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.
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.
The Comedy of Errors by Rebecca Martínez and Julián Mesri
(dir. Rebecca Martínez)
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The Public Theater (New York, NY)
May 28 - June 30, 2024
Nominated for Outstanding Adaptation - 2024 Drama Desk Awards
This bilingual musical adaptation has songs in English and in Spanish. It was first performed in 2023 in all five boroughs of New York. It is being remounted this year and will be toured throughout all five boroughs again.
Mother Road by Octavio Solis
(dir. David Mendizábal)
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Berkeley Rep (Berkeley, CA)
June 14 - July 21, 2024
Octavio Solis creates the Mexican and Chicanx descendants of Tom Joad from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath in his epic play, Mother Road. Solis extends Steinbeck’s story and themes to a new generation. The play had its first staged reading at the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) Carnaval in Chicago in 2015 and its world premiere at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in 2019.
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.
La Escena - Diversifying the Classics' fourth edition of their biennial Hispanic classical theater festival
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Nimoy Theater, UCLA (Westwood, CA)
September 12 - 17, 2024
This year's festival will include new work by Grumelot (Madrid) and Los Colochos (Mexico City). It will also include several Golden Tongues adaptations of comedia by Los Angeles playwrights. In addition, there will be "performances of DTC translations, including Sor Juana’s Love is the Greater Labyrinth, Lope de Vega’s The Beast of Hungary, and an operatic take on Ana Caro’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs."
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.
