This course explores Latina/o theatre and performance from the 1950's to the late 1990's. We will cover a broad range of theatrical practices, from mainstream Broadway productions to grass roots community actos, from site-specific interventions in the US/Mexico border region to the use of vernacular aesthetic practices such as choteo, relajo and rascuachismo. One of the course's goals is to introduce some of the screenplays that have become canons within Chicana/o, Puerto Rican and Cuban theatre in the United States. The course also introduces the centrality of Latina feminist and queer thought to theater and performance. We will pay particular attention to the connections between social movements and popular culture, during an era that illustrates Latinas/os' articulation of ethnic and cultural self-identification.