Collaboration
Annotating Performance
Theatre dybbuk’s illuminated lecture format, which weaves together a scholarly lecture and performances by actors, recently offered me the opportunity to present Cervantes’ El retablo de las maravillas/The Marvelous Puppet Show to an audience unlikely ever to have encountered the text. Known for its deep dives and carefully considered productions under the able direction of Aaron Henne, […]
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 […]
Diversifying the Classics Visits Geffen Academy
This February, members of Diversifying the Classics visited UCLA’s 6th-12th grade school, Geffen Academy, to share their work with Upper School Spanish students. The visit was perfectly timed, as students in the Advanced Spanish course were studying Spanish Golden Age literature. DTC members Rhonda Sharrah, Rebecca Smith, and Aina Soley Mateu, along with Geffen Academy […]
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’s Children’s Theater Workshop Returns to LA Librería
In collaboration with La Librería, the noted Spanish-language children’s bookstore in Los Angeles, Diversifying the Classics will be hosting a theater workshop for kids ages 6-11 on May 17! Reprising our 2023 workshop, this event will teach young students about comedia in a bilingual art-making environment. Students will have the opportunity to learn theater techniques—how to tell stories with their […]
Jóvenes Clásicos’ Musical Adaptation of Calderón’s Amar después de la muerte, in Collaboration with Radio Comedia, to be Performed in Málaga on May 18th
On May 18th, at the Teatro Echegaray in Málaga, Jóvenes Clásicos, the Málaga-based theater company, will present a musical adaptation of Calderón de la Barca’s Amar después de la muerte. This production marks the company’s fourth collaboration with Diversifying the Classics and its third with Radio Comedia. In Amar después de la muerte, Calderón immerses us in one of the […]
LA Librería Workshop II: La Vida Es Sueño
On May 17, Diversifying the Classics and noted Spanish-language children’s bookstore LA Librería hosted a theater workshop. Students ages 6 to 12 performed a Spanish-language children’s adaptation of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La vida es sueño written by UNAM Professor Gabriela Villanueva and Rachel Kaufman as part of our Mex-Clásicos initiative. Students participated in various activities […]
Mex-Clásicos: Commissioning Hispanic Classical Theatrical Adaptations in Mexico City
In January, DTC’s Mex-Clásicos and its collaborator, the Seminar on the Early Modern Period at la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City, launched a call for a new artist residency and theatrical laboratory initiative: Nuevas Dramaturgias del Teatro Clásico Hispánico. The project encourages artists to produce contemporary adaptations of theatrical texts from […]
Professor Barbara Fuchs Speaks with ArtsBridge Artist-Educators
On April 8th, Barbara Fuchs joined UCLA ArtsBridge’s director Perry Daniel and her class of undergraduate artist-educators to discuss comedia, adaptation, translation, and early modern visions of the world. This engaging discussion was part of DTC’s ongoing project, now entering its third year, to bring comedia to LAUSD students in collaboration with ArtsBridge and the Bresee Foundation. We […]
RSA Grant for Collaboration with Red Bull Theater
DTC has received a Renaissance Society of America grant for Public Engagement Projects in Renaissance Studies, supported by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation. The grant, under the direction of Prof. Javier Patiño, will support our next collaboration with our long-term partners, Red Bull Theater of New York. As part of LA Escena 2024, Red Bull […]