Federico Garcia Lorca News

Commedia Beauregard, a Chicago-based theatre company dedicated to producing plays in translation, announces the return of its short play festival of paintings turned into original works for the stage. Master Works: The Degas Plays will be presented at the Den Theatre for one weekend only -- May 29th through June 1st, 2014.

Continuing its commitment to promoting growth and innovation in Philadelphia's cultural community, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation tonight awarded $780,000 to 19 Philadelphia artists and arts groups.

Profiles Theatre announces the Midwest premiere of Annapurna by Sharr White, opening at The Alley Stage, 4147 N. Broadway on June 12, 2014. Annapurna, directed by Profiles ensemble member Eric Burgher and featuring ensemble member Darrell W. Cox, runs June 6, 2014 - July 20, 2014 with the press opening on Thursday, June 12 at 8:00pm. The previously announced production ofHunter Gatherers by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb has been postponed until further notice.

West Palm Beach's only professional multi-award-winning resident theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, concludes its Dramalogue series --- a series that explores working in the theatre --- on April 8 live onstage at The Don & Ann Brown Theatre (201 Clematis Street). Produced by Mark Perlberg and Sponsored by Nancy and Jay Parker, this exciting series consists of conversations and presentations spotlighting iconic theatre artists and professionals.

The Music Institute of Chicago joins the national celebration of Music In Our Schools Month with a morning of music for all ages Today, March 15 at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston.

Opera Philadelphia presents its staging of Golijov's controversial short opera on Garcia Lorca

The Music Institute of Chicago joins the national celebration of Music In Our Schools Month with a morning of music for all ages Saturday, March 15 at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston.

West Palm Beach's only professional multi-award-winning resident theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, continues its Dramalogue series--- a new initiative that explores working in the theatre --- on February 4 live onstage at The Don & Ann Brown Theatre (201 Clematis Street). Produced by Mark Perlberg and Sponsored by Nancy and Jay Parker, this new series consists of conversations and presentations spotlighting iconic theatre artists and professionals. The series runs on select Tuesdays thru April 8th, 2014.

The Lark Play Development Center in collaboration with Mexico's National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) is pleased to announce the 2013 Mexico/ U.S. Playwright Exchange Program. For the eighth year the Lark will host playwrights from Mexico and pair them with bilingual U.S. playwrights, actors, and directors for a ten day cultural exploration that establishes ongoing channels of communication between artists in both countries.

The Lark Play Development Center in collaboration with Mexico's National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) is pleased to announce the 2013 Mexico/ U.S. Playwright Exchange Program. For the eighth year the Lark will host playwrights from Mexico and pair them with bilingual U.S. playwrights, actors, and directors for a ten day cultural exploration that establishes ongoing channels of communication between artists in both countries.

Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the award-winning producing arm of the St. Edward's University professional theatre training program, continues its 41st anniversary season with Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, running tonight, November 14 - 24, 2013.

Profiles Theatre announces that actor Paul Dillon returns to the role he originated in the 1992 world premiere of Hellcab by Will Kern for Profiles' holiday season revival of their hit production. Once again, Profiles Artistic Director Darrell W. Cox returns to direct a cast of 34 with Dillon joining the cast as the beleaguered cab driver and ensemble member Eric Burgher assistant directing. Profiles' production runs at The Main Stage, 4139 N. Broadway, tonight, November 8, 2013 - January 12, 2014. Please note new opening date: Wednesday, November 13, at 8:00 pm.

Llega a la Argentina, una de las mas importantes compañias de Flamenco a nivel Mundial, de la mano del talentoso maestro bailador. ADRIAN GALIA presentando su espectaculo -- 'GIGANTES DEL FLAMENCO' -- Flamenco Suite. Inspirado en la obra poetica de Federico Garcia Lorca. 5 y 6 de NOVIEMBRE 21:00hs, Teatro Astral, Corrientes 1639 - CABA.

Gary Naylor sees an emotional play.

Profiles Theatre announces that actor Paul Dillon returns to the role he originated in the 1992 world premiere of Hellcab by Will Kern for Profiles' holiday season revival of their hit production. Once again, Profiles Artistic Director Darrell W. Cox returns to direct a cast of 34 with Dillon joining the cast as the beleaguered cab driver and ensemble member Eric Burgher assistant directing. Profiles' production runs at The Main Stage, 4139 N. Broadway, November 8, 2013 - January 12, 2014. Please note new opening date: Wednesday, November 13, at 8:00 pm.

Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the award-winning producing arm of the St. Edward's University professional theatre training program, continues its 41st anniversary season with Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, running November 14 - 24, 2013.

