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The Travels of Teodor Premieres at Red Bull Theater

On November 17th, DTC’s newest translation, The Travels of Teodor by Lope de Vega, premiered at Red Bull Theater in New York City. The performance was the sixth iteration of the Hispanic Golden Age Classics reading series, a long-running collaboration between DTC and Red Bull. The phenomenal reading was directed by Melissa Crespo and featured Isabel Arraiza, Jordan Bellow, Rajesh Bose, Darryl Gene Daughtry, Andy Grotelueschen, Jesse Cao Long, Keren Lugo, Melissa Mahoney, David Mattar Merten, Ajay Naidu, Alfredo Narciso, and Randolph Curtis Rand.

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DTC Celebrates Hispanic Classical Theater in Mexico City

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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 colloquium was one outcome of the work we have been doing through Mex-Clásicos, a collaborative project between UNAM and UCLA, funded by the UC’s Alianza-MX office.

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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 their dedication and hard work as they composed the music, wrote the lyrics, and filmed, directed and edited the video. Congratulations to all the students who helped create the comedia music video and thank you to those involved: Bresee Foundation Teen Tech Center team, ArtsBridge artist-educators, and members of DTC.

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.

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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. Theatermakers Lolo & Lauti and Tamara Tenenbaum have been commissioned to produce new adaptations of classic comedias—stay tuned for news of their work! The Global Research award will enable critical dialogue among scholars and theatermakers on the relevance and potential of Hispanic classical theater across the hemisphere, while producing new adaptations that directly engage local audiences today.

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 and our director, Barbara Fuchs, will introduce central themes of their respective plays.

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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 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 New Paltz students and $10 for the general public. 

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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 think?

Unhappily Married in Valencia was commissioned by Playwrights’ Arena and DTC, to adapt Guillén de Castro’s Los mal casados de Valencia (1618).

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Listen to Part II of Robin Kello’s Interview with UCLA Professor Michael Hackett Now!

Tune into Part II of Robin Kello’s interview with UCLA Professor Michael Hackett for DTC’s The Mentidero, a series of interviews with theater scholars and professionals. In the interview, Prof. Hackett discusses the details of adapting for scenes from the Diversifying the Classics’ translation of Ana Caro’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs to the screen.

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Tune into Radio Entremés’s El Marión

Tune into Radio Entrémes’s productions of Francisco de Quevedo’s The Ladies’ Man (ca. 1625). In this entremés, you’ll meet Constanzo, an eligible bachelor who is kept up at night by three persistent admirers who won’t leave him alone. We’ve produced an audio recording in Spanish, with subtitles in both Spanish and English, as well as a shadow puppet show in English. The audio recording is recommended for ages 10+, while the puppet show is suitable for ages 5+. Running time: 7 minutes and 54 seconds.

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