Over the last 30 years or so, Su Teatro has also met a consistent, four-plays-per-season schedule while serving tens of thousands in a population largely ignored in arts programming — Colorado Latinos and Chicanos and Indigenous people
Anthony J. Garcia, who never seems to be at a loss for words, grew quiet when asked why his Su Teatro Cultural & Performing Arts Center is one of only three Latino theater companies in the U.S. to have survived for decades.
That stability, and that passion — connected directly to the Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and ’70s — helps explain why it’s gotten federal arts funding and toured its award-winning shows at venues ranging from New York’s Public Theater to stages in Los Angeles, San Antonio and elsewhere.
Denver artist Adolfo Romero paints a mural of Oscar Zeta Acosta, a Chicano lawyer, writer and activist, on the south-facing wall of Su Teatro Cultural & Performing Arts Center on April 04, 2018. “It was one of my first pieces and was performed by Angel Mendez-Soto, who’s still working with us,” Garcia said. “He’s reading these parts of this character decades later — much older than I was when I first did it — and I’m like, ‘Oh , I forgot we’ve produced like 40 original plays since then!’ ”
Nearly as exciting: the theater company this summer will finally pay off its building, having snapped it up for a relatively affordable $780,000 in 2010 after working out of smaller spaces. It sold its $500,000 building in the Elyria neighborhood, a former high school, to finance the Santa Fe location.
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