By Wade Graham – Independent.com – Courtesy Photo.

The timing could not be better for the revival of Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum: it is the theater’s 50th anniversary season, and the play, commissioned specially for it, had its world premiere on the same stage in 1978, the first Chicano work produced by a major company, an immediate and lasting hit, going on to success on stages worldwide and in a 1981 film adaptation.

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