EgoPo Classic Theater in Philadelphia will continue their 2021-2022 Season of Awakenings and Transformations with the world premiere adaptation of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Life is a Dream.

Vitalist Theatre, in association with Premiere Theatre and Performance, will present Calderon de la Barca's LIFE IS A DREAM, in a New Version by Helen Edmundson and staged by Elizabeth Carlin-Metz ...

“I am,” says JoAnne Akalaitis, “not very articulate about this play.” The vaunted director is sitting in a Hyde Park coffee shop chatting about “Life Is a Dream,&#8221… ...

Spoken by a wayfarer to her unruly steed, these three words make up the first sentence of Kenneth Cavander’s new translation of “Life Is a Dream,” the Spanish classic by Pedro Calderon de la ...

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Dreams may be the theme — as in, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep,” as Shakespeare put it — but there’s little chance you’ll fall ...

Pedro Calderon de la Barca I first came across him in graduate school at Columbia and was entranced by his masterpiece, “Life is a Dream” (1635), a fabulous tale of human freedom battling to ...

A revered but somewhat unwieldy classic of Spanish drama comes vividly to life in Repertorio Español's production of La Vida Es Sueño (Life Is a Dream). This masterpiece by prolific 17th-century ...

Building Stage lives up to its name with its latest production. This utilitarian take on Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 17th-century play gives the impression that something fresh and significant ...

But none are as poetic as Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s 1635 drama, in which Prince Segismundo of Poland, imprisoned in a dark cavern by his father, must learn the meaning of honor and ...

CSUN’s theater department is resurrecting a centuries-old classic, “Life is a Dream,” the thought-provoking Spanish language play written by Pedro Calderón de la Barca in the mid-1600’s. “The play is ...