Welcome to the first online archive of Latinx theatrical adaptation.
LatinxShakespeares.Org is an archive that includes reviews and ephemera from over 190 Latinx-authored and/or Latinx-themed Shakespearean productions and adaptations and over 90 Latinx-authored and/or Latinx-themed adaptations of other western classics staged in the United States over the last seventy-five years.
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This archive is intended for artists and researchers, and anyone who is interested in theatre history and art-making.
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Latinx Shakespeares was built, created, and is run by Carla Della Gatta, PhD, a theatre historian and performance theorist who has researched the intersections of Shakespeare and Latinidad since 2010. She works with theaters and artists on staging ethnic and bilingual classical theatre.
Current & Upcoming Shows
En Parábola / Conversations on Tragedy (Part I)
by Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
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Amant New York (Brooklyn, NY)
March 14 - June 9, 2024
"Simultaneously a live performance, experimental film, and installation work, En Parábola: Conversations on Tragedy reimagines the myth of Antigone with a cast of non-professional performers residing in Puerto Rico and within its diaspora in the United States." Lassalle-Morillo builds on her work, [anti] [gone], that was staged at Walt Disney Modular Theatre in 2019.
Richard II, Heny IV, and Henry V
(dir. Joseph Haj)
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Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
March 23 - May 25, 2024
The Guthrie mounts the ambitious staging of the first set of plays of the Henriad, with the same group of actors in repertory. Lead actor Daniel José Molina plays Prince Hal and then later Henry V, a role he played at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the 2017 and 2018 seasons.
Waiting for Godínez by Daniel A. Olivas
(dir. Devin Valdez)
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Teatro Espejo (Sacramento, CA)
April 5 - 21, 2024
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Olivas' adaptation of Beckett's Waiting for Godot addresses anti-immigration policies and involves two characters, Isabel and Jesús, waiting for a character named Godínez. This is the world premiere.
Romeo y Juliet by Karen Zacarías
Adapted by KJ Sanchez and Karen Zacarías
(dir. Anna Skidis Vargas)
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University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
April 10-21, 2024
This bilingual adaptation set in 1840s Alta California and involves a Romeo and Juliet both played by women as women. It had its first production at CalShakes in Orinda, CA, in 2022.
Electricidad by Luis Alfaro
(dir. Cristina Frías)
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East Los Angeles College (Monterey Park, CA)
April 12 - 21, 2024
Part of Alfaro’s Greek trilogy, his modernization of Electra takes place in Los Angeles “right now, baby.” With a three-female chorus of Las Vecinas and a Chicanx-Cholo setting and dramaturgy, it is a play of twenty-nine short scenes.
Poster illustration made by Paulina Levaggi
Borderline by Andrew Siañez-De La O
(dir. Stevie Walker-Webb)
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Milagro Theatre (Portland, OR)
May 3 - May 18, 2024
This play includes "made-up-myths, stories of the past, and a rendition of La Llorona to defeat the very real monster stalking children in the borderlands."
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It had a reading in 2018, and this is the first full production.
Coriolanus by Sean San José
(dir. Rosa Joshi)
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, OR)
July 23 - October 13, 2024
Co-produced by OSF and Portland Center Stage, Sean San José's modern-verse translation from the Play On Shakespeare series will be a "movement-focused production" and feature a cast of female and non-binary actors.
Available Books
This book includes essays and interviews from 25 playwrights, actors, scholars, dramaturgs, and directors who work at the intersections of Shakespeare and Latinx theatrical production.
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It is available at all major online booksellers in hardcover and ebook. In February 2023, it went to paperback.
Latinx Shakespeares, the monograph, explores how Latinx culture is constructed dramaturgically and textually in recent Shakespearean adaptations and productions.
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It is available at all major online booksellers.
It is also available for FREE to download. Hit the button below.
Online Essays & Blogs
"Latinx Shakespeares as Performance Methodology," British Shakespeare Association, 2023.
“West Side Story: A New Take on Romeo and Juliet, 60 Years Later,” Shakespeare & Beyond, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2022.
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“Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet Turns 25,” Shakespeare & Beyond, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2021.
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“West Side Story: 60 Years as a Cultural Barometer,” Shakespeare & Beyond, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2021.
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For media (audio, video, and interviews) and additional resources, see the Resources page. For a full list of my scholarship and media, see carladellagatta.com.
LatinxShakespeares.Org is a non-profit site.
This is an online, living, and growing archive of Latinx Theatre Adaptation.
Please credit all artists and scholars appropriately.
Please cite the archive in your dramaturgical and scholarly research.
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All images and ephemera have been posted with permission from theaters and artists.
They may not be reproduced or re-posted without permission.
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I built and paid for this site myself because of my love for theatre and theatre-makers.
I will be managing it as editor and adding to it each month.
All donations go to maintenance of the site.
