The holiday season is a time of family ritual – setting up Advent calendars, decking the halls, and reliving favorite stories. Whether you prefer “'Twas the Night…
Many years after they met in high school, three women get together to remember the old days. They have gone in separate directions, and their grudges have…
https://vimeo.com/110184993 After four months of rigorous planning, the National Theater finally unleashed its birthday fiesta on San José, and thousand showed up to celebrate. The daylong event started…
Imagine a birthday cake large enough to feed 5,000 people. Now imagine that this cake is shaped like the National Theater in downtown San José. The colossal…
For lack of a better word, “Los Enredos de Juan Vainas” is completely loco. For two hours, actors run frantically around the stage. They tell dirty jokes.…
On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero celebrated his final Mass in a small chapel in his native El Salvador. As soon as he finished his sermon,…
When a gunman assassinated Óscar Romero in 1980, the archbishop of San Salvador became one of the most famous martyrs in world history. Other Catholic priests had…
As a story, “Sonrisa de Tiburón” isn’t all that complicated: An explorer flies a plane to a distant island, then scuba-dives into the surrounding waters. Fish and…
“To be or not to be, that is the question.” These words are among the most famous in the English language, thanks to William Shakespeare, who turned…
In the 1970s, playwright Peter Shaffer wrote two masterpieces: “Equus,” the story of a boy who hammers nails into the eyes of horses, and “Amadeus,” chronicling the…
