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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 […]

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DTC Celebrates Hispanic Classical Theater in Mexico City

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) […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Fuenteovejuna at Loyola Marymount University, Oct. 31 – Nov. 2 and Nov. 6-9

We are thrilled for Loyola Marymount University’s production of Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna, directed by our valued collaborator Melanie Queponds. From October 31-November 2 and November 6-9, LMU Theatre Arts […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Golden Tongues Redux: Unhappily Married in Valencia

Laurel Ollstein’s Unhappily Married in Valencia, originally commissioned for the second GoldenTongues festival in 2014, will have a staged reading on Saturday, November 2 at 2:30 pm, at theBroadwater Theatre (6322 […]

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Golden Tongues Workshop Presentation: Unhappily Married in Valencia

Come see Laurel Ollstein’s Unhappily Married in Valencia SEPT 13th Saturday 3pm. The Broadwater Black Box theatre  It’s a farce about marriage. We all need some laughs in our lives  — don’t you […]