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Pork Filled Players (Seattle, WA)
At the Theatre Off Jackson (409 7th Ave. in Seattle's International District) July 10 and 11, at 8 pm, with
Asian American Theatre Company (San Francisco, CA) Fayette-Nam by Aurorae Khoo June 25 to July 11, 2009 Set on the outskirts of Fort Bragg, a troubled Asian American woman returns to her family's donut/egg roll shop in the army town of Fayetteville, North Carolina. During one momentous night, she tries to iron out her relationship with her mother and meets a young African American army private about to be deployed to Iraq. All three try to connect despite uncertainty of the future, and the soft-spoken racism and claustrophobia of those stuck on the fringes of military life. Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN) Asian American Theatre Company (San Francisco, CA) AATC NEWWORKS INCUBATOR SHOWCASE: Tuesday, June 30, 7:30pm Wednesday, July 1, 7:30pm AATC NEWWORKS INCUBATOR WORKSHOPS: Sunday, July 5, 6:00pm October 2009, TBD LOCATION FOR SHOWCASE AND WORKSHOPS: Meet the artists at Lingba Lounge (one block away) after each of the readings! Kumu Kahua Theatre (Honolulu, HI) Returning for an encore run. East West Players (Los Angeles, CA) East West Players' Actors Conservatory is pleased to present its annual Studio Lab Project - a madcap interactive dinner theatre show! Join Romeo and Jenny for a wedding and reception where everything that can go wrong, does. Dine and mingle with crazy in-laws, offbeat bridesmaids and groomsmen, exboyfriends and less-than-polite guests. Ceremonial malfunctions, Asian culture clash, family secrets, barongs and cheongsams, drunk wedding dedications, unexpected romances, musical numbers and more! Proceeds go to supporting the Actors Conservatory and East West Players' educational programs. The goal of the Studio Lab Project is to give students who have been studying with the program for a minimum of one year the opportunity to use their newly learned performance skills before a live audience and to create an environment that simulates a professional theatre process.
Ford Amphitheatre (Los Angeles, CA) Children admitted FREE to one-hour programs for families. Arrive early for crafts and fun at 9:00 a.m. All-original, ground-breaking music played on Japanese drums resounds at the Ford Saturday, July 11 at 10 a.m. when the On Ensemble visits the Ford’s Big!World!Fun! family series. This season’s family performances are inspired by the four elements – earth, air, fire, water - and science-based crafts and fun begin at 9:00 a.m. With Japanese drums at the foundation of its world fusion mix, On Ensemble takes the ancient instruments of taiko into new realms. Infusing the powerful rhythms of ensemble Japanese drumming with elements of hip-hop, rock, and electronica, On Ensemble seeks to create music that reflects the diverse interests of its four members - Masato Baba, Shoji Kameda, Kelvin Underwood and Kristofer Bergstrom. They will explain the instruments they play and their historical roots, providing context for their modern take on traditional Japanese drums. Admission to all events is FREE for children and $5 for adults, plus all Big!World!Fun! attendees receive coupons for discount admission to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Big!World!Fun! family events are hour-long performances designed for children ages 4 to 10 and their parents and grandparents. The series continues with the invigorating mix of Masanga Marimba’s “Musical Raindrops: Songs, Stories & Dances from Zimbabwe” (July 25); J.U.i.C.E. and the Hip Hop Handbook’s “A Hurricane of Hip Hop” (August 1); DreamDance’s journey into the Chinese landscape, “Dancing in the Rain” (August 8); the reverberating foot beats and high intensity of Celtic Spring’s “An Earthquake of Irish Dance” (August 15); Helios Dance Theater’s sea voyage, “The Lotus Eaters” (August 22); and Hula Halau Ka Lehua Uluwehi I Ka Lani demonstrating the graceful, expressive elements of hula in “Hawaiian Breezes” (August 29). The Big!World!Fun! Family Series is sponsored by The Nissan Foundation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation and Macy’s and presented by the Ford Theatre Foundation. The media sponsor of Big!World!Fun! is ABC7. Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
Music & Lyrics by Jay Kuo Book by Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione Arrangements and Music & Vocal Direction by Frank Johnson Allegiance is a new musical about love, loss and heroism during the Japanese American internment. This concert presentation of selected songs and scenes features actors “on-book” at music stands, without costumes, props or sets. This format permits attendees to listen to and appreciate the work’s potential in its purest and rawest form. Also Starring: Mike Hagiwara (Manzanar), Michael Lee (Miss Saigon, Pacific Overtures), Jose Llana (Spelling Bee, Rent, Flower Drum Song); Jennifer Paz (Miss Saigon, Flower Drum Song), Enrico Rodriguez (Mamma Mia, Rent), James Snyder (Cry-Baby, Bare Cast Recording) and Tamlyn Tomita (Karate Kid II, Joy Luck Club, Heroes). PROGRAM 7:00 PM - Performance (Free Admission with RSVP) 8:30 PM - Wine Reception benefiting SFNTW ($50 tax-deductible donation) Please RSVP to this event via Facebook and CONFIRM by sending email to ceci@sfntw.org For more information on our plans for Broadway and how to get involved with this groundbreaking work, please contact us at info@sfntw.org.
