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A Noise Within Theatre

Based in Pasadena, California, A Noise Within Theatre has staged classic plays such as Hamlet since 1991. In 2020, they hosted a virtual performance experience that included plays adapted from Golden Age works such as Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza.

Date	Location	Work	Reference	Company/People
November 12-16, 2020	A Virtual Experience Hosted by A Noise Within Theater	The King of Maricopa County (based on Lope de Vega's El castigo sin venganza)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: A Noise Within Theatre Author (of adaptation): Mary Lyon Kamitaki
November 12-16, 2020	A Virtual Experience Hosted by A Noise Within Theater	The Woodingle Puppet Show with Host Mr. C, as Constructed by Mr. Asinine with Calculations and Articulations of the Genius Sort (based on Miguel de Cervantes’ Retablo de las maravillas)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: A Noise Within Theatre Author (of adaptation): Julie Taiwo Oni
November 12-16, 2020	A Virtual Experience Hosted by A Noise Within Theater	What We Pay For Likes (based on adaptation of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Los empeños de un engaño, translated by Diversifying the Classics as What We Owe Our Lies)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: A Noise Within Theatre Author (of adaptation): Ina Craig-Galván

Antaeus Theatre Company

Antaeus Theatre Company describes themself as “theater company that explores and produces timely and timeless works, grounded in our passion for the classics.” The company was founded in 1991 by Dakin Matthews and Lillian Groag with 30 members. Dakin Matthews rewrote a few Spanish Golden Age plays as adaptations and translations, including The Liar and The Proof of the Promise from the works of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.

Date	Location	Work	Reference	Company/People
February 3-27, 2000	Los Angeles	The Liar (aka Truth Can't Be Trusted) by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón	Program	Company: Antaeus Theatre Company Author (translation): Dakin Matthews Director: Anne McNaughton
April - May, 2001	Los Angeles	Legal Briefs	Production information	Company: Antaeus Theatre Company Author (translation): Dakin Matthews Director: Emily Chase
February 21, 2002	The Secret Rose Theatre	Proof of the Promise (La prueba de las promesas by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón	Production information Program	Company: Antaeus Theatre Company Author (translation): Dakin Matthews Director: Anne McNaughton
2010	Deaf West Theatre	The Capulets and the Montagues (Castelvines y Monteses by Lope de Vega)	Production information	Company: Antaeus Theatre Company Director: Ann McNaugton
April 15, 2012	Los Angeles	The Liar by Pierre Corneille, based on La verdad sospechosa by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón	Production information About the artists	Company: Antaeus Theatre Company Author (of adaptation): David Ives

Compañía Lírico- Teatral Renacimiento

Date	Location	Work	Reference	People/Companies
1931	The California International Theatre	Molinos de viento by Rafael González Rodríguez	Kanellos, Nicolás. A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940. 1990, p. 40	Company: Compañía Lírico- Teatral Renacimiento
1931	The California International Theatre	El eterno Don Juan by Leo Ditrichstein	Kanellos, Nicolás. A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940. 1990, p. 40	Company: Compañía Lírico- Teatral Renacimiento
1931	The California International Theatre	En las redes de la araña	Kanellos, Nicolás. A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940. 1990, p. 40	Company: Compañía Lírico- Teatral Renacimiento
1931	The California International Theatre	La tía de Carlos	Kanellos, Nicolás. A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940. 1990, p. 40	Company: Compañía Lírico- Teatral Renacimiento

Diversifying the Classics

Diversifying the Classics has been directed by Barbara Fuchs, a UCLA Professor, since 2014. They translate, adapt, and perform a wide variety of early modern Spanish plays, specifically the comedia, in an effort to cultivate greater appreciation for the Spanish classics in Los Angeles. Many of their performances have been part of the Golden Tongues Performance Series, taking place during the annual LA Escena Theatre Festival.

