The Mephisto Theatre company presented the play Donde hay agravios no hay celos, by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, on Sunday in the Santo Domingo Plaza during the Festival de Teatro de Almagro in Spain.
Read MoreEduardo Sanchez Torel is an Argentinian-born actor with a distinguished career in Spain and Cuba. As he noted, “I appreciate the struggle of Mariela Castro to change things.”
Read MoreSome 40 intellectuals from twelve countries are meeting today at Havana’s Colegio Universitario de San Jeronimo as part of the International Piñera Conference, which is marking the centenary of the birth of the controversial Cuban writer.
Read MoreRecently in Havana the renown Teatro Escambray theater troupe, under the direction of Carlos Perez Peña, premiered the play Ensayo para Siete (Rehearsal for Seven) by the Polish playwright Boluslaw Schaeffer. The presentation was part of a week of Polish culture celebrated in the Cuban capital. (13 photos)
Read More“I was a student of music at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, in my fourth year studying piano, with some great teachers, and one day I came home and told my family to sell the piano because I wasn’t going to continue studying music, I wanted to be a great storyteller,” Mayra Navarro told HT.
Read MoreThe collective creation “Woman of Flesh and Milk” just had its premiere at the Bertolt Brecht Theater in the Cuban capital. The work is a creative space where artists from different stage disciplines work on the concept of gender violence; the effort has also generated several audiovisual materials. (10 photos)
Read MoreWith over 200 poets from close to 40 countries, the 16th Havana International Poetry Festival began on Monday and will continue through May 27. This year it is dedicated to the Cuban poet and playwright Virgilio Piñera, and to the creation of Afro-Caribbean poetry.
Read MoreThe award-winning Spanish actress Victoria Abril will attend the First Latin American Monologue Festival, which is being organized by the Tomas Terry Theater in Cienfuegos, confirmed the head of the institution.
Read MoreActor and director Hassane Kouyate of Burkino Faso will be in Havana starting today for the international “Owners of the Word” festival, which will also include oral storytellers from Haiti and Cuba.
Read MoreThe Cuban Writers and Artists Association (UNEAC) presented a show today at its headquarters in the capital on the occasion of celebrations around World Theatre Day.
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