Hispanic Theater of the United States Spanish-speaking people maintain a sense of identity and community through theater, a tradition that began in the sixteenth century with Spanish missionaries. Modern Chicano theater looks back to two progenitors from the 1960s and 1970s, the Teatro Campesino, founded by Luis Valdez, and Teatro de la Esperanza, founded by Jorge Huerta.
Theater also flourishes in Nuyorican and Cuban-American communities on the East coast.
Five Plays from New York , ed.