by Christy Sandoval | Nov 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
As we all continue adapting our daily lives around the current pandemic, the health and safety of El Teatro Campesino’s staff, artists, and audiences are of the utmost importance to us. We also know that arts and cultura are integral in carrying us through these...
by admin | Aug 9, 2019 | upcoming events
It is with mixed emotions that we at El Teatro Campesino announce that the annual theatrical presentations of La Virgen del Tepeyac and La Pastorela at Old Mission San Juan Bautista have come to an abrupt end. After near a half century, the awesome and inspiring...
by admin | Apr 5, 2018 | News
Center Theatre Group on Wednesday will announce the 2018-19 seasons for the Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre, whose lineups will include work by Tracy Letts, Lynn Nottage, Luis Valdez and Lucas Hnath. Also among the shows set for the two venues by artistic...
by admin | Sep 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Teatro retrospective keeps the spirit alive in troubled political times BY ROSEANN HERNANDEZ – AUGUST 31, 2017 Prepare to move and be moved during El Teatro Campesino’s latest production “¡Viva La Causa!” “It is designed to be an immersive experience as the...
by admin | Sep 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
El Teatro Campesino takes its audience on a retrospective look in ‘¡Viva La Causa!’ BY JENNY ARBIZU – SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 If walls could talk, El Teatro Campesino’s would speak of the stories and the characters that existed within them. They may even speak of the...
by admin | Mar 1, 2017 | Zoot Suit
It’s sobering that Luis Valdez’s stirring Chicano protest musical is freshly relevant, but there’s nothing somber about its vibrant new staging. So it was Zoot Suit time again on Feb. 12, when a revival of this Luis Valdez play opened officially at the Mark Taper...
by admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Zoot Suit
LOS ANGELES — When “Zoot Suit” first opened at the Mark Taper Forum in 1978, little about the production screamed hit. Much of the cast had scant acting experience. The story itself was a Brechtian take on a relatively obscure unsolved murder in 1942 Los Angeles; its...
by admin | Nov 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dear Teatro Familia, It seems like old times, doesn’t it? The worst of times, the best of times, but hard times just the same for so many people. We are just grateful that after fifty years, El Teatro is still around to do what we do. I cannot help but remember the...
