On May 2nd, members of Diversifying the Classics attended the West Coast premiere of our translation, The Beast of Hungary by Lope de Vega. Our long-time collaborator Randy Shorts directed an excellent production at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga.
DTC is delighted to announce the West Coast premiere of our recent translation, The Beast of Hungary, by Lope de Vega, directed by our long-time collaborator Randy Shorts. The Theater Department will present Beast of Hungary on April 30th, May 1st, and May 2nd at 7 pm in Los Osos High School Theatre in Rancho Cucamonga.
Please join us on April 30, 2026, 7 PM at The Philosophical Research Society (3910 Los Feliz Boulevard)!
DTC is delighted to announce that the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT) will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with LA Escena in 2026. The conference will take place September 17th-19th at UCLA.
Join us to celebrate Hispanic classical theater at this year’s LA Escena Festival! From September 17th-20th, Diversifying the Classics will be hosting the fifth edition of our biennial theater festival at UCLA’s historic Nimoy Theater.
Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan will present DTC’s translation of The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs by Ana Caro from March 19th to March 29th. The production will be directed by our long-term collaborator Oscar Quiroz, who previously directed Sor Juana’s Love Is the Greater Labyrinth.
DTC is thrilled to share that the Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Productions at the University of California, Riverside will present Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna, or Like Sheep to Water, translated by Curt Columbus and directed by long-term DTC collaborator Melanie Queponds. Barbara Fuchs will lead a post-play discussion on Friday, Feb, 13.
We are delighted to announce that our director, Barbara Fuchs, will be sharing her family-friendly adaptation of Fuente Ovejuna as part of the Folger’s Reading Room Festival on January 24th at 11:30 am. This adaptation invites young audiences to imagine solidarity in the face of tyranny while crafting and making music. Before the reading, there will be a hands-on workshop for the audience to create the props to be used in the play. Admission is free for children under 12 and students with ID, $20 admission for others.
On November 17th, DTC’s newest translation, The Travels of Teodor by Lope de Vega, premiered at Red Bull Theater in New York City. The performance was the sixth iteration of the Hispanic Golden Age Classics reading series, a long-running collaboration between DTC and Red Bull. The phenomenal reading was directed by Melissa Crespo and featured Isabel Arraiza, Jordan Bellow, Rajesh Bose, Darryl Gene Daughtry, Andy Grotelueschen, Jesse Cao Long, Keren Lugo, Melissa Mahoney, David Mattar Merten, Ajay Naidu, Alfredo Narciso, and Randolph Curtis Rand.
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In early September, Diversifying the Classics visited Mexico City for a colloquium on classical theater titled “De los textos a las tablas: El teatro de la modernidad temprana (s. XVI-XVII) en su proyección geográfica, mediática y temporal,” hosted by the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (FFyL) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). This colloquium was one outcome of the work we have been doing through Mex-Clásicos, a collaborative project between UNAM and UCLA, funded by the UC’s Alianza-MX office.