A poet of all impossible dreams, Fernando Pessoa made of Ludwig of Bavaria a figure of his reign of melancholy, and Ludwig populated his actual reign with phantasmagoric castles in which he housed and exorcized and incurable melancholy.

Six Latin American playwrights demonstrate the difficulties faced by abandoned children in the region’s major cities in a theatrical production titled La Cruzada de los Niños de la Calle (The Street Children’s Crusade).

Why do so few people know the name Sa’dallah Wannous? The breadth, complexity and importance of his dramatic and critical contribution are certainly comparable to contemporaries such as Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, and Augusto Boal.

Editor and author of introduction to conference proceedings. CASAR’s third international conference seeks to examine the ruptures and connections created by current and past encounters between America and the Middle East — whether economic, political, or cultural — as they have been narrated and as they have been experienced.

“Gross Indecency” is the second nonprofit drama to make a commercial move this season. Paula Vogel’s play about pedophilia, ”How I Learned to Drive,” starring Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse, and directed by Mark Brokaw.

Viva o povo brasilerio, João Ubaldo’s novel on the history of Brazil from the 17th century to the 1970s, is a radically contingent fictional interpretation of Brazilian history that denies the existence of self-subsistent facts.

She was a typical girl from Rio who became the highest-paid woman in the United States.

By the time she was twenty, she already had her eye on a career that is like the ones contemporary women have. But she paid a high price for fame: electric shock treatments for depression and dependence on drugs to maintain her energy as she toured internationally.

There is a delightful confusion upon hearing Nana Vasconcelos’ new album Rain Dance. It’s not unlike what you experience as a child when you first walk through the woods alone or take a bus by yourself to the center of the city.

His voice is so self-assured that each composition sounds and reads like a poem crafted by a master at the peak of his powers.

Abdul: I’m not sure. I either want to open my own carpet shop or murder Americans. I haven’t decided which yet.

Sex has always been a difficult subject to teach in American schools because, unlike most courses, which are how-to – Math, Reading, Writing, etc. – sex has always been a why-not-to course.