As a year filled with many losses in Chicago’s theater community wound down, word came in late December that Gustavo Mellado, a founding ensemble member of Teatro Vista, had died at age 69. A December 29 tribute on the company’s Facebook page noted that Mellado was “a wonderful actor with a beautiful singing voice,” and […]
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Will Silk Road still rise? Will we?
Jamil Khoury and Malik Gillani have been facing more than COVID closure.
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Asian-American theater artists convene for six days of ConFest
This year’s theme is “Revolutionary Acts.”
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Silk Road Rising’s New China Festival introduces American audiences to Chinese playwrights
“It’s interesting to be able to work on stuff that is clearly not rooted in an American perspective.”
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Novid Parsi’s Through the Elevated Line is a slavish update of a masterpiece
But A Streetcar Named Desire deserves better.
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How Silk Road Rising teaches empathy through playwriting
The local theater company introduces a new kind of arts education.
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Silk Road Rising’s Mosque Alert is alarmingly relevant
After five years of development, Jamil Khoury’s play about xenophobia opens in an ever-more-xenophobic political moment.
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The year onstage: Five debuts, four imports, three revivals—and two feuds
The Building Stage said good-bye, Jamil Khoury said a lot, and other notable moments from the year in theater.
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Hedy’s review was a rave—why is everybody so upset?
If you read it closely, the Sun-Times critic’s review of Invasion! was a rave.
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“That felt wrong”: Mary Zimmerman on The Jungle Book
The director on why she cast André De Shields as King Louie in The Jungle Book, and how she felt about a recent flap over her use of Silk Road stories.
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The Jungle Book sets off another rumble
Silk Road theater’s Jamil Khoury took aim at Mary Zimmerman and The Jungle Book only to be disarmed.
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The Jungle Book wars, onstage
Mary Zimmerman’s best answer to her critics is a flawed, defiant Jungle Book.
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Silk Road Rising’s “Mosque Alert” enlists the global community
Silk Road Rising’s play in progress, “Mosque Alert,” crowdsources controversy.
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