{{Short description|American Hispanic theater company}} {{Infobox venue |name = INTAR Theatre |image = |image_size = |caption = |address = 500 W. 52nd Street, 4th Floor |city = New York, NY |country = United States |designation = |coordinates = {{coord|40.766006|-73.991325|type:landmark|display=inline}} |architect = |owner = |capacity = |type = |opened = 1966 |years_active = |rebuilt = |closed = |other_names = |production = |current_use = |website = {{URL|http://www.intartheatre.org/}} }}
'''INTAR Theatre''', founded in 1966, is one of the oldest Hispanic theater companies in the United States. The INTAR acronym is for International Arts Relations.<ref name="nyc-arts.org">{{cite web | url=https://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations/141/intar-international-arts-relations | title=INTAR International Arts Relations | access-date=2024-03-21}}</ref>
==History== INTAR Theatre was founded in New York in 1966 as Asociación de Arte Latinoamericano (ADAL) by a group of Cuban and Puerto Rican writers and artists. Cuban-born Max Ferrá served as INTAR's artistic director since its founding until 2004, when Cuban-American playwright Eduardo Machado assumed artistic leadership of the organization.<ref name=RAMP_1 />
In its early years, INTAR focused on producing in Spanish the works of significant European and American playwrights. In the 1970s, the organization began producing works in English by Ibero-American and Latino writers. The theater company has built on this strength and emphasizes in new works that reflect the cultural heritage and concerns of the Hispanic community in the United States. Works have included drama, musicals, children's theater, collaborative visual arts and theater creations, and traveling productions.<ref name=RAMP_1 />
In 1977 it was of first eight theaters that replaced adult entertainment venues on 42nd Street to form Theatre Row.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DSGu4H-N_WIC&dq=Lion+Theatre+West+42nd&pg=PA164 |title = Arts Money: Raising It, Saving It, and Earning It|isbn = 9781452901398|last1 = Jeffri|first1 = Joan| publisher=U of Minnesota Press }}</ref><ref name="nyc-arts.org"/>
INTAR has historically focused on four program areas. The theater program has resulted in over 125 theater productions by more than 175 playwrights and composers. The developmental theater program has hosted various writing labs and workshops designed to support the creation of new theater works by Hispanic artists. Almost every Latino playwright working today has participated in one of INTAR's workshops. Cuban-born, avant-garde playwright María Irene Fornés directed the Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Lab from 1981 to 1991. Graciela Daniele ran a Music Theater Lab from 1985 to 1989, and in 1991, INTAR hosted an Actors Lab.<ref name=RAMP_1 />
The New Works Lab was founded in 1994 under the direction of Michael Garces and is designed to support the creative development of emerging directors, writers, actors and other artists from the Latino theater community. Most recently, INTAR launched the Actor's Collective as part of its developmental theater program.<ref name=RAMP_1 />
Inverna Lockpez founded INTAR's Latin American Gallery in 1979, serving as curator through the 1990s. The Gallery was established as an alternative space to provide exposure for emerging and established Latino and Latin American artists, producing bilingual catalogs and posters for its exhibitions.<ref name=RAMP_1 />
INTAR also operated an educational program for public school students, including field days bringing students and teachers to INTAR for matinee performances and guided tours; an internship program; and in-school touring productions.<ref name=RAMP_1 />
Today, INTAR focuses on its theater and developmental theater programs.
