Hispanic Theatre in the United States: Post-War to the Present

Abstract

The postwar period in the Southwest has seen the gradual restoration of the amateur, semiprofessional and professional stages in the Hispanic communities of the Southwest. From the 1950's on, repertory theatres have appeared throughout the Southwest to produce Latin American, Spanish and American plays in Spanish translations. In San Antonio the extraordinary efforts of such actors as Lalo Astol, La Chata Noloesca and her daughter Velia Camargo were responsible for keeping plays and vaudeville routines alive in the communities, even if they had to be presented for free or at fundraisers. Actors like Lalo Astol made the transition to radio and television, usually as announcers, at times as writers and producers. Astol even wrote, directed and acted in locally produced television drama during the 1950's and 1960's. In Los Angeles, veteran actor-director Rafael Trujillo-Herrera maintained a theatre group almost continuously during the war and through the 1960's, made up of his drama students and professionals who quite often performed at a small theatre house that he bought, El Teatro Intimo.

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