Orlando Mora Cabrera and Manuel Ojeda Hernandez, two young people who have come together to do creative work, are tracing a future for themselves in the world of film and are already advancing novel ideas. “We wanted for children to explore their own reality,” Orlando tells us during his interview for Havana Times.
Read MoreIn this version of the play, Cremata invites audiences to reflect on the story of King Berenguer (Berenjena, “eggplant,” in this adaptation), a dictator who has been in power for over two hundred years, who finds out he is going to die in an hour – by the end of the play, that is to say.
Read MoreCarlos Gonzalez is the director of a historical and one-of-a-kind company in Cuba. His aim is to “guarantee that Cuba’s only string puppet company, now 25 years old, has a future.”
Read MoreWalking around the center city we came across by chance an event taking place on the San Rafael Blvd. pedestrian zone on the grounds that was once the El Encanto department store. The Carnavaleando Interactive Theater Company was holding one of their street performances. (21 photos)
Read MoreA young woman entered the stage carrying two actors on piggy-back. “Ladies and gentlemen, our donkey has died,” they said. As of that moment, a recent Sunday morning was marked by excitement and humor at Old Havana’s La Proa* Theater.(20 photos)
Read MoreAfter the triumph of the revolution, when Hilda Oates was a woman over thirty, she was able to enroll in an acting course. With much work and sacrifice, she would become one of the greats of the Cuban stage.
Read MoreThe prestigious London Globe Theatre company will present two functions in Havana on August 7th, the 450th anniversary of the birth of English writer William Shakespeare. A rendition of the classic “Hamlet” will be premiered in the Teatro Mella.
Read MoreTheater expert Vivian Martinez Tabares talks to us about the Latin American and Caribbean Theater Festival (Mayo Teatral) to be held in Havana from May 16 to 25. These rich diversity of plays will be staged in different theaters around the capital, such as the Sala Llaurado, the Bertolt Brecht Cultural Center, Mella Theater, the Guiñol, Nacional and Trianón theaters, as well as the Ciervo Encantado and Casa de las Americas theater halls (all located in Vedado).
Read MoreThese pictures are of what was the first public function in the newly reopened Marti Theatre in Havana. The report starts from the entrance to the theater, where the spectators were greeted by masked characters carrying candlesticks, followed by the performances and finally all the artists gathered on stage. (27 photos)
Read MoreAfter over 40 years of being closed, Havana’s Marti Theater was reopened the last week of February. We visited the theater a few days later to capture some of the restoration work in pictures. (28 photos)
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