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Presented by the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media and the Gene Siskel Film Center, the 16th annual Asian American Showcase runs Friday, April 1, through Thursday, April 14. Among the features screening this week are Chil Kong’s documentary The Mikado Project, about an experimental Asian-American theater company thrown into turmoil by the artistic director’s suggestion that they stage Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado (Sat 4/2, 6:30 PM); Miao Wang’s documentary Beijing Taxi, which focuses on three cabdrivers in the Chinese metropolis (Sun 4/3, 6 PM, and Wed 4/6, 8 PM); and Lesley Loksi Chan’s documentary Redress Remix, about the reactions of Canadian Chinese to the official apology of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for the nation’s history of institutionalized racism (Mon 4/4, 6:15 PM). Also this week, Chicago’s Silk Road Theatre Project will present a staged reading, Seven (Sat 4/2, 8:15 PM).
