Performance
Burien Actors Theatre Presents Courage in the Park
DTC is excited to announce Burien Actors Theatre will present DTC’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs by Ana Caro at parks around the greater Seattle area this summer. Directed by Rachel Rene, the show will run from July 24th to August 14th. Admission is free! Performances will take place at the following locations: […]
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 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) 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
El Valor de ir “más acá” del canon de Oscar Quiroz
He estado en contacto con la obra de Ana Caro desde que era profesor de actuación y verso en la Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramático de Honduras. Recuerdo con claridad la potencia y la gracia de su verso en boca de mis estudiantes, por aquellos días en los que enseñábamos a través de Zoom. Desde […]
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 will perform Adrian Mitchell’s translation of Lope’s play. On Nov. 7, Professor Barbara Fuchs will lead a talk-back after the performance. Come watch as the […]
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 […]
Get Your Tickets to LA Escena 2026 Today!
The LA Escena Festival of Hispanic classical theater will be back September 17 – October 5, 2026. The fifth edition of Diversifying the Classics’ biennial festival will bring exciting new works by international artists and Los Angeles playwrights to UCLA’s Macgowan Hall theaters in Westwood, Los Angeles. This year LA Escena will offer productions at […]
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 […]