==Works or publications== * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Minton, David | author2 = Perez, Gary | author3 = Monat, Phil | author4 = Ward, Penny | author5 = Trucco, Ed | author6 = Sherman, Loren | author7 = INTAR (Theatrical company : New York, N.Y.) | author8 = Cruz, Sergio | author9 = Rivera, Maritza | author10 = Brydon, Tobi | author11 = Ellman, Bruce | author12 = Santeiro, Luis | author13 = Bloom, Sandra M. | author14 = Incháustegui, Adriana | author15 = Zakowska, Donna, 1954- | author16 = Ferra, Max | author17 = Vidal, Marta | title = A Royal Affair | date = 1995 | oclc = 79468776 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Svich, Caridad | author2 = New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | author3 = Svich, Caridad | author4 = Theatre for the New City (New York, N.Y.) | author5 = INTAR (Theatrical company : New York, N.Y.) | author6 = Fornes, Maria Irene | title = Any Place but Here : a Play | date = 1993 | oclc = 49289803 | mode=cs1 }} <!-- Tommy hates his job as a bartender, but also loathes coming home. His wife Veronica is pregnant with another man's child, and can only confide in Lydia, her friend at the textile factory. Lydia's husband Chucky has lost his job, and is in no hurry to find a new one. In this savagely comic drama, set in an American landscape of economic desolation, the two troubled couples struggle to find meaning, hope, and connection, in a world bereft of all these things. -->
* {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Telson, Bob | author2 = INTAR (Theatrical company : New York, N.Y.) | author3 = Pinkins, Tonya | author4 = Pilar, Susan | author5 = Bishop, André | author6 = Santiago, Saundra | author7 = Mitchell, Gregory | author8 = James, Toni Leslie | author9 = Tirelli, Jaime | author10 = Landrieu, Nelson | author11 = Bavan, Yolande | author12 = Proia, Alexandre | author13 = LaChiusa, Michael John | author14 = Theatre Development Fund | author15 = Ceballos, René | author16 = Taylor, Myra Lucretia | author17 = Chapa, Marina | author18 = Lincoln Center Theater (New York, N.Y.) | author19 = AT & T Foundation | author20 = Filali, Marianne | author21 = New York Public Library, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive | author22 = Sandberg, Steve | author23 = Fisher, Jules | author24 = Daniele, Graciela | author25 = Faye, Denise | author26 = Barreca, Christopher | author27 = Weitzman, Ira | author28 = Green, Colton | author29 = Corwin, Betty L. | author30 = De la Pena, George | author31 = McSwain, Monica | author32 = DeSoto, Edouard | author33 = League of American Theatres and Producers | author34 = Rosario, Willie | author35 = Perez, Luis | author36 = Perez, Lazaro | author37 = Coll, Ivonne | author38 = Gersten, Bernard | author39 = Gallardo, Edgard | author40 = Meola, Tony | author41 = Hamlin, Jeff | author42 = Lewis, Jim | author43 = Stucker, Richard | author44 = Monge, Julio | author45 = García Márquez, Gabriel | author46 = Leguillou, Lisa | author47 = Williams, Eyan | author48 = Kerner, Norberto | author49 = Emmons, Beverly | title = Chronicle of a Death Foretold | date = 1995 | oclc = 79394337 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Valderrama, Elias | author2 = Alonso, Alberto | author3 = Eastman, Donald | author4 = Aronson, Frances | author5 = McCarthy, Elaine J. | author6 = Neman, Caryn | author7 = Ferra, Max | author8 = Calero, Sonia | author9 = Minton, David | author10 = Jansen, Richard | author11 = INTAR | author12 = Linares, Annia | author13 = Valcas Video | author14 = Oliva, Eduardo | author15 = Cruz, Sergio | author16 = Solis, Meme | title = Cuba Libre : a musical celebration | date = 1995 | oclc = 79394911 | mode=cs1 }} <!-- Plotless revue of dances and songs by Hispanic composers, including Gloria Estefan, Margarita Guerra, Carlos Alfonso, and others. -->
