Next month, the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance will present the fifth annual Destinos Chicago International Theater Festival. But it will be bittersweet; the woman most responsible for making the festival a reality, CLATA cofounder and executive director Myrna Salazar, won’t be there to see it. Salazar died on Wednesday, August 3, two weeks after celebrating […]
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Pipeline examines the opposite of white privilege
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Familiar finds the pulsing, beating heart of a Zimbabwean-American family in Minnesota
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Live from La Havana Madrid
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How Chicago theater artists are diversifying the city’s stages
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The where and why of the Hairy Who
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The more The Gospel of Lovingkindness preaches, the less it reaches
Victory Gardens’ The Gospel of Lovingkindness hits close to home, but preaches too much.
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Head of Passes: Bless this mess
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Head of Passes was one of the best and worst plays of 2013.
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The making of the city on the make
Lookingglass Theatre’s The Great Fire revisits the catastrophe that destroyed and created Chicago