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Oscar Nominee Demian Bichir Leads LA's Acclaimed 'Zoot Suit' Revival by Jeremy Gerard

In 1978, the late Gordon Davidson presented El Teatro Campesino’s prescient multimedia drama Zoot Suit, first at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum and then at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where it landed as Broadway’s first Chicano show. Riffing on a notorious 1942 murder, the play (and subsequent film) launched the career of a charismatic young actor named Edward James Olmos and …

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:35AM on February 14, 2017

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