Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Spanish-language works, with simultaneous English translation over headphones or with surtitles, are the specialty of Teatro de la Luna (http://www.teatrodelaluna.org), which performs its main-stage plays at Arlington's Gunston Arts Center.

The season begins with a Latin American Harp Festival (Sept. 14-15) at Rosslyn Spectrum and also includes children's shows, poetry marathons for young people in December and adults in April, and bilingual theater workshops.

For its 10th International Festival of Hispanic Theater Oct. 9-Nov. 17, Teatro de la Luna will bring in companies from Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina, Ecuador, Spain, Dominican Republic and Colombia.

"Frida Kahlo, the Passion" (Feb. 7-March 1, 2008), Ricardo Halac's play with music about the artist's life, premiered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1996.

In the screwball comedy "She Returned One Night" (May 8-31), by Eduardo Rovner, a gifted youth lives as a street vendor and performs with a tango quartet. His dead mother disapproves.

-- Jane Horwitz