‘Cabemos todos’: Teatristas Without Borders at L.A.’s Encuentro
The Latino Theater Company’s border-defying Encuentro, the fourth of its kind, gathered hundreds of Latine artists for productions, partnerships, and dialogues in multiple languages.
The Latino Theater Company’s border-defying Encuentro, the fourth of its kind, gathered hundreds of Latine artists for productions, partnerships, and dialogues in multiple languages.
We share more than colonial history with Central and South America; we also share theatrical traditions. But it can take a little re-exploration to map them.
With the long-awaited normalization of U.S./Cuba relations, theatre artists may be uniquely poised to make the most of the new climate of exchange.
Far from detached or academic, the work on offer at the Santiago a Mil festival showed theatremakers in the thick of politics, race and culture.
The festival founder talks about keeping theatre vital in a country recovering from dictatorship and facing new challenges.
Stateside companies form collaborations with theatres based in Mexico, and vice versa, creating a fertile dynamic for art and change.
Some companies that have made U.S./Mexico theatrical exchanges central to their work.