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Dr. Carla Della Gatta
@carladellagatta.bsky.social
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Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻
Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares
Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad
https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/
https://www.carladellagatta.com/
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Dr. Carla Della Gatta @carladellagatta.bsky.social · Sep 15
In honor of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15), I will be posting about Latinx theatre and performance over the next thirty days. Celebrating my culture through the arts! #LatinSky #HispanicHeritageMonth #hispanic #latinx #latino #theatre #teatro #theatrebsky #theatresky
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Post you from a different era

2002. Just after I completed the LA Marathon.
October 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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#ShakespeareSunday The Folger Shakespeare Library published my blog about Latinx Shakespeares of the 20th century. Cover image of Irene Cara in Aaron Loves Angela (1975), a Romeo and Juliet-inspired film.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
#HispanicHeritageMonth ##theatre #theatrebsky #theatresky
October 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Happy #InternationalTranslationDay!
Diversifying the Classics is a great resource for Siglo de Oro plays. Translations are free online. They host a theatre festival, La Escena, in Los Angeles.
diversifyingtheclassics.humanities.ucla.edu
#ITD #ITD2025 #translation #TheatreSky #TheatreBsky
Homepage - Diversifying the Classics
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September 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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#HispanicHeritageMonth + #ShakespeareSunday
Here's Raúl Esparza reading Sonnet 29 in Spanish
translated by Colombian poet William Ospina
"When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xElk...
Brave New Shakespeare Challenge - Sonnet 29 with Raúl Esparza | The Public Theater
YouTube video by PublicTheaterNY
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September 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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#Caturday
September 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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#HispanicHeritageMonth Thinking back to that time during lockdown when Colman Domingo gave an hour-long talk and conversation on playwriting. He was so gracious and encouraging. Free to watch on @howlround.bsky.social
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#LatinSky #theatre #teatro #theatrebsky #theatresky
Latinx Superfriends Playwriting Hour with Colman Domingo
A Latinx-led playwriting series featuring writers/theatremakers from across the U.S.|Tlaloc Rivas presented the Latinx Superfriends Playwriting Hour with Colman Domingo livestreamed on the global, com...
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September 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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My article on how the performing arts can be incorporated as a method for public humanities has just been published in the online, open-access journal, Public Humanities. Free to download. #publichumanities #AcademicSky #PerformingArts #HigherEd #theatre #arts
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September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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#HispanicHeritageMonth SolFest 2025 is 9/28-10/2, with
online and in-person events, including a Sunday picnic, Latiné ShortsFest film screenings, and staged readings of work by seasoned and emergent playwrights. #LatinSky #theatre #teatro #theatrebsky #theatresky
www.solproject.org/solfest
September 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Washington, DC Theatre Week starts today! Runs 9/18-10/5. Lots of shows with low-price tickets.
#theatre #teatro #theatrebsky #theatresky #dclife
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5 Reasons to Enjoy Theatre Week 2025 in Washington, DC | Washington DC
More than 20 productions offer $25, $45 and $65 tickets, Sept. 18 – Oct. 5
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September 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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#HispanicHeritageMonth My essay on Bilingual Shakespeares for the Folger Shakespeare Library. With photos of Martin Sheen as Hamlet, Elizabeth Peña as Juliet, and this one from the 2022 Measure for Measure at Chicago Shakespeare. #shakespeare #AcademicSky #latinx
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Bilingual Shakespeares | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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September 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#HispanicHeritageMonth TEATRX theatre in Houston announced the lineup for their La Vida es Cortos Festival 11/28-11/30. Short plays and films, Pay-What-You-Can tickets, and shows for kids under 13 are free.
#LatinSky #latinx #theatre #teatro #theatrebsky #theatresky
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7th Annual La Vida Es Cortos/Life is Shorts Festival
Annual short film and short play festival celebrating the diverse Latinx culture, traditions, and stories!
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September 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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#HispanicHeritageMonth Candela brings together playwrights and lyricists of Latin American and Caribbean heritage for a summer intensive. Applications aren't until spring, but you can join their mailing list. #latinx #latino #theatrebsky #theatresky
www.broadwayworld.com/article/Cand...
Candela Announces Fellows for Third Annual Playwrights Summer Fellowship Program
Candela, a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to expanding access to theater education for playwrights, book writers, and lyricists of Latin American and Caribbean heritage, has announced the fellows...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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In honor of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month (September 15 - October 15), I will be posting about Latinx theatre and performance over the next thirty days. Celebrating my culture through the arts! #LatinSky #HispanicHeritageMonth #hispanic #latinx #latino #theatre #teatro #theatrebsky #theatresky
September 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Residency for playwrights and composers #theatre #writing #artists
americantheatre.org American Theatre @americantheatre.org · Sep 2
LDK Productions has announced the LDK Writers’ Residency at CAM Studios for Playwrights and Composers, a new initiative that will develop original plays and musicals with 3 annual residencies. 
LDK Productions Launches Writers’ Residency at CAM Studios
New initiative will award 3 annual residencies for new-work development.
www.americantheatre.org
September 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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One day free convening on “Creative Labor, Creative Conditions” at Arena Stage in Washington, DC on 9/22. #dclife #theatre #theatresky #artists #dmvarts
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Creative Labor, Creative Conditions | DC Jazz Festival
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August 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Writer/Visual Artist/Film/Music Residency in Auvillar, France with flexible duration and start dates. Next deadline is September 15th. They offer several fully-funded fellowships each round. #artists #theatresky #theatrebsky #writers #writesky #writingcommunity
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August 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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#Caturday
August 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, is offering a Bilingual Shakespeares acting & dramaturgy intensive on 9/20. FREE. Register by 9/1. www.shakespearetheatre.org/index.php/al...
#Latinx #teatro #theatre #TheatreBSKY #theatresky #DClife
August 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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May the 4th Be With You. #starwars #StarWarsDay
May 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Reposted by Dr. Carla Della Gatta
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Harvey Fierstein to Receive Special Lifetime Achievement Award at 2025 Tonys
Harvey Fierstein to Receive Special Lifetime Achievement Award at 2025 Tonys
Cynthia Erivo hosts the 78th Tony Awards June 8 on CBS and Paramount+
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April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Joan Didion ephemera at the NYPL. #didion #writers

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The NYPL's special collections room has become 'Club Didion'
Didion kept everything, even ongoing correspondence to try to cancel her daughter’s Columbia House Record Club membership in the 1980s. It's all now at the NYPL.
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April 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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It’s been a tough week, to say the least. Thank goodness for kitties and coffee. #caturday #CatsofSky
April 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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NEH staff put on immediate leave. #academicsky
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National Endowment for the Humanities staff put on immediate leave
A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.
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April 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Taking a moment to celebrate that after more than two years, my monograph, Latinx Shakespeares, is still going strong. It can be downloaded as a pdf or on e-readers for free. www.latinxshakespeares.org #latinx #academicsky #teatro #shakespeare
April 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Cherry blossoms in bloom in Washington, DC. If you Google “cherry blossoms dc” the petals fall down your screen. #dclife
April 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM