting from zero in another country was really difficult but it did prove fruitful. During nine years I had a lot of work in the Colombian television. With Caracol Television I worked in La ex, Montecristo, Las...

Alexis Valdés, the well-known Cuban actor and comedian, began performing the monologue “Defending the Caveman” at the Trail Theater in Miami on Sept. 6, 2013. It is a piece written in 1991 by U.S. actor Rob Becker, who won the Laurence Olivier Award for best entertainment that same year. In January of 2013, after five years of producing, directing and hosting the Mega TV show “Esta Noche Tu Night,” Valdés left the program. The comedy show sparked and still sparks great expectations, winning Latino television’s largest audience. When “Defending the Caveman”—which broke a record for longest-running Broadway show—premiered at the Trail, it was expected to last only through the month of September, with Friday-through-Sunday performances. However, it was so well-received that it remained for many months longer. It is the first time that a Cuban artist has performed the piece, and Valdés, with his perseverance, dedication, honesty and capacity for hard work, has been handsomely rewarded with the acclaim of public and critics alike. What was it about “Defending the Caveman” that made you interested in performing it? I liked what the text was proposing, its intentions of uniting and not dividing—which is something that always moves me—and its universal...

Since last September 6 Cuban actor and comedian Alexis Valdes presents the monologue “Defending the Caveman” in the Trail Theatre in Miami. The repeated applause amid the staging and the ovations at the end of every function, have facilitated the piece to remain in theaters until January 19 , although at the time of its release it was scheduled for only a month. This is not the first time that Valdes performs on the Trail successfully. In his view the space has “an ideal dimension for mood and is conveniently located in downtown Miami, in 8th and 37th”. For the occasion the actor assumes the monologue with greater permanence in Broadway history, seen by over 8 million people in 45 countries and translated into 15 languages. The Caveman, whose title in English is Defending the Caveman, is a comedy written by American actor Rob Becker in 1991, the same year he received the Laurence Olivier Award for best work of entertainment. The piece, extremely funny, investigates through a sociological and anthropological perspective how men and women may be better understood. In addressing the differences between the two with humorous overtones intended to expose the reasons of their lack of understanding....

The Cuban comedian Alexis Valdes has always been on news, but by these days the reasons to interview him have increased: his monologue The Caveman has successfully ran since September in Miami’s Trail Theater, and he has just presented, in the recently concluded International Book Fair in that city, his first book ¨Con todo mi humor.¨ As if that were not enough, a sense of uncertainty about his return or not to TV is present in many Latinos after the suspension of the airing of his popular show ¨Esta Noche Tu Night¨, of the Mega TV Channel. The e-mail interviews are usually very cold, but with Alexis Valdes, nothing is cold; accompanied by his invariable smart laugh, he spoke with OnCuba,-in about ten messages-on that news and other unavoidable things among Cubans. To what do you attribute that Esta Noche Tu Night has become the most watched comedy show of Hispanic television? Esta Noche Tu Night , -which was an improved version of ¨Seguro que yes¨, was a program that took to the people of Miami a fresh humoristic proposal, a mix of what I had learned in Spain, in Cuba and in the world. It was a bold and...