Uprising Theater shifts focus from Palestine to PPE

Performing Arts Feature | Chicago Reader: Since founding Uprising Theater Company in 2014, Iymen Chehade and Maren Rosenberg have worked to tell stories of marginalized communities, especially those of Palestinians and Palestinian Americans. The specificity of their focus—including the first-ever reading of Chicago playwright Rohina Malik’s Layla in Lala earlier this year—makes them singular. But like every other theater in Chicago, Uprising has been dark for over a month, one of countless casualties of COVID-19.