Su Teatro’s El Espíritu Natural Tells Us “The Earth Is Good; We Need It to Survive”

As Tony Garcia, executive artistic director of Su Teatro, prepares to kick off the second half of the theater’s two-year celebration of its fiftieth anniversary with El Espíritu Natural, he reflects on the legacy of the institution.

Garcia is proud of the more than forty original works his company has produced since 1972, highlighting the Chicano community’s cultural heritage; plus, Su Teatro paid off its mortgage this year and now has a permanent home after starting out with guerrilla works on the street. To celebrate the theater’s history, the organization is revisiting plays from its archives.

“One of the things we’ve learned in the fifty years of this is that people find real value in revisiting older productions,” Garcia says. “We recently did a reading of Ludlow: El Grito de…