INTAR Theatre
Founding Director: Max Ferrá (1966 - 2004)
Artistic Director: Lou Moreno (2010-present)
Artistic Director: Eduardo Machado (2004-2010)
An organization committed to the development of "theater arts without borders," it is the oldest Latino theatre company in the USA producing in English. Originally, the company's mission was to produce work by Latin American, Spanish and Hispanic (sic) playwrights in English. It's current mission is here.
INTAR was founded in 1966 as Adal by Max Ferrá. In 1971, he joined forces with Magaly Alabau and Manuel Martín Jr. of DUO Theater and Adal was renamed INTAR (International Arts Relations). In the early years, it produced plays in Spanish by important European and North American playwrights. Their productions switched to English in 1977, when INTAR joined the Off-Broadway 42nd Street Theatre Row Complex. Over the past four decades, INTAR has produced classics, Latino adaptations of classics, cabarets, and over 70 world premiers of plays written by Latino-Americans. The company's Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Laboratory (HPRL), created and run by María Irene Fornés from 1981 until 1992, fostered and trained many of the most prominent Latino playwrights in the American theatre, including Migdalia Cruz, Eduardo Machado, Carmelita Tropicana, and Nilo Cruz (2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). For an economic analysis of HPRL see Marcela Arcos Holzinger, "An Economic Analysis of INTAR's Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Lab." To date, the theater has commissioned, developed, and produced works by more than 175 Latino writers, composers, and choreographers. It has assisted hundreds of Latino playwrights, directors, and actors in obtaining their first professional theater credits, union memberships, and reviews in English-language media. "There's scarcely a Latino artist in America who hasn't been supported or trained or produced by INTAR" (Oscar Eustis, quoted in Liesl Schillinger, "The Playwright Rewriting Latino Theater." The New York Times, Dec 12, 2004).
INTAR Multi-Cultural Gallery, founded and directed by Inverna Lockpez in 1979, exhibited artists whose work was a "a catalyst for new thinking, new dialogue." Their exhibits included important artists from Latin America and the US. Between 1985 and 1991, Art in America included it as one of the 15 most influential alternative art galleries in the US.
(Information taken from INTAR's web site, Ollantay's Theater Magazine X1.21 (2003), a special issue on Manuel Martín Jr. and José Corrales, and International Arts Relations Inc. A Retrospective.)
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Artistic Director: Lou Moreno (2010-present)
Founding Director: Max Ferrá (1966 - 2004)
Artistic Director: Eduardo Machado (2004-2010)
The oldest Latino theatre company in the USA producing in English, INTAR Theatre’s mission is to develop and produce the best new works for theatre in English by U.S. Latino writers for the American theatre audience.
INTAR was founded in 1966 as Adal by Max Ferrá. In 1971, he joined forces with Magaly Alabau and Manuel Martín Jr. of DUO Theater and Adal was renamed INTAR. Originally, the company's mission was to produce work by Latin American, Spanish and Hispanic (sic) playwrights in English. In 2004, Eduardo Machado became its artistic director.
Since its founding, INTAR has presented over 65 world premieres of new plays by U.S. Latino authors. The company's Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Laboratory (HPRL), created and run by María Irene Fornés from 1981 until 1992, fostered and trained many of the most prominent Latino playwrights in the American theatre, including Migdalia Cruz, Eduardo Machado, Carmelita Tropicana, and Nilo Cruz (2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). For an economic analysis of HPRL see Marcela Arcos Holzinger, "An Economic Analysis of INTAR's Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Lab."
(Information taken from INTAR's web site and from Ollantay's Theater Magazine X1.21 (2003), a special issue on Manuel Martín Jr. and José Corrales.)
