Stay current and in the know with these news articles chronicling Silk Road Rising's contributions to American theatre.
The "Mosque Alert" project is an ambitious undertaking, a nine-step process built around "civic engagement" and intended to culminate in a full-length play and a film.
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Silk Road Rising Artistic Director wants to talk about a lot of issues with a lot of people, more than can fit inside a theater. So, he's decided to do something unprecedented. In a medium in which the writer is often seen as God, an unquestionable font of dramatic genius, Jamil Khoury is crowdsourcing his play on the Internet.
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WATCH: The Armenian Genocide and Night Over Erzinga . A Video Essay Written & Delivered by Artistic Director Jamil Khoury.
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WATCH: Playwright Jamil Khoury discusses the ideas and inspirations surrounding his video play "both/and" and responds to his critics.
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Southlander in Silk Road Rising’s ‘Doctor is Indian’
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Dean Richards of WGN interviews Silk Road Rising Artistic Director Jamil Khoury to discuss our online civic engagement project, "Mosque Alert."
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WATCH: In Jamil Khoury's video essay "On Whiteness," Khoury explores the meanings and ramifications of whiteness, its promises and pitfalls, beneficiaries and victims, and his own complicated relationship to whiteness (existing somewhere between white and not quite white).
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"Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret" isn’t your mother’s cabaret. It’s bold, colorful, eclectic, relevant and shockingly subversive. I’ve seen a lot of cabaret in my time, but nothing quite like the experience I had last night.
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This production is sharp, touching, and fun. It’s Ice Cube, Joan Baez, and Rodgers and Hammerstein. It’s cabaret with a conscience. It demands an audience as eclectic as its tightknit ensemble and vivid message.
more »Today, Chicago Theatre Off Book is reviewing exciting offerings from local theatre companies. Jamil Khoury, Founding Artistic Director at Silk Road Rising and creator of“Re-Spiced”
more »Theater is moving online. Sure, poorly and often surreptitiously filmed stage productions already get uploaded to YouTube, but a pair of Chicago ensembles are taking a new, digital-first approach. Silk Road Rising and a collaboration between Octavarius and CNGM Pictures, have decided to create their theater on the web so that their work can be accessed by people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to see it.
more »Cultural exchange highlights a partnership developed between Valparaiso University and Chicago-based theatre company Silk Road Rising
more »Jamil Khoury and his partner Malik Gillani founded Silk Road Theatre Project in the wake of 9/11 to focus on Middle Eastern and Asian (“Silk Road”) themes as the hostility toward many of the peoples in and from those regions reached a fever pitch here in the States.
more »There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we’re not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters.
more »Go see Yellow Face, but be warned: A half-hour after thinking about it, you'll want to think about it again.
more »Henry David Hwang's cutting, rollicking comedy about the meaning of "Asian" makes its Chicago premiere.
more »Fascinatingly ambivalent, semi-fictional account, which ultimately expands to confront the whole notion of identity.
more »The production marks the first time Meister has worked with SRTP. He wanted to work with the company since seeing 2010s “Scorched,” which he called one of the best theatrical experiences he has had in Chicago.
more »‘Yellow Face’ raises timely questions, Chicago Sun Times, June 21, 2011
more »Stepping in and out of the role of race, Chicago Tribune, June 21, 2011
more »Issues of race, theater and the world beyond theater are front and center in Hwang’s provocative, funny, self-deprecating and razor-sharp 'Yellow Face'.
more »David Henry Hwang’s metatheatrical take on color and culture has an appealing tint, Time Out Chicago, June 20, 2011
more »Playwright Henry David Hwang, Time Out Chicago, June 20, 2011
more »David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face is a Real Whodunit!, Theatreworld Internet Magazine, June 20, 2011
more »Comedy and the thoughtful philosophy and relevance of the topic of racial stereotyping and profiling make Yellow Face well worth the time.
more »YELLOW FACE, Chicago Critic, June 19, 2011
more »"YELLOW FACE": Masking Reality with Colorful Lunacy, The Fourth Walsh, June 19, 2011
more »Yellow Face/Silk Road Theatre Project, Newcity Stage, June 20, 2011
more »Chinglish Lessons: The playwright on the Chicago summer of David Henry Hwang, Newcity Stage, June 15, 2011
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