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Latino Theater Company returns with La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, the company's signature holiday pageant that has been a Los Angeles holiday tradition since 2002.

Appropriation… or appreciation? Latino Theater Company has extended its world premiere, multilingual production of Tacos La Brooklyn.

A co-production with East West Players, Ulloa’s play makes the case for deeper investigation and against the kind of snap judgments that its hero, Chino, endures and fuels. Engagingly performed and containing plenty of cool visuals, Fidel Gomez’s production is a bit of a group hug. But it plays.

Appropriation… or appreciation? Latino Theater Company presents the world premiere of an exciting, multilingual comic drama developed in Latino Theater Company’s Circle of Imaginistas playwriting group and produced in association with East West Players. 

Burro Squad Productions, the film division of L.A.'s Latino Theater Company, has announced the premiere screening of Moe at the Chinese 6 Theatres on Saturday, June 3 at 5:30 p.m. as part of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.

The world premiere of ‘Whittier Boulevard,’ a funny and poignant commentary on ageism, opens the Latino Theater Company’s 2023 Spring Season this weekend, April 28 and 29. Take a look at the photos here!

L.A.’s Latino Theater Company returns to in-person performance with a vengeance in 2022, offering four world premieres and a West Coast premiere; the presentation of a guest company from Spain; and the 20th annual presentation of La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin Christmas pageant spectacular. Earlier this year, the company announced its new “IMPACT” community engagement initiative that sees the company partnering with the Los Angeles Community College District to provide students district-wide with a world-class education in dramatic arts and to bring students into the company’s home at The Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Latino Theater Company returns to in-person performance this December with La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, the company's signature holiday pageant that has been a Los Angeles holiday tradition since 2002.

Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce… but how many end in murder? The Latino Theater Company has turned its world premiere production of Premeditation, written by resident playwright Evelina Fernández, into a six-part audio theater podcast. The first two episodes will launch on Friday, Oct. 1, with the remaining four episodes scheduled for release weekly.

Following the success of Latino Theater Company’s national “Encuentro” theater festival in 2014 and international “Encuentro de las Americas” in 2017, the company is now accepting submissions for “Re-Encuentro 2021,” set to take place virtually Nov. 12 –Nov. 21. The deadline to submit is May 17, 2021 at 5 p.m. PT.

L.A.’s Latino Theater Company is extending free access to archival video of its signature holiday pageant, La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, through Dec. 31. La Virgen is the City of L.A.’s largest theatrical holiday production.

The multicamera, virtually produced reading of Luis Alfaro's “Mojada” premieres Friday, November 20 and “Electricidad” premieres Sunday, November 22, both at 5 p.m. Pacific. Along with “Oedipus El Rey,” these modern adaptations of Greek tragedies complete “The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro” which is presented on Center Theatre Group's Digital Stage in partnership with The Getty.

The premiere of the multicamera, virtually produced reading of Luis Alfaro's 'Electricidad,' has moved to November 22, 2020 at 5 p.m. Pacific. The modern adaptation of a Greek classic is part of the 'The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro' which is presented on Center Theatre Group's Digital Stage in partnership with The Getty.

Casting is announced for the multicamera, virtually produced reading of Luis Alfaro's 'Electricidad,' the first play in 'The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro' which is presented as part of the Live from the KDT series on Center Theatre Group's Digital Stage in partnership with The Getty.

The Latino Theater Company presents an archival video showing of Part 1 of Evelina Fernández's acclaimed trilogy. Travel with the Morales family through decades of the Mexican-American experience, beginning with a remote mining town in Arizona during World War II.

This is a Man's World - An archival video presentation of a solo, semi-autobiographical coming of age story written and performed by Latino Theater Company founding member Sal Lopez.

Tune in to The Last Angry Brown Hat - A 'sneak-peek' reading by the Latino Theater Company of Alfredo Ramos's play in which four former members of the Brown Berets, a 1960s militant Chicano civil rights organization, reunite after the funeral of a pal.

Tune in to La Olla - an archival video presentation of the Latino Theater Company's 2016 production. A bit player in a shady 1950s L.A. nightclub finds a pot full of cash in this adaptation, by Evelina Fernández, of the Roman comedy, The Pot of Gold by Plautus. I

Solitude - The Latino Theater Company presents an archival video showing of its 2009 production. Inspired by 'The Labyrinth of Solitude,' Solitude explores love, death, destiny and family through a contemporary lens, accompanied by live music from Semyon Kobialka.

The Latino Theater Company has announced a Fall 2020 Virtual Season. Over the next five months, the company will stream a combination of archival footage of past, fully-staged hit productions; live streamed, 'sneak-peek' readings of plays set for on-stage production in 2021 (or whenever theater is permitted to resume) and more.