Date	Location	Work	Reference	Company/People
June 29-30, 2013	UCLA Clark Memorial Library	Cervantes Interludes	Golden Tongues Page	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Author (of adaptation): Oliver Mayer Director: Jonathan Muñoz Proulx
June 29-30, 2013	UCLA Clark Memorial Library	Cause Célèbre (based on Ana Caro's Agravio y mujer)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Author (of adaptation): Velina Hasu Houston Director: Jon Lawrence Rivera
June 29-30, 2013	UCLA Clark Memorial Library	Painting in Red (based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca's El pintor de su deshonra)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Author (of adaptation): Luis Alfaro Director: Jon Lawrence Rivera
2014	Chalk Repertory Theater	Force of Habit (La fuerza de la costumbre by Guillén de Castro)	Production information Program	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Director: Ruth McKee
2014	Los Angeles Greenway Court Theater	Painting in Red (based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca's El pintor de su deshonra)	Fuchs, Barbara. “Diversifying the Classics: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater to Contemporary Los Angeles.” Comedia Performance, vol. 14, no. 1, 2017, pp. 129–151., https://doi.org/10.5325/comeperf.14.1.0129.	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Author (of adaptation): Luis Alfaro
September 6-7, 2014	UCLA Clark Memorial Library	Unhappily Married in Valencia (Los mal casados de Valencia by Guillén de Castro)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Author (of adaptation): Laurel Ollstein Director: Jennifer Chang
September 6-7, 2014	UCLA Clark Memorial Library	Goat Springs Eternal! (Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Author (of adaptation): Paula Cizmar Director: Douglas Clayton
September 6-7, 2014	UCLA Clark Memorial Library	Fixed (based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca's El medico de su honra)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Author (of adaptation): Boni B. Alvarez Director: Jon Lawrence Rivera
April 2015	Chalk Repertory Theater	Women and Servants (Mujeres y criados by Lope de Vega)	Production information Program	Company: Diversifying the Classics UCLA Director: Ruth McKee
April 29, 2015	Chalk Repertory Theater	Women and Servants (Mujeres y criados by Lope de Vega)	Production information Program	Company: Diversifying the Classics UCLA Director: Larissa Kokernot
June 6, 2015	Hershey Hall Cortile, UCLA	The Blade of Jealousy (based on Tirso de Molina's La celosa de si misma)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: Diversifying the Classics UCLA Author (of adaptation): Henry Ong Director: Jon Lawrence
June 6, 2015	Hershey Hall Cortile, UCLA	Dawg in the 626 (based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca's El perro del hortelano)	Golden Tongues Page	Company: Diversifying the Classics UCLA Author (of adaptation): Annette Lee Director: Dian Rodriguez
Fall 2015	UCLA	A Wild Night in Toledo (based on Lope de Vega's La noche toledana)	Fuchs, Barbara. “Diversifying the Classics: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater to Contemporary Los Angeles.” Comedia Performance, vol. 14, no. 1, 2017, pp. 129–151., https://doi.org/10.5325/comeperf.14.1.0129.	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Director: Michael Hackett
Fall 2015	UCLA	What We Owe Our Lives (based on Juan Ruiz de Álarcon's Los empeños de un engaño), staged reading	Fuchs, Barbara. “Diversifying the Classics: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater to Contemporary Los Angeles.” Comedia Performance, vol. 14, no. 1, 2017, pp. 129–151., https://doi.org/10.5325/comeperf.14.1.0129.	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Director: Michael Hackett
August 2016	Los Angeles Odyssey Theater	The Blade of Jealousy (based on Tirso de Molina's La celosa de si misma), staged reading	Fuchs, Barbara. “Diversifying the Classics: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater to Contemporary Los Angeles.” Comedia Performance, vol. 14, no. 1, 2017, pp. 129–151., https://doi.org/10.5325/comeperf.14.1.0129.	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Author (of adaptation): Henry Ong
October 1, 2017	Cal Poly Pomona, Southern California Shakespeare Festival	Force of Habit (based on Guillén de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre)	Production information Program	Companies: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA; Department of Theatre and New Dance at Cal Poly Pomona
October 12-13, 2019	Charles E. Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall	Various works: Comedia Slam event	Production information	Companies: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA; Spain Arts and Culture
November 19, 2020	Online, hosted by Red Bull Theater	“An interactive discussion with some of the artists involved and scholar Barbara Fuchs.”	Production information	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA
April 9, 2021	Online (webinar)	Romeos & Julietas: All Alike in Dignity (about the bilingual version of Romeo and Juliet in conversation with Lope de Vega's Castelvines y Monteses)	Program and production information	Companies: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Directors: Dakin Matthews, Carla Della Gatta, Barbara Fuchs
February 21, 2022	Radio Comedia podcast, Spotify	Mujeres y Criados by Lope de Vega), episodes 1-3	Production information	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA
April 11, 2922	Radio Comedia podcast, Spotify	Mujeres y Criados by Lope de Vega), full work	Production information	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA
September 12, 2022	Online, hosted by Red Bull Theater	The Capulets and the Montagues (Castelvines y Monteses by Lope de Vega)	LA Escena Festival Information Production information	Company: Diversifying the Classics, UCLA Author (of adaptation): Dakin Matthews
September 18, 2022	MacGowan Hall Courtyard, UCLA	Spain and New Spain: Early Music	Production information Program	Company: UCLA Early Music Ensemble Contributors: Juan del Encina, Santiago de Murcia, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and more

Other

Date	Location	Author	Reference	Company/People
July 28, 1931	The Figueroa Playhouse	Fata Morgana by Ernest Vajda	Kanellos, Nicolás. A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Origins to 1940. 1990, p. 40 La Opinión, July 28, 1931	Actors: Elvira Morla and Carlos Villaríos
October 6 - November 12, 1978	Inner City Cultural Center	La celestina (original by Fernando de Rojas)	Heras, Juan Pablo. "Aventura Americana: Una Celestina Incomprensible." Ciudadano del teatro: Álvaro Custodio, director de escena. 1978.	Author (of adaptation): Álvaro Custodio Other: Octavio R. Costa, journalist
November 8-9, 11-12, 16-18, 2017	Cal State, Martin Luther King Hall	Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega	Cal State Theatre/Dance	Company: Cal State Department of Theater Director: Anna Estrada (guest director)
November 11, 2017	McMaster University School of the Arts	Women and Servants	McMaster School of the Arts Diversifying the Classics	Company: McMaster School of the Arts Director: Peter Crockett
March 29- April 1, 2018	USC Scene Dock Theatre	The Labyrinth of Desire (based on Lope de Vega's La prueba de los ingenios)	Program	Company: USC School of Dramatic Arts Author (of adaptation): Caridad Svich Director: Denise Blasor
September 17, 2022	Little Theater, MacGowen Hall UCLA	Numancia by Miguel de Cervantes	LA Escena Festival Information More info	Companies: Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, Nao D'Amores
September 18, 2022	Little Theater, MacGowen Hall UCLA	El animal de Hungría by Lope de Vega	LA Escena Festival Information More info	Company: EscenaTe and Colectivo Állatok (Madrid)
February 16-25, 2023	ARTS Studio Theatre	The Widow of Valencia (La viuda valenciana by Lope de Vega)	Production information	Company: UC Riverside Author (of adaptation): Diversifying the Classics UCLA)