Six years ago, Brian Quijada and Teatro Vista teamed up to present Quijada’s solo show, Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, an endearing and poignant portrait of growing up in the Chicago suburbs as the child of Salvadoran immigrants. The title of that show came from a question young Brian had for his third-grade […]
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In Amarillo, what doesn’t kill you kills you anyway
Teatro Línea de Sombra’s look at illegal immigration is a view from the south.
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16th Street Theater brings Into the Beautiful North beautifully to life
Karen Zacarías’s stage adaptation of the beloved novel by Chicago writer Luis Alberto Urrea is sly and sharp—and faithful in its fashion.
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Finding Thomas McGuane
Luis Alberto Urrea discovered a master in beat-up paperbacks.
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Columbia College Creative Nonfiction Week
Author appearances by Luis Alberto Urrea, Laurie Lindeen, John D’Agata, and others, free and open to the public, 10/19-10/23