New Jersey's Two River Theater Announces 2015 Crossing Borders Festival

New Jersey's Two River Theater has announced the lineup for its fifth annual Crossing Borders Festival of new plays by Latino writers. For the first time since the festival launched in 2011, Crossing Borders will spotlight the work of Cuban and Cuban-American writers, bringing playwrights from on and off the island together in Red Bank for a five-day celebration of Cuban theater, food, and music.

Crossing Borders is curated by director Jerry Ruiz and Two River’s artistic staff and will run August 5-9. In addition to readings of four plays (including two plays that will be read in both English and Spanish), events will include an outdoor neighborhood party with Cuban food and live music, a lecture on Cuban theater, and conversations with artists.

The plays that will be read are Rogelio Martinez's Cocktail Time in Cuba (August 6 at 7:30pm); Agnieska Hernández Díaz's Anesthesia (August 7 at 7:30pm in English and Spanish); Abel González Melo's Chamacho (August 8 at 3pm for the English reading; 7:30pm for the Spanish-language reading); and Charise Castro Smith's The Hunchback of Seville (August 9 at 3pm).

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