Asquared Asian American Performing Arts Festival Day Three November 11
NAATCO (New York, NY)
Bullheaded Rima oris Singing
past Jorge Ignacio Cortinas
September 14 to Oct 6, 2007
See News story. Reviews here.
Reviews are here, hither, here, here. And here.
Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN)
Bahala Na (Let It Go)
A World Premiere
Written by Clarence Coo; Directed past Jennifer Weir
September 14 to October vii, 2007
Spanning decades from the 1920'due south in China to the 1990's in America, BAHALA NA is virtually a dying Chinese adult female who conjures upwardly memories of her life in Red china and the Philippines, in hopes of transforming her gay grandson. Her memories, steeped in conflicts almost race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and generational differences, open doors to the past, grip her heart, and atomic number 82 her to an unexpected ending.
Tickets are available at 612.338.6131 or www.mixedblood.com.
For Three Nights But In Berkeley!
Wong Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Written and Performed by Kristina Wong
Direction by Nurit Siegel
Oct four-6, 2007 8pm
La Pena Cultural Eye in Berkeley
3105 Shattuck Ave.
Tickets are $7-15 on Th (sliding calibration)
$12 advance/$xv door on Friday and Saturday
For more data and advanced tickets: http://lapena.org/calendar/2007/10
For grouping tickets! Call Sarah Guerra at 510-849-2568 x11
"Wong's one person show injects her trademark IRREVERENT HUMOR into a piece of work of unblinking social commentary."
–San Francisco Bay Guardian"One adult female evidence keeps the laughs coming as it tackles issues of depression."
-- Philadelphia Metro
Incisive writer and performer Kristina Wong mixes sharp sense of humor and shaky psychology in Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a swear-to-god-not-autobiographical, serio-comic portrayal of the high incidence of anxiety, depression and mental illness among Asian American women. Tangling, spinning, and unravelling yarns, she asks: Which came beginning? The sky-high suicides of Asian American women? The maddening world? And when the heck exercise we become to climax? Wong's irreverent and provocative piece of work has given her a national cult following for "politically charged art with unapologetic humor." –Bitch Magazine.
Knitters—cuckoo and not—are invited to knit in the audience during the shows.
FOR MORE INFO VISIT: http://www.kristinawong.com
Wong Flew over the Cuckoo'south Nest is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project deputed by Asian Arts Initiative and La Peña Cultural Center. Funding for Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has also been provided past the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, and La Peña's New Works Fund supported past The James Irvine Foundation. Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is also a Project of Creative Capital.
Pangea World Theatre (Minneapolis, MN)
a Disease called Freedom
Oct iv to 7, 2007 (Thursday - Sunday)
vii:xxx p.m.
AVALON THEATRE
1500 East Lake Street in Minneapolis (abode of In the Heart of the Beast)
Later on two sold-out shows last year, Pangea Earth Theater Presents The Means Ensemble in their new bear witness, a Disease called Freedom, opening this Thursday at the Avalon Theater.
Featuring improvisational dance and jazz, spoken discussion, and projected images from artists: Tom Kanthak, Steve Hirsh, Roxane Wallace, Rene Ford, Michael O'Brien, Mankwe Ndosi, Kenna Sarge, J. Otis Powell!, Bill Cottman and Beverly Cottman. Their spirits bounce together to plough you upside down!
Box Part: 612.203.1088
or buy online at www.ticketweb.com
Presented by Pangea World Theater
Plug-In (NYC, NY)
A Staged Reading in Japanese & English
Rythm Method
by Sanae Iijima & Yumi Suzuki
October five and half dozen, 2007
Reading dates: 10/v(Fri) & 10/vi(Sat) : 7 PM @ TBG Arts Center (The Garret studio)
A story of a Japanese obstetrician called Kyusaku Ogino; who was first in the globe to determine the timing of ovulation. Birth control exercise is known as "Ogino method" in Nihon and considering information technology involves no device or drugs it became the only method of nascency control acceptable to the Roman Catholic Church.
The story covers the 3 years of his life in 1910's and on how he adamant the timing of ovulation, his personal life, his patients, nascence and death.
East Due west Players (Los Angeles, CA)
Durango
past Julia Cho
September 19 to October 14, 2007
Boo-Seng Lee who is laid off from the job to which he has devoted the concluding 25 years of his life. He decides to take his 2 sons, Jimmy and Isaac, on a route trip to Durango, Colorado. As they brand their way beyond the Arizona desert, they confront family secrets, peeling back the layers of identity, alienation and duty that define being Asian in America. Durango promises to be a thought-provoking examination of the fears, fantasies, and failures of a family unit standing in the shadow of the American Dream.
See News story. Reviews hither, here, here, here, hither.
Ma-Yi Theatre
The Children of Vonderly
by Lloyd Suh
September 22 to October 21, 2007
Ma-Yi Theater Company presents the World Premiere of Lloyd Suh's new play The Children of Vonderly at The Due east 13th Street Theatre from September 22 through October 21. After intensive in-house workshops in July, the cast and creative team are set to bring this uniquely American story to life.
See News story.
Theater Wit (Chicago, IL)
Men of Steel
by Qui Nguyen
September 25 to October 28, 2007
Timescape Arts Grouping &
Japanese American Museum (Los Angeles)
Innocent When You Dream
by Ken Narasaki
October 6 to 28, 2007
See News story. See feature story.
Reviews are here.
Aono Jikken Ensemble (Seattle, WA)
Featured In The Silent Moving picture - Live Operation Extravaganza
Make Upon The Brain!
Oct x & eleven , 2007
The Cinerama
Seattle, Washington
Tickets & Information:
October 12 & 13 , 2007
Picture palace 21