Extended Interview, Performances: Albany Park Theatre Project
The Albany Park Theatre Project was started in Chicago in 1997 by David Feiner and his wife Laura Wiley in one of the most diverse immigrant neighborhoods in the country. Their goal was to bring an after-school theater program to high school students who had few extracurricular alternatives. Each year, students research, write and perform a play based on stories from their own community. Jeffrey Brown's report on the…