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Article: Telling Stories in an Almost Tropical Mode: A Festival Celebrates the Jews' Outsized Role in Latin American Theatre
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- October 5, 2001
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Backalenick, Irene
Forward
10-05-2001
Telling Stories in an Almost Tropical Mode: A Festival Celebrates the Jews'
Outsized Role in Latin American Theatre
Robert Weber Federico has high hopes for the Festival of Jewish Latin
American Theatre, whose opening show runs from October 11 through November
4 at the Repertorio Espanol. The problem, he told the Forward, is not how
to fill his small East 27th Street theater, which is fast becoming a key
player in the off-Broadway scene, but how to fit everyone in. Mr. Federico
-- the associate director of the 33-year-old company and the one-man force
behind the new festival, which features performances in Yiddish and Spanish
in conjunction with New York's ...