Since its inception, El Teatro Campesino and its founder and artistic director, Luis Valdez, have set the standard for Latino theatrical production in the United States. Founded in 1965 on the Delano ...

In San Juan Bautista, a town 37 miles northeast of Monterey, chickens still roam downtown streets, and the air is thick with the scents of cabbage and berry crops this time of year. The San Benito ...

More than 100 vintage video recordings of the world- renowned Latino theater company El Teatro Campesino are now available online courtesy of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) at ...

The struggles of everyday people have been the focus of California's El Teatro Campesino for nearly half a century. The theater company was born on the picket lines of the United Farmworkers Movement ...

Fifty years ago this year, Luis Valdez founded the theater company known as El Teatro Campesino on the picket lines of Cesar Chavez’s United Farmworkers Union. Valdez’s son, Kinan, is now the ...

El Teatro Campesino (Theater of Fieldworkers), based in San Juan Bautista, celebrated its 50th anniversary at Hartnell College’s Western Stage with “Corridos! Tales of Passion and Revolution” by El ...

As a child, Luis Valdez started asking "who am I?" long before most kids learn to add numbers. The acclaimed playwright says he has vivid childhood memories of when his parents took over a ranch in ...

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How many shows has El Teatro Campesino written? El Teatro Campesino has written 1 shows including La Carpa de los Rasquachis (The Tent of the Underdogs) (Creator). What awards has El Teatro Campesino ...

The California theater company was born on the picket lines of the United Farm Workers Movement; its mission is to dramatize the struggles of everyday people and bring the stories to a wider audience.