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Taper and Kirk Douglas 2018-19 seasons: ‘Sweat,’ Tracy Letts, Dianne Wiest and a Lucas Hnath premiere
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...
Light in Darkness: ¡Viva La Causa!
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 action...
A cause for action
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 lives...
Four Decades Later, ‘Zoot Suit’ Still Fits
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...
‘Zoot Suit,’ a Pioneering Chicano Play, Comes Full Circle
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...
A LETTER FROM LUIS VALDEZ TO OUR ESTEEMED DONORS AND SUPPORTERS OF EL TEATRO CAMPESINO, WHATEVER YOU CAN DONATE WILL BE DEEPLY APPRECIATED.
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...
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