Silk Road theater's Jamil Khoury took aim at Mary Zimmerman and The Jungle Book only to be disarmed.
by Deanna Isaacs
On June 11, ten days before the first performances of Mary Zimmerman's much-anticipated new show, The Jungle Book, at the Goodman Theatre, Silk Road Rising artistic director Jamil Khoury fired a missive into the blogosphere that got the attention of the local theater community by blasting the writer-director. Khoury, whose theater in the Chicago Temple is just down the street from the Goodman, had run across a Chicago magazine interview with Zimmerman that touched a nerve.…[ Read more ]