Moonrise Press is pleased to announce the publication of a volume of poetry inspired by a six-and-a-half-day ordeal of Ed Rosenthal, a Poet-Broker, who survived alone after being lost in the Mojave Desert in September 2010. An experienced hiker, he unexpectedly veered far away from his usual route and could not find his way back. While in Salvation Canyon, he was several times missed by search-and-rescue aircraft and helicopters, and finally, miraculously, was found by San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputies. The wry, surreal, and reflective poems in 'The Desert Hat: Survival Poems' describe the spiritual trajectory of a survivor living through a close encounter with death, starting from alienation in a corporate urban environment and ending with the post-trauma reflections about life and natural environment. The book consists of 36 poems organized in four sections, reflecting the distinct stages in the spiritual and personal journey, from getting off track, through searching for a way back, through hallucinations in a hostile desert environment, finding shelter in the shade of Salvation Canyon, to being rescued and experiencing the world after the return from the brink of death. The title alludes to a canvas hat that Rosenthal used as a notebook and helped the lost poet control his thoughts, capture emotions, and write down his last will and a farewell to his wife and daughter. The 12 illustrations include photos of the famous hat. This is Ed Rosenthal's first book-length publication. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-9819693-7-4, 74 pages. E-Book, ISBN 978-0-9819693-9-8. Future Readings · Sunday, November 10, 2013 - Featured Poet at Beyond Baroque Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Venice, 681 Venice Blvd. · Sunday, November 24, 2013 - Featured Poet at Village Poets Monthly Reading Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Avenue, Tujunga, CA 91042. About Ed Rosenthal Ed Rosenthal, 'Poet/Broker of Downtown Los Angeles,' was known for using his verses to keep his escrows going. Taking the opposite tact of iconic modernist poets Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot, who kept their day jobs at a seeming distance from their poetry, 'Poet/Broker' employed poetry as a tool in commercial real estate. Rosenthal's 'Poetic Request for 30 day Extension of Contingencies' was cited in the Los Angeles Times for enabling a redevelopment project. His Wall Street Journal piece admonished clients in couplets. To place poetic legitimacy on his state-issued real estate licenses, Rosenthal had some signed by world renowned writers, including Seamus Heaney and Evan Boland. Prior to his near-death experience, he was already bored with the persona of the 'Poet/Broker.' A fan of Federico Garcia Lorca, Rosenthal began to work with poems carrying lunar motifs in urban landscapes. Survival of a harrowing near-death experience in the Mojave Desert in 2010 has deepened this imagistic writer's divorce from practicality in the direction of spiritual exploration. About 'The Desert Hat' In 'The Desert Hat,' Los Angeles poet/real estate broker Ed Rosenthal presents the mythopoetic journey through his real-life experience of being lost for 6 days in remote canyons of the Mojave Desert's Joshua Tree National Park in September, 2010. 'The Desert Hat' delves deeply into the wildest and unpredictable heart of the Mojave into a storied landscape that Rosenthal renders as both recognizable to the reader and also deeply specific to his solitary and unanticipated experience, and in these poems, creates an empathetic and spiritually-affirming desert landscape that resonates within all of our desert hearts. - Ruth Nolan. Professor of English @ College of the Desert, California desert poet, writer, editor, conservationist & scholar Ed Rosenthal's 'The Desert Hat' not only recounts an incredibly vivid story of survival, but maps out the dangerous journeys of the heart and the imagination in that hallucinatory place between mind and body, between nature and man, between the past and the future. Like poet James Wright, Rosenthal 'goes/ Back to the broken ground' of the self and finds a stranger there trapped in the cosmology of an endless, unpitying desert. As the stark 'sun burns holes/ into the sky' the psyche's true-north compass finds salvation's shade. Rosenthal climbed out of 'the busted monster's mouth' with a beautiful, moving book. - Elena Karina Byrne, Executive Director of AVK Arts, author of The Flammable Bird Masque and Squander To Book a Reading, Please Contact: Ed Rosenthal: poetbroker@yahoo.com For Book Inquiries, Please Contact: Dr. Maja Trochimczyk maja@moonrisepress.com 818-384-8944

FABnyc presents its 10th annual FAB! Festival, taking place today, September 28, 2013 from 1-5PM on East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery.

Llega a la Argentina, una de las mas importantes compañias de Flamenco a nivel Mundial, de la mano del talentoso maestro bailador. ADRIAN GALIA presentando su espectaculo -- 'GIGANTES DEL FLAMENCO' -- Flamenco Suite. Inspirado en la obra poetica de Federico Garcia Lorca. 5 y 6 de NOVIEMBRE 21:00hs, Teatro Astral, Corrientes 1639 - CABA.

Mary Moody Northen Theatre, the award-winning producing arm of the St. Edward's University theatre training program, announces its 2013-2014 season, featuring four (4) outstanding plays ranging from classic to contemporary. Join us for our 41st anniversary season and share in the fun and excitement at the theatre on the hill!