The great poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was already one of Spain’s most popular writers when he was executed by right-wing militiamen in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil ...

Construction of soccer field, Alfacar, Spain, near site of park commemorating 1936 execution of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca by fascists during Spanish Civil War and mass graves of ...

Federico Garcia Lorca was born in Granada on June 5, 1898. His father was a prosperous farmer. Lorca wrote a series of powerful plays— Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Barnardo Alba and The ...

CASIDA OF THE LAMENT By Federico Garcia Lorca L.A. Times Archives July 15, 2001 12 AM PT I have shut my balcony because I do not want to hear the weeping, but from behind the grey walls ...

Co-host Madeleine Brand talks with Leslie Stainton, author of a new biography of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Lorca was killed in 1936 by a fascist firing squad. Lorca spent almost a year ...

Anyone wanting to brush up on Federico Garcia Lorca by seeing a rare staging of his 1934 play should avoid “Yerma,” which opened Tuesday at the Park Avenue Armory.

Rebecca Frecknall, whose “Cabaret” is heading to Broadway, steers Federico García Lorca’s play to its tragic finish with genuinely shocking force. By Matt Wolf Nov. 29, 2023 ...

One of Spain's greatest modern literary figures, the writer, poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, visited New York 60 years ago and in a collection of poems inspired by his nine-month stay in ...

Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang’s opera, inspired by the life of Federico García Lorca, arrived at the Met with a dizzying blend of styles. By Joshua Barone Osvaldo Golijov’s opera ...

The family of Federico García Lorca, the Spanish Civil War poet, said it would allow officials to dig up a common grave in which he is believed to be buried, Agence France-Presse reported.