The Village Voice has an interesting interview with Nigel Redden, the director of Lincoln Center Festival. Although Tom Sellar exclusively calls the festival “New York’s annual booster shot of world performance”, ignoring BAM’s now 20-sum year committment to doing just that every autumn, it’s still pretty interesting to get a window into the philosophy of such a festival.

But read the last paragraph, when Sellar asks Redden if there’s any of the productions at this year’s festival that would have particular resonance with NY audiences. And just when it looks optimistic, and Redden mentions Gemelos by Chilean troupe Compañia Teatro Cinema (reviewed here) and the upcoming Divinas Palabras (previewed here), he fails to mention that those works are being performed in Spanish and that this just might happen to serve 1/3 of NY’s population that just so happens to speak Spanish.

Just sayin’…