Vampire Cowboy Theatre (New York, NY) SOUL SAMURAI may have closed, but fan favorite FIGHT GIRL BATTLE WORLD returns this summer! Lodestone Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) A fundraiser to support Lodestone's 10th season and the production of CLOSER THAN EVER. Come out to sing and compete for cool prizes. Don't want to sing, cheer on your favorites plus free appetizers, raffle prizes, drink specials and great friends to hang with. Karaoke Idol's celebrity judges include: MICHAEL ORLAND, assistant music director and vocal coach from American Idol; RYAN O'CONNOR from the YouTube The Ryan O'Connor Show and more to come. Plus, a special sneak peek performance from the cast of CLOSER THAN EVER. TICKETS AT THE DOOR: SPECIAL LOW PRESALE PRICES (If checks received by July 17): Please make checks out to Lodestone Theatre Ensemble and mail to: All pre-sale tickets must be received by July 17th, 2009. No "prizes" won are redeemable for cash or have cash value. Please include your name, # of tickets you're buying and phone/email for confirmation. Please include all names of karaoke entrants separately. Silk Road Theatre (Chicago, IL) at Chicago DCA's Storefront Theater, July 24-26. Lavina Jadhwani will direct. The comedy riffs on Asian American stereotypes and expectations, as an "ultra-assimilated" Chinese American family acquire a Chinese indentured servant. The cast will include Danny Bernardo, Gordon Chow, Christine Lin, Nick Shoda, Kimberlee Soo, and Tiffany Villarin. The production team will include Christine Ferriter (lights) and Tamar Daskin (set). Yee's play was a finalist for the 2008 Princess Grace Award and the winner of Kumu Kahua Theatre's 2007 Pacific Rim Prize. It has previously been produced at Mu Performing Arts in Minneapolis, Impact Theatre in Berkeley, and the New York International Fringe Festival. 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (Los Angeles, CA) Start Time: Friday, July 31, 2009 at 8:00pm ALL NEW theatrical comedy sketches from the 18mmw! Comedy at the speed of laugh!
Lodestone Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) Conceived by Steven Scott Smith, the dialogue-free two-act musical features classic songs about life, love and everything in-between. See News story. Rasaka Theatre (Chicago, IL)
See News story Kumu Kahua Theatre (Honolulu, HI) Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN) Victory Garden Theatre (Chicago, IL) Vuthy Vichea is a 16-year-old Cambodian American. He loves hip-hop and Dungeons and Dragons. He is a weird kid in a place where weirdness can be fatal: Long Beach, California. And since his best friend moved and his mother died, the only person he can talk to is a human skull he keeps hidden in a cookie jar. Sharp, funny, and packing an emotional wallop, Year Zero is about being chased across an ocean by death, standing firm, and confronting it head on. An Ignition Festival standout, Year Zero subsequently won the Pacific Century Playwriting Competition at East-West Players, and is a finalist at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference. This touching family drama promises to be wonderful pick for Victory Gardens' first world premiere in its intimate new 2nd floor Studio Theater. SIS Productions (Seattle, WA) Pork Filled Players (Seattle, WA) Mo'olelo (San Diego, CA) 9 Parts of Desire explores the extraordinary and ordinary lives of a whole cross-section of contemporary Iraqi women living in Iraq , London , and New York . The play is a journey through the lives of these nine women as they deal with the world around them. Through their voices we hear multiple perspectives on and the sometimes conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in the age-old war zone that is Iraq 2nd National Asian American Theatre Festival Performances of the 2nd National Asian American Theatre Festival will be held at Theatre for the New City (155 First Ave. at 10th St) Julia Miles Theatre (424 W. 55th St.) in Manhattan. Tickets will be available for purchase via Ovation as the festival dates approach. Stayed tuned to the NAATF website for specific production dates and times. Shows include:
Performed with fast moving scenes, songs and dance, IMELDA is an involving portrait of an ambitious woman who wanted to put her country as an equal player on the world stage. Sharif Don't Like It A new one man show about the US Department of Homeland Security's dubiou.s treatment of people of Asian and Middle Eastern descent post 9/11. Bahu-Beti-Bewi (Daughter-in-Law, Daughter, Wife) A new dance/theatre piece about the lvies of contemporary women in Northern India, set to ancient songs performed by women from that region Ma-Yi Theatre Readings of new plays presented by the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the resident company of Asian American playwrights under the aegis of the Obie Award winning Ma-Yi THeater Company. Labfest is curated by Qui Nguyen and Lloyd Suh, respectively the authors of the recently acclaimed Off Broadway plays Soul Samurai and American Hwangap. National Asian American Theatre Company This re-imagining of Chekhov's 1896 masterpiece - set during the summer holiday of a renowned actress, her family and admirers on an country estate - will highlight the oft-forgotten comedy/slapstick elements of Chekhov's work. In addition, there will (I think) be Festival Panels, under the rubric of 20th Century Performances in the 21st Century: The Future of Asian American Theatre. This will be a series of public forums that examine Asian American theatre, past and present, through a variety of performance art, dance and musical performances. These will be presented by Asian Pacific Americans Contemporary Unilateral Neo-Theatre, a collective of playwrights and directions, including Kristina Wong (Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Alice Tuan (Ajax [por nobody]), Katie Pearl (Nita and Zita) and Hatnim Lee. Well, that's what the web site is saying now... Silk Road Theatre (Chicago, IL) This special event in the majestic and newly renovated main sanctuary of the Chicago Temple, First United Methodist Church promises to be a Silk Road Theatre Project milestone. The evening's entertainment will feature Silk Road inspired story, song and dance, as well as the inaugural presentation of the Silk Road Trailblazer Awards, honoring prominent artists and arts patrons. Lodestone (Los Angeles, CA)
SIS Productions (Seattle, WA) The fourth iteration of new plays by Asian American writers! Now a Seattle tradition! Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN) With San Jose Taiko. Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN) Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN) This world premiere is personal journey of discovery from Shiraishi’s own childhood in Hawaii to her work as a taiko artist with Mu Performing Arts. An intimate piece filled with ritual and song, Becoming is an uplifting work close to the heart of Mu. Interested in what's just happened in Asian American theatre? Home | News | Calendar | Directory | Bookstore/Storefront | Plays | Timeline Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Roger W. Tang (you better damn well not steal this) |
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