August 29 at The Los Angeles Theatre Center

Stage Raw - Recommended

"...The show created by the Latino Theater Company was first produced in 1990. Thirty-five years later, its message on resistance and identity is just as strong. August 29 follows Traviño as she struggles to complete her book about Salazar as part of her tenure. Salazar, a Los Angeles Times columnist who was the first Mexican journalist to cover the Chicano community at a legacy media outlet, was killed during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War. Traviño is fixated on this day; she is trying to understand the events behind his tragic death and where his cultural pride derives from. To understand her subject, she must look within and explore how her Chicano identity has made her an activist and historian."