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Centro Austuriano
El Centro Austuriano is in Ybor City, Tampa Florida. It catered to spanish immigrants and featured plays that were Latin American and Spanish. This social club worked as a foundation for Latin Americans. A membership to this club included things such as health insurance, it served as a hospital, and even a cemetery. The building now serves as a recreational building used by the community to either rent out, use for other clubs, educational rooms, and there's even a stage (Isabella). -
Teatro Zaragosa
Teatro Zaragosa opens up in San Antonio, Texas and stages plays that are dramas, comedies, etc. The plays feature spanish actors such as Juan B. Padilla, Concepcion Guerrero, and others. This theater gives a very exquisite feeling for everyone who goes in. The architecture, paintings, and the stage are all quite interesting pieces of work. Most of the décor on the outside is thanks to Francisco Rallo Lahoz, a spanish sculptor (Lucchese) -
Teatro Nacional
The Teatro Nacional is built and established. It is Antonio's main venue for spanish stage productions. Around the 1990s, San Antonio, Texas has the largest amount of Mexican population in all of the United States. Thus leading into the rise of Latino films, radio, and plays ("National Theater"). -
Romualdo Tirado
Spanish decent, Romualdo Tirado directs, writes, and produces the movie "De Mexico a Los Angeles". Which the story is a reflection of his own life. He wrote other screenplays and acted in other movies. Romualdo would rent movie theaters to present his works, including the theaters El Capitol and Teatro Mexico. At these shows, he would produce plays, opera, and zarzuela ("Romualdo Tirado"). -
Teatro Capital
This theatre is constructed in Los Angeles and becomes another venue that is held for stage productions in spanish (Tenopia). -
Federal Theater Project
The Roosevelt Administration creates the FTP in attempt to neutralize the Great Depression. The major outreach of the FTP is the Latino community in which they collaborate with the Centro Austriano of Tampa (Tenopia). -
El Nuevo Circulo Dramatico
Director Roberto Rodriguez and actress Miriam Colon (founded Puerto Rican Traveling Theater) both came together and created El Nuevo Circulo Dramatico. Both the production and Miriam's future foundation, Puerto Rican Travelling Theater, are featured in New York (Gussow). -
Cuban Revolution
After the Cuban Revolution, there were many exiled Cubans who came to settle in Miami, Florida. Typically they were from backgrounds such as higher or middle class. Because of this, the immigrants created their own theatre companies. In these theaters, their works were primarily Latin American and played memories of the era before Fidel Castro (Tenopia). -
Chicano Movement
The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, likewise called the Chicano Civil Rights or El Movimiento, was a social equality development broadening the Mexican-American Civil Rights with the objective of accomplishing Mexican American Empowerment. It was not uncommon, before the Chicano movement, to see racial discriminations against Mexican-Americans ("Arcgis"). -
New York Shakespeare Festival
Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival begins to integrate spanish versions of the plays in order to include everyone. Joseph Papp also co-produced "The Festival Latino" which brought together several different Latinx companies. This event would last over a month and would have more than 200 scheduled events (Roessel). -
Off Broadway Play by Rene Marquez
The Puerto Rican Travelling Theater had been touring all parts of New York. The crew settled down in their first indoor home and it happened to be in the location of Broadway. The theater started prodcution of Rene Marquez's play "The Oxcart", and was the first production by the Travelling Theater. This play was about a Puerto Rican immigrant's experience in moving from the slums and into New York City, facing discrimination, poverty, and many other issues ("The Oxcart"). -
INTAR
The longest running Latino theater to this day is INTAR. INTAR stands for International Arts Relations and has been producing productions since 1966. It is said that the organization is "theater arts without borders." They have produced works by almost 200 Latino writers, composers, and choreographers ("Mission").