{"id":30137,"date":"2012-06-14T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30137"},"modified":"2012-06-14T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:24:28","slug":"josefina-lopezs-newest-offering-trio-los-machos-hits-the-stage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/06\/14\/josefina-lopezs-newest-offering-trio-los-machos-hits-the-stage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Josefina Lopez&#8217;s Newest Offering, Trio Los Machos, Hits the Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/josefina_lopez_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Trio Los Machos made its world premiere in Los Angeles this month during the 10th anniversary year of Josefina Lopez\u2019 groundbreaking film based on her play, Real Women Have Curves, that both entertained and educated mainstream audiences in 2002 about the complex identities of Latina women in the US. A decade later, Trio Los Machos is Lopez\u2019s homage to her father, honoring Latino men. It\u2019s being called a comedic Latino \u201cbromance,\u201d telling the story of three Mexican laborers living in East LA after coming to the country under the Bracero Program, which began during the World War II labor shortage and ended in 1964. The central characters, Lalo, Nacho and Paco, form a friendship spanning 50 years and a guitar trio, a tribute to the real life musicians that comprised the famous Trio Los Panchos. <\/p>\n<p>On June 14th, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Josefina Lopez about her newest play. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gxFFXPUUAeU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trio Los Machos will perform on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 5:00 p.m., June 8 \u2013 July 8, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Casa 0101 Theater is located at 2102 E. First Street (at Louis Street), Boyle Heights, CA 90033. <\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casa0101.org\">www.casa0101.org<\/a> for tickets and more information. <\/p>\n<p>A Free Art Exhibit in The Jean Deleage Gallery at Casa 0101 Theater entitled, \u201cRecollections From Yesterday and Today of Ex-Braceros,\u201d will be running in conjunction with the run of the play.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Josefina Lopez&#8217;s latest film project and how you can support it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/DetainedintheDesert\">http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/DetainedintheDesert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trio Los Machos made its world premiere in Los Angeles this month during the 10th anniversary year of Josefina Lopez\u2019 groundbreaking film based on her play, Real Women Have Curves, that both entertained and educated mainstream audiences in 2002 about the complex identities of Latina women in the US. A decade later, Trio Los Machos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}