Uzbek Theatre Director, A Seattle Resident, Is Killed

“Mark Weil, a prominent theater director in Uzbekistan whose productions caused controversy in the tightly controlled former Soviet state, was stabbed to death in the Uzbek capital, a theater spokeswoman said today. He was 55. Weil, a part-time Seattle resident who founded the Ilkhom theater more than 30 years ago, was attacked in front of his apartment building in Tashkent late Thursday night….”