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This article examines theatrical experimentation in three plays by U.S. Latina playwrights: Quiara Alegría Hudes' Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (2007), Caridad Svich's Tropic of X (2009) and Cusi Cram's Fuente (2009). Each playwright engages with an existing artistic form, fugue, hip hop and soap opera, as a means to develop the structure, characters and language of her play. The article argues that these playwrights' innovations, created by exploring and subverting diverse artistic models, reflect the dynamics of transculturation and that the resulting plays are not only commercially viable but vital to twenty-first century U.S. theater.

Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance establishes Brian Eugenio Herrera as a leading scholar of Latina/o performance. His meticulously researched book makes visible the vast contributions of Latina/o performers in theatre, film, and television over the past century.

En El amarillo sol de tus cabellos largos, Carla Zuñiga crea personajes travestis marginalizados, explotados, disfrazados, que reclaman justicia contra la desigualdad de género. Zuñiga escribe su obra durante la era posdictadura y pone en escena a una madre travesti que llora la pérdida de la custodia de su hijo y pelea para recuperarlo con la ayuda de su comunidad. Zuñiga conforma personajes que se confrontan con el trauma, la discriminación de género y la violencia, construyendo al mismo tiempo caminos que buscan alcanzar la justicia transicional. En definitiva, esta dramaturga ofrece una contribución importante para examinar la normalización de la violencia de género en la sociedad sudamericana democrática, posdictadura, contemporánea.

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