Announcement
A Suelta State of Mind: Special Issue of Comediantes Out Now!
We are excited to share the publication of the first of two special issues of The Bulletin of the Comediantes dedicated to the sueltas, cheaply-printed texts which made comedias widely accessible in the early modern Hispanic world. This issue highlights the work of Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum, founder of the extraordinary database Comedias Sueltas, an interactive online resource dedicated to cataloguing sueltas and enabling research on them. Read the issue here!
Ana Caro, Drama Queen, at the University of Chicago by Noémie Ndiaye
A most welcome note from Noémie Ndiaye, Associate Professor of English and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, on her experience teaching DTC’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs: To teach Ana Caro’s play Valor, agravio y mujer in my “Drama Queens” course, I use the translation established by the UCLA Working Group on the Comedia in […]
Apply Now: CFO for DTC’s Colloquium on Early Modern Theater at UNAM
Diversifying the Classics and UNAM’s Seminar on the Early Modern Period are excited to announce the Call for Papers for our 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.” The colloquium will be held September 3-5, 2025 […]
Celebrate Ana Caro with Expand the Canon: March 30th at 10 am PST
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Expand the Canon, an organization that supports the study and production of classic plays by women and underrepresented genders, will host a digital discussion of Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio, y mujer. The discussion will take place on Sunday, March 30th at 10 am PST on Zoom. Diversifying the Classics is excited to join this discussion of […]
Congratulations to Golden Tongues Playwright Lina Patel on Receiving the Cornelia Street American Playwriting Award!
The annual award is named for Cornelia Street in New York’s West Village, which has hosted some of the nation’s greatest playwrights. It recognizes an emerging playwright “of exceptional work ethic, character, and talent.” We couldn’t be prouder! We are honored to have collaborated with Lina on Traces of Desire, her marvelous adaptation of Lope de Vega’s The […]
Congratulations to Students at the Bresee Foundation for Their Award-Winning Music Video
We are thrilled to share that students at the Bresee Foundation have won the Audience Choice Award at the REACH Media Festival for their comedia music video composed as part of DTC’s collaboration with Bresee and based on our translation of The Beast of Hungary. Students adapted the comedia with a rock and roll twist. We are so proud of […]
Courage at SUNY New Paltz November 14-23
Diversifying the Classics is thrilled to announce SUNY New Paltz Department of Arts will perform our translation of The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs by Ana Caro. The production is directed by Carmela Marner and will take place on November 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, and 23 in the Parker Theatre. Prices are $5 for […]
DTC at the Folger
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 […]
DTC at the Shakespeare Association of America in Boston by Barbara Fuchs
A roundtable on scholars collaborating with New York’s Red Bull Theater, organized by Prof. Jean Howard of Columbia University, allowed us to share our vital partnership, “Hispanic Golden Age Classics,” with a large audience of early modernists. As readers of this blog will know, DTC has been collaborating with Red Bull on staged readings, both virtual […]
DTC Presents The Travels of Teodor in Collaboration with Red Bull Theater (NYC)
The Hispanic Golden Age Classics series continues with a reading of Lope de Vega’s La doncella Teodor in our brand-new English translation. Taken from her home and studies in Toledo, Teodor uses her wits and cunning to escape slavery, forced marriage, and shipwreck. Our heroine then finds herself up against the scholars of Persia, debating for her […]
DTC Receives the UCLA Global Research Grant Award
DTC is pleased to announce that with support from the UCLA Global Research Grant Award, we are expanding our Latin American collaborations on Hispanic classical theater to Argentina. In addition to our ongoing collaborations with Mexico, we will now be partnering with Argentine theater artists and the Universidad Torcuato de Tella (UTDT) in Buenos Aires. […]
DTC Welcomes Paul Wagar to Translation Workshop
On December 3rd, Diversifying the Classics was delighted to welcome the acting professor and voice coach Paul Wagar to speak to the translation workshop. Paul worked with the actors in TFT’s extraordinary production of The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs by Ana Caro, directed by Michael Hackett. Paul shared invaluable insights about how actors receive translations of Hispanic classical theater […]