Zoot Suit is a play by written by Luis Valdez, featuring incidental music by Daniel Valdez and Lalo Guerrero, the "father of Chicano music." Zoot Suit follows the real-life events of the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial – when a group of young Mexican-Americans were wrongfully charged with murder – and the Zoot Suit Riots.

When it debuted in 1979, Zoot Suit became the first Chicano play on Broadway. In 1981, Luis Valdez also directed a filmed version of the play.

Story

Henry Reyna (inspired by real-life defendant Henry Leyvas) is a pachuco gangster. His gang, who were unfairly prosecuted, are thrown in jail for a murder they did not commit. The play is set in the barrios of Los Angeles, California in the early 1940s against the backdrop of the Zoot Suit Riots and World War II.