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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 […]
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 […]
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 Celebrates LA Escena 2024
From September 12-17, 2024, LA Escena held its fourth biennial festival at UCLA’s historic, recently renovated Nimoy Theater, the festival’s largest venue yet. This year, LA Escena brought together artists from all over the US, Spain, and Mexico to perform 11 cutting-edge productions, the most in the festival’s history. An extraordinary joint conference of the […]
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 […]
DTC’s Beast of Hungary at Los Osos High Featured on ABC7LA
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. After the performance, DTC, Shorts, and the cast were interviewed by ABC7LA News to discuss Lope’s impressive body […]
Get Your Tickets to LA Escena 2024 Today!
Diversifying the Classics will be hosting LA Escena 2024 from September 12th to 17th at the newly renovated Nimoy Theater in Westwood. Come see original presentations of classical Hispanic works by acclaimed artists from LA, NYC, Mexico City, and Madrid. Tickets are free but space is limited, so reserve today! Kicking off National Hispanic Heritage […]
Golden Tongues Performances at La Plaza on Nov. 20th
Join us at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes on November 20th for readings of three original comedia adaptations from DTC’s 2024 anthology Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles. Through their work, playwrights Diana Burbano, June Carryl, and Luis Alfaro explore how comedia can help us better understand California’s past. They will offer pre-performance remarks […]
Golden Tongues Play at Ensemble Studio Theatre
In case you missed it at LA Escena, Rosie Nagasaki’s I Put a Spell on You, based on Ana Caro’s El conde Partinuplés, will have a staged reading this weekend as part of EST’s festival of new plays, Winterfest! When: Saturday, April 5, 8pm Where: 3269 Casitas Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90039 For more information:
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 […]