Onstage This Week: Nov. 21-27

From chimney sweeps to dancing tea pots, from Chicago to Cincinnati, it is another varied week for theatre.

The Bard in Africa: A Proof Test of Universality

Western colonizers thought Shakespeare proved their cultural superiority, but a new book explores what his plays have meant to the colonized.

The leader will join the company in January 2017.

Multiplicity defines our past and our future, and nowhere is this more true than in the Latinx theatre movement in the U.S.

Latinx theatre as we know it in the U.S. is only half a century old, but its roots are deep and its future boundless.

Luis Valdez’s company retains both its Chicano identity and its broader mission. Next: the return of the troupe’s most famous creation, ‘Zoot Suit.’

Founded a decade apart and now merged, Pregones and Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre keep the cart rolling.

The NYC-based initiative isn’t just scoring productions for Latinx playwrights—it’s hoping to make their work bloom and plant seeds for more.

Working Latinx actors discuss how far the theatre industry has come and the ways it can still grow.

As scholars join a freshly revivified and organized Latinx theatre movement, the question of their role is no longer academic.