El Palacio

by Jennifer Levin Art Olivas drove a friend to Santa Fe Community Theater and sat in the audience, watching the hopefuls take their turns. He wasn’t there to audition, but the director asked him to read anyway. This was in 1979, and though Olivas doesn’t remember what the play was, he ended up in it. “I’d never been on a stage. It could’ve been the melodrama—I was in it that year,” says the former photo archivist at New Mexico [...]