“El Lector Por Horas/Reader By The Hours.” A Successful Spanish Play That Also Deserves To Be A Global Hit
Sanchis Sinisterra is a Spanish playwright with a long career and many successes who is in the...
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Miguel del Arco’s “Rigoletto” at Madrid’s Teatro Real: In-Yer-Face Opera for In-Yer-Face Times
I am going to be honest. I didn’t see Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Real. I had wanted and planned to...
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The Opening of Barcelona’s Newest Theatre: Àlex Rigola Stages Thomas Bernhard’s “L’home De Teatre”
The relationship between theatre and life has been pervaded the work of dramatists from...
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“Vudú (3318) Blixen” or a Complex Naïve Way to Exorcise Pain
There is nothing like going to a world premiere. Being one of the first to see something brand...
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Coronada and the Bull Return to the Stage
Francisco Nieva (1924-2016) ranks amongst the most respected Spanish playwrights of the second...
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“La Regenta” as Opera: a Coruscating Portrait of Smalltown Community Abuse
It is not an easy prospect to adapt into opera one of the most acclaimed social realist novels of...
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The Danger Within: “Asesinato y adolescencia” / “Assassination and Adolescence” Opens the Español’s Season at Madrid’s Matadero
There is something beguiling, provocative and timely in Andrés Lima’s staging of Antonio San...
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Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid
Agrupación Señor Serrano go where other theatre-makers fear to tread. They are always one step...
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Easy Reading (or not): Cristina Morales’s “Lectura fácil” on the Stage
There is nothing easy about Alberto San Juan’s Lectura fácil. His adaptation of Cristina Morales’...
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The Brilliance of Nuria Espert: Secrets, Lies and “La Isla Del Aire”
Alejandro Palomas has transformed his acclaimed 2005 novel La isla del aire (The Island of Air)...
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Remembering A Silenced Teacher: Xavier Bobés And Alberto Conejero’s “El Mar. Visión De Unos Niños Que No Lo Han Visto Nunca”/”The Sea. Vision Of Some Children Who Have Never Seen It”
Xavier Bobés is one of those remarkable artists able to conjure a world through a few objects that...
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Breaking Down Barriers through Cultural Policies: A Conversation with Artistic Director and Producer Jesús Cimarro
Jesús Cimarro is the current President of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts (Academia de las...
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Friendship And Its Discontents: Juan Mayorga’s “Amistad”
Juan Mayorga, one of Spain’s most decorated dramatists — a member of Spain’s Spanish Royal Academy...
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Josep Maria Pou Excels In a Minimalist Catalan-language Production of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”
Florian Zeller’s The Father, first produced in 2012, remains a timely play for various reasons. It...
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Àlex Rigola’s Lean, Mean Riff on “Hedda Gabler”
Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale’s theatre...
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Barcelona Art Scene: “Next to Normal Immersive” at Grec 2022 Festival
Set at Barcelona’s IDEAL Digital Arts Center and crafted by British director Simon Pittman, “Next...
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“Borderland, maldita cabeza,” Mental Health Debate Enters into the Limits of a New Opera
A contemporary opera has conquered one of the oldest and prettiest theaters in Spain. It is titled...
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“Abril imaginario”: One Step Beyond Immersive and Collaborative Theater
It is the second time that Los números imaginarios (The imaginary numbers), a Spanish company of...
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An Argentinian Summer Theater Festival in Wintertime Madrid
February is summer in Argentina, and most Argentinian theaters and companies are on holiday....
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Elitism vs Fatigue, the Alice’s Rabbit Effect
Theater could be done with almost nothing. A proper stage is not even needed. Two people are...
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