CRUZANDO CAMINOS GRUPO TEATRAL
Jenny Hernández, Dina Barrionuevo, Magaly Novoa, Liliana Olivares, and Feli Blasco in Las mujeres de verdad tienen curvas.
January 2024, Cruzando Caminos presents Ana en el trópico by Nilo Cruz!
The year is 1929. The place, a tobacco factory in Tampa, Florida. The moving story of the cigar factory workers whose lives are drastically changed with the arrival of a reader (lector) from Cuba who reads them the classic novel of Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. This play is performed in Spanish.
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WHO WE ARE
Welcome
To Our Theater
Group
Cruzando Caminos theater group was formed in 2016-- and officially named in 2019—for the purpose of presenting theater in Spanish to the diverse Hispanic communities of New Jersey, and beyond. Director and founder Linda Gould Levine holds a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from Harvard University and is Professor Emerita of Spanish at Montclair State University, NJ. Cast members are from Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador, and Peru and include Dina Barrionuevo, Feli Blasco, Germán Cardona, Beatriz Delgado-Ochoa, Susana Fernández-Poyatos, Óscar García, Aurora Hermo, Jenny Hernández, María Kapadia, Yeri López, Magaly Novoa, Liliana Olivares, Elizabeth Pérez-Diner, and Luis Guillermo Zea. Our cast is passionate about theater and our mission. It has been our pleasure to present plays since 2017.
We have presented four plays to date: two live performances (an adaptation of García Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda Alba, and Josefina López’s Las mujeres de verdad tienen curvas) and two by zoom (Nilo Cruz’s Ana en el trópíco) and García Lorca’s Yerma). La casa de Bernarda Alba was presented at Montclair State University as well as high schools in New Jersey during 2017-2018, and by Youtube at Bergen Community College during 2020. Las mujeres de verdad tienen curvas was presented at the Maria Ciccone Theater at Bergen Community College with the presence of the author Josefina López (October 18, 2019), as well as at Luna Stage in West Orange, and Montclair State University in 2019-2020. The West Orange Public Library sponsored during 2020 -2021 zoom productions of Ana en el trópico and Yerma.
Cruzando Caminos has been featured on radio and television, including “Un nuevo día” (Telemundo) and “Noticias” (Univisión). Other coverage includes interviews with Amelia Días of Latinos, Cámara, Acción as well as radio programs in Colombia and Argentina.
Linda Gould Levine, director of Cruzando Caminos, with Luis Guillermo Zea, the actor who played the role of Lorca in La casa de Bernarda Alba.
Repertoire of Cruzando Caminos
September 22 and 30, 2017
La casa de Bernarda Alba, Montclair performances
April 28, 2018
La casa de Bernarda Alba, Summit HS
October 18, 2019
Las mujeres de verdad tienen curvas, Bergen Community College
Cast and director, Montclair State University, January 10, 2020
Premiere of Las mujeres de verdad tienen curvas, Bergen CC, October 18, 2019
Josefina López with director and cast of Las mujeres de verdad tienen curvas
January 10, 2020
Las mujeres de verdad tienen curvas, Montclair State University
October 25, 2020
Ana en el trópico, presented by Zoom by the West Orange Public Library
July 15, 2021
Yerma, presented by Zoom by the West Orange Public Library