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Related to
Elsa Ortiz, Co-founder,
1966
Related to Max Ferrá, Founder, 1966 2004
Related to Louis Moreno, Artistic Director, 2010
Related to Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director, 2004 2010
Productions: +
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Satyricoño
Theater company
INTAR Theatre
June 19, 2015 - June 21, 2015 -
Pinkolandia
Theater company
INTAR Theatre
May 3, 2013 - May 26, 2013 -
All Eyes and Ears
Theater company
Theatre Row
April 30, 2008 - May 22, 2008 -
Points of Departure
Theater company
Kirk Theater
March 7, 2006 - March 12, 2006 -
Twenty Shadows
Theater company
Kirk Theater
January 21, 2006 - January 22, 2006 -
The Undoing of Berta
Theater company
Kirk Theater
January 20, 2006 - January 21, 2006 -
With Love, Gabe
Theater company
Kirk Theater
January 13, 2006 - January 15, 2006 -
Havana Bourgeois
Theater company
59E59 Theaters
January 8, 2006 - February 5, 2006 -
Animus
Theater company
Kirk Theater
January 6, 2006 - January 29, 2006 -
Deep Song
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
January 27, 2005 -
I'm With Mauricio
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
June 25, 2004 - June 27, 2004 -
Gray Sun
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
June 25, 2004 - June 27, 2004 -
3 to a Session: A Monster's Tale
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
June 18, 2004 - June 20, 2004 -
Undone
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
June 11, 2004 - June 13, 2004 -
NewWorks Lab 2004
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
June 4, 2004 - June 27, 2004 -
Camino/Montaña
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
2004 -
The Cook
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
November 20, 2003 - January 4, 2004 -
Faith, Hope, and Charity
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
May 30, 2003 - June 29, 2003 -
Drawn and Quartered
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
April 18, 2003 - May 11, 2003 -
Memories of Our Women
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
April 18, 2003 - May 11, 2003 -
Whisper
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
April 18, 2003 - May 11, 2003 -
Havana Under the Sea
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
February 28, 2003 - April 13, 2003 -
The Monster in the Garden
Theater company
The Pearl Theatre - Theatre 80
February 24, 2003 -
Customs
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
January 23, 2003 - February 2, 2003 -
The Tropic of X
Theater company
Playwrights Horizons Theatre School
2003 -
Ties That Bind: 3 Plays in Rep
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
May 21, 2002 - June 30, 2002 -
Habanera: A Play with Songs
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
February 24, 2002 -
The Alamo
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
January 4, 2002 - January 20, 2002 -
San Diego Street Padres
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
June 15, 2001 - June 17, 2001 -
Tight Embrace
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
June 8, 2001 - June 10, 2001 -
Nuyorican Voices: 3 Plays in Rep
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
March 13, 2001 - April 22, 2001 -
Miriam's Flowers
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
March 13, 2001 - April 22, 2001 -
Sebastián
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
March 31, 2000 -
Pilgrim's Passion
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INTAR 53 Theatre
March 24, 2000 -
Fool's Journey
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INTAR 53 Theatre
March 17, 2000 -
Fool's Journey
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
March 17, 2000 -
I Never Even Seen My Father
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
March 10, 2000 -
Arrivals and Departures
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
May 7, 1999 - May 9, 1999 -
Odiseo, Could You Stop For Some Bread and Eggs on Your Way Home? A Ten Minute Play
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
April 30, 1999 - May 2, 1999 -
As Five Years Pass
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
October 28, 1998 - November 26, 1998 -
Buster Keaton Takes a Walk
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1998 -
The Maiden, the Sailor, and the Student
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1998 -
The Next Stop (La próxima parada)
Theater company
New York, New York
1997 -
Away Down Dreaming
Theater company
Evidence Room Theatre
1996 -
Shelter
Theater company
Evidence Room Theatre
1996 -
Nostalgia Tropical
Theater company
Playhouse 91
1993 -
The Antitragedy of Zoila and Pilar (Scattered Showers)
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INTAR 53 Theatre
April 14, 1992 -
Mango Grove
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Unknown1
April 12, 1992 -
Me! Me! Me!
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Unknown1
April 11, 1992 -
A Bicycle Country
Theater company
Unknown1
April 10, 1992 -
The Lady from Havana
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INTAR 53 Theatre
March 18, 1992 - April 19, 1992 -
Our Lady of the Tortilla
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INTAR 53 Theatre
October 9, 1991 - November 10, 1991 -
The Have-Little
Theater company
New York, New York
May 29, 1991 - June 30, 1991 -
Doña Ramona
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1991 -
Perfidia
Theater company
New York, New York
1991 -
Marriage of Convenience
Theater company
Unknown1
December 1, 1990 -
The Opium Wars
Theater company
New York, New York
November 30, 1990 -
Boot Days
Theater company
New York, New York
November 29, 1990 -
Gee
Theater company
New York, New York
November 27, 1990 -
Shelter
Theater company
New York, New York
November 26, 1990 -
Peppermint Motel
Theater company
New York, New York
February 8, 1990 -
Under The Sidewalk
Theater company
New York, New York
February 7, 1990 -
Guariken
Theater company
New York, New York
February 6, 1990 -
Graffiti
Theater company
New York, New York
February 5, 1990 -
Rivals
Theater company
New York, New York
February 4, 1990 -
Going to New England
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INTAR 53 Theatre
1990 -
But There Are Fires
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INTAR 53 Theatre
1990 -
Parting Gestures
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INTAR 53 Theatre
1990 -
It Is It Is Not
Theater company
New York, New York
February 9, 1989 - 1990 -
The Body Builder Book of Love
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1989 -
Shattering the Curve
Theater company
New York, New York
1989 -
Back to Back
Theater company
Unknown1
1989 -
Gleaning/Rebusca
Theater company
New York, New York
1989 -
Recourse
Theater company
New York, New York
1989 -
The Mango Orchard
Theater company
Unknown1
1989 -
Another dragon to the sky
Theater company
New York, New York
1989 -
Monosodium Glutamate
Theater company
Unknown1
1989 -
Tango Apasoinado
Theater company
Unknown1
1988 -
Our Lady of the Tortilla
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
June 3, 1987 - July 5, 1987 -
Box Plays
Theater company
The Public Theater
August 9, 1986 - August 10, 1986 -
Box Plays
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INTAR on Theatre Row
July 18, 1986 - July 20, 1986 -
Box Plays
Theater company
Theater for the New City
May 23, 1986 - May 24, 1986 -
Lovers and Keepers
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INTAR 53 Theatre
1986 -
In the Country of Azure Nights
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INTAR 53 Theatre
1986 -
La Paloma
Theater company
New York, New York
1986 -
Santiago
Theater company
New York, New York
1986 -
Tatters
Theater company
Unknown1
1986 -
Bebo and the Band
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1986 -
The Chronicle of Soleded
Theater company
Unknown1
1986 -
Ira Evans
Theater company
New York, New York
1986 -
La Chunga
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1986 -
Álbum
Theater company
Unknown1
1985 - 1987 -
Savings
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INTAR 53 Theatre
1985 -
Impact
Theater company
New York, New York
1985 -
Sarita
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INTAR 53 Theatre
1984 -
Dog Lady
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INTAR 53 Theatre
1984 -
Union City Thanksgiving
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INTAR 53 Theatre
March 9, 1983 - April 3, 1983 -
The Senorita From Tacna
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1983 -
The Last Latin Lover
Theater company
Unknown1
June 2, 1982 - June 27, 1982 -
The Extravagant Triumph of Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, and William Shakespeare
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
April 1, 1982 - April 25, 1982 -
Exiles
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INTAR 53 Theatre
1982 -
Bodybags
Theater company
New York, New York
1981 -
Swallows
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
March 6, 1980 - April 1980 -
Mundo
Theater company
Unknown1
1980 -
Hustlers With Worn-Out Shoes
Theater company
New York, New York
1980 -
A Little Holy Water
Theater company
New York, New York
1980 -
I Dare You to Resist Me
Theater company
New York, New York
1980 -
The Ash Can and the Cobra
Theater company
Unknown1
1980 -
In Another Part of the City
Theater company
New York, New York
1980 -
Initiation
Theater company
New York, New York
1980 -
Yerba Buena
Theater company
New York, New York
1980 -
Orphans
Theater company
Unknown1
1980 -
Bempires
Theater company
New York, New York
1980 -
Rice and Beans
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
October 4, 1979 - November 11, 1979 -
Blood Wedding
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1979 - 1980 -
Eyes on the Harem
Theater company
Theatre Row
1979 -
Latinos
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
June 2, 1978 -
Carmencita
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
May 19, 1978 - June 18, 1978 -
La gran decisión
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1978 -
Columbus, Columbus
Theater company
Theatre Row
1978 -
Nosotros hacemos esto... ¿y ustedes qué?
Theater company
Theatre Row
1978 -
The Singing Lion
Theater company
New York, New York
1978 -
The House of Bernarda Alba
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1977 -
Hablemos a calzón quitado
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1977 -
Lolita in the Garden
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1977 -
La dama boba
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
September 27, 1975 - November 16, 1975 -
Cap-a-Pie
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
May 1975 -
Greta Garbo de la calle 42
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1975 - 1976 -
Nuestro New York
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1975 - 1976 -
Exit the King
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
February 6, 1974 -
Fuenteovejuna
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
December 1, 1973 - December 29, 1973 -
La visita
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
April 27, 1973 - June 10, 1973 -
La zapatera prodigiosa
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1973 - 1974 -
The Zoo Story
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1973 - 1974 -
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
November 11, 1972 -
La estrella y la monja
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
May 6, 1972 - June 1972 -
La tiza mágica
Theater company
INTAR 53 Theatre
1971 -
The Body Builder's Book of Love
Theater company
Unknown1
20th century
Bibliography: +
Secondary: +
- Fallece Elsa Ortiz, pionera de nuestra escena
- Max Ferrá, a Trailblazer for Latino Theater, Dies at 79
- The Fantastical Reality In Pinkolandia
- Reconstrucción de la vida escénica hispánica en Nueva York: comienzos del siglo XXI
- Revolutionary Coming-of-Age In Wisconsin
- Pinkolandia
- Cuban Theater Digital Archive: A Learning and Preservation Resource for Theater History in the Cuban Diaspora
- An Economic Analysis of INTAR’s Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Lab (HPRL)
- The Playwright Rewriting Latino Theater
- Fallece en Nueva York l destacado teatrista cubano
- El teatro cubano en Estados Unidos
- Randy Barcelo, 48, A Stage Designer
- The Afro-Cuban Gift to American Pop Music
- International Arts Relations, Inc. A Retrospective
- Talking with Maria Irene Fornes
- Choice of 9 Plays on the Boards
- Going Out: Latin Theater
- Back to Pinterland, Where The Living Is Uneasy
- Theater: 'Dog Lady' and 'Swimmer'
- Union City as a Playwright's Microcosm
- Series of Staged Readings Will Open at Intar Nov. 5
- Going Out Guide: High Voltage
- 'Swallows' Depicts Families' Ties to Cuba: Bittersweet Homeland
- Hispanic Theater Discovers Strength in Ethnic Diversity
- Cap-a-Pie
- Stage: Bold, Surreal 'Visit' in Spanish
- A Theatrical Haven for Spanish Art
- Going Out Guide: Teatro
- Stage: Last Outcry of a Sequined Soul
Author: Lillian Manzor ()