* {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Erde, Sara | author2 = Lloyd, Robert Langdon | author3 = Rodrigez, Al | author4 = Hester, Richard | author5 = Perez, Michael | author6 = Aronson, Frances | author7 = Liben, Laura | author8 = Faber, Ron | author9 = Williams, Jill | author10 = Ferrá, Max | author11 = Corwin, Betty L. | author12 = Taylor, Mark | author13 = Perloff, Carey | author14 = Nye, Hope | author15 = Becker, Royce M. | author16 = Berry, Gabriel | author17 = Gettinger, Don | author18 = Stehlin, Jack | author19 = Jayce, Michael | author20 = Williams, Sarah | author21 = DiPaola, James | author22 = Mickelbury, Denise B. | author23 = Mead, Winter | author24 = INTAR | author25 = Nordling, Jeffrey | author26 = Molina, Tirso de | author27 = Mitterhoff, Barry | author28 = Eastman, Donald | author29 = Character Generators/Video | author30 = Yancey, Kim | author31 = New York Public Library, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive | author32 = Swados, Elizabeth | author33 = Alvarez, Lynne | author34 = Novack, Ellen | author35 = Freund, Tom | author36 = Perloff, Carey | author37 = Classic Stage Company | author38 = Kerner, Norberto | author39 = Taylor, Johh Wendes | title = Don Juan of Seville | date = 1989 | oclc = 212381945 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Diament, Mario | author2 = INTAR | author3 = Grossman, Lisa | author4 = Hopper, Ray | author5 = Cellario, Maria | author6 = Verbil, Michael | author7 = Yakim, Moni | author8 = Anthony, Fran | author9 = Granite, Judith | author10 = Rivera, Lindanell | author11 = Velez, Ricardo | author12 = Vidal, Lisa | author13 = Fredericks, K. L. | author14 = Coleman, Don | title = Equinox | date = 1984 | oclc = 54457578 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Colón, Oscar A. | author2 = Ferra, Max | author3 = Cruz, Sérgio | author4 = Rada, Mirena | author5 = Cellario, Maria | author6 = Santvoord, Van | author7 = Klainer-McDonnell, Traci | author8 = Doty, Johnna | author9 = Cruz, Miriam | author10 = DiFarnecio, Doris | author11 = Minton, David | author12 = INTAR | author13 = Garcés, Michael John | title = Forever in My Heart | date = 1996 | oclc = 57033869 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Minton, David | author2 = Santvoord, Van | author3 = INTAR | author4 = DiFarnecio, Doris | author5 = Machado, Eduardo | author6 = Inchaustegui, Adriana | author7 = Garcés, Michael John | author8 = Cruz, Miriam | author9 = David, Angel | author10 = Quintero, Joe | author11 = Klainer-McDonnell, Traci | author12 = Argo, Victor | author13 = Ferra, Max | author14 = Doty, Johnna | author15 = Camacho, Blanca | author16 = Ubarry, Hechter | author17 = Durling, Roger Arturo | author18 = Cruz, Sérgio | author19 = Rada, Mirena | title = In the Land of Giants | date = 1996 | oclc = 57033849 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Ubarry, Hechter | author2 = Ferra, Max | author3 = Cruz, Sérgio | author4 = González, Rubén | author5 = Rada, Mirena | author6 = Quintero, Joe | author7 = Santvoord, Van | author8 = Klainer-McDonnell, Traci | author9 = Guzmán, Henry | author10 = David, Angel | author11 = Camacho, Blanca | author12 = Inchaústegui, Adriana | author13 = Argo, Victor | author14 = Doty, Johnna | author15 = Minton, David | author16 = INTAR | author17 = Cellario, Maria | author18 = Garcés, Michael John | author19 = Nunes-Ueno, Paulo | title = Inkarrí's Return | date = 1996 | oclc = 57033814 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Marrero, Ralph | author2 = Garrity, Paul | author3 = Pottlitzer, Joanne | author4 = Rivas, Fernando | author5 = Morin, Ricardo | author6 = Douglas, Pepe | author7 = Vargas Llosa, Mario | author8 = DiPaola, James | author9 = INTAR | author10 = Dabney, Sheila | author11 = Emmons, Beverly | author12 = Ferguson-Acosta, Dennis | author13 = Aranas, Raul | author14 = Navarro Velasquez, David | author15 = Ferra, Max | author16 = Lewis, Jim | author17 = Rivera, Maritza | author18 = Ferra, Max | author19 = Elliott, Shawn | title = La Chunga | date = 1986 | oclc = 298253587 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = DiFarnecio, Doris | author2 = Williams, Robert | author3 = Baker, Allan J. | author4 = Ferra, Max | author5 = Corwin, Betty L. | author6 = Doti, Johnna | author7 = Puig, Manuel | author8 = Morin, Ricardo | author9 = Ford Foundation | author10 = Cruz, Sérgio | author11 = Character Generators/Video | author12 = Rambal, Virginia | author13 = INTAR | author14 = Zisholtz-Herzog, Ellen | author15 = Santvoord, Van | author16 = New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Collection. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive | title = Mystery of the Rose Bouquet | date = 1998 | oclc = 56089591 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Clay, Paul | author2 = INTAR | author3 = Calder, Jim | author4 = Calder, Jim | author5 = Ferra, Max | author6 = Teirstein, Andy | author7 = Izzo, Janet | author8 = Character Generators/Video | author9 = Aguilar, Sigfrido | title = Sancho & Don | date = 1994 | oclc = 79450706 | mode=cs1 }} <!-- Original play featuring characters loosely based on Cervantes' Sancho Panza and Don Quixote. --> * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Fornes, Maria Irene | author2 = Berry, Gabriel | author3 = Eastman, Donald | author4 = Camacho, Blanca | author5 = Odenz, Leon | author6 = Corwin, Betty L. | author7 = New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Collection. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive | author8 = Dabney, Sheila | author9 = Carmine, Michael | author10 = Militello, Ann | author11 = Mennone, Kate | author12 = Díaz, Rodolfo | author13 = Rosario, Carmen | author14 = Kirk, Tom | author15 = INTAR | title = Sarita | date = 1984 | oclc = 56385327 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Craig, Lawrence | author2 = Miles, Julia | author3 = Kim, Willa | author4 = Fornes, Maria Irene | author5 = Women's Project | author6 = Sierra, Roberto | author7 = Rodgers-O'Connor, Candace | author8 = INTAR | author9 = Muriello, John | author10 = Fucchin, Sylvio | author11 = Fox, Patricia | author12 = Widmer, Philip | author13 = Santvoord, Van | author14 = Ferra, Max | author15 = Alagna, Jennifer | author16 = Perri, Matthew | author17 = Gosling, Stephen | title = Terra Incognita a New Opera for the Theatre | date = 1997 | oclc = 53968307 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Rivera, Manuel | author2 = Mirabal, Jeannette | author3 = Sanchez-Scott, Milcha | author4 = INTAR | author5 = Lecube, Graciela | author6 = Tuncboyaci, Arto | author7 = Barrajanos, Daniel | author8 = Garcia, Pilar | author9 = Pena, Elizabeth | author10 = Lee, Ming Cho | author11 = Singer, Connie | author12 = Garrity, Paul | author13 = Hurst, Lillian | author14 = Ferra, Max | author15 = Militello, Anne E. | author16 = Carrasco, Carlos | author17 = Cestero, Carlos | author18 = Hobson, Anne Marie | title = The Cuban Swimmer | date = 1984 | oclc = 78968764 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Burns, Gail A. | author2 = Castellanos, Doris | author3 = Faber, Ron | author4 = Kopache, Thomas | author5 = El-Kadi, Naseer | author6 = Rose, Brian | author7 = Arrabal, Fernando | author8 = Thacker, Cheryl | author9 = INTAR | author10 = Flores, Cecilia | author11 = Ferra, Max | author12 = Barcelo, Randy | author13 = Le Roux, Madeleine | author14 = Falquez-Certain, Miguel | author15 = Manet, Eduardo | author16 = Ferguson, Dennis | title = The Extravagant Triumph of Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, and William Shakespeare | date = 1982 | oclc = 77741304 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Sherman, Loren | author2 = Stevens, Susan | author3 = INTAR | author4 = Kopache, Thomas | author5 = Garrity, Paul | author6 = Vargas Llosa, Mario | author7 = Kahn, Michael | author8 = Sánchez, Jaime | author9 = Tucci, Maria | author10 = Del Pozo, Emilio | author11 = Shaw, Deborah | author12 = Ferrer, Anthony | author13 = Pottlitzer, Joanne | author14 = Merediz, Olga | author15 = Budin, Rachael | author16 = Pla, Ruben | author17 = Klein, Yekutiel | author18 = Rizik, Raoul | author19 = Sanjuan, Cristina | title = The Senorita from Tacna | date = 1983 | oclc = 50106978 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Collection. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive | author2 = Ford Foundation | author3 = Miller, Patricia | author4 = Ward, Penny | author5 = Orizondo, Carlos | author6 = Santvoord, Van | author7 = Aderman, Shelli | author8 = Dewell, Michael | author9 = INTAR | author10 = Lee, Ralph | author11 = Zapata, Carmen | author12 = Doty, Johnna | author13 = Cruz, Miriam | author14 = Roth, Katherine | author15 = Corwin, Betty L. | author16 = DiFarnecio, Doris | author17 = Rafart, Carlos | author18 = García Lorca, Federico | author19 = Casano, Denise | author20 = Ferrá, Max | author21 = Williams, Robert | author22 = Torres, Bill | author23 = De la Fe Colon, Oscar | title = The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife | date = 1998 | oclc = 51636461 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Museo del Barrio | author2 = Ballet Hispanico of New York | author3 = INTAR | title = Three Women Three Islands : Sophie Rivera, Manhattan, Lilia Fontana, Cuba, Freida Medín Ojeda, Puerto Rico | publisher = El Museo del Barrio | location = New York, N.Y. | date = 1983 | oclc = 74666333 | mode=cs1 }} * {{Citation |display-authors=0 | author1 = Rivera, Marcelino | author2 = Matthews, Karen | author3 = Budin, Rachel | author4 = Martin, Manuel Jr | author5 = Podiak, Thomas J. | author6 = Aviles, Marge | author7 = Del Pozo, Emilio | author8 = Suarez, Regina | author9 = Serrano, Nestor | author10 = INTAR | author11 = More, Caren | author12 = Ernotte, Andre | author13 = Osorio, Diva | author14 = Sharp, Michael | author15 = Cruz, Miriam | title = Union City Thanksgiving : a Comedy-drama | date = 1983 | oclc = 83446163 | mode=cs1 }}
== See also == * Latino theatre in the United States * Latino literature * Puerto Rican literature * Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
==Notes and references== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=RAMP_1>{{Cite open archival metadata | authors = Duvy Argandoña and Ximena Valdivia | title = Guide to the INTAR Theatre records | url = http://proust.library.miami.edu/findingaids/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=126 | date = | location = Miami, FL | repository = University of Miami Libraries | accessdate = March 31, 2014 }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== * {{Citation | author = De la Roche, Elisa | title = Teatro Hispano! : Three Major New York Companies | publisher = Garland | location = New York | date = 1995 | oclc = 32431935 | isbn = 9780815319863 | mode = cs1 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/teatrohispanothr0000dela }}
==External links== * The [http://proust.library.miami.edu/findingaids/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=126 INTAR Theatre records] are available at the [http://library.miami.edu/chc/ Cuban Heritage Collection], [http://library.miami.edu/ University of Miami Libraries]. INTAR Theatre Records include the organizational records of New York-based INTAR Theatre, one of the oldest Hispanic theater companies in the United States. The collection contains scripts, musical scores, correspondence, financial records, photographs, audiovisual materials, posters, programs, clippings, and other materials related to INTAR Theatre productions from its founding in 1966 to 2004. The collection also includes the records of INTAR's Latin American Gallery. * Venue page for [http://ctda.library.miami.edu/creator/4783 INTAR] in the [http://ctda.library.miami.edu/ Cuban Theater Digital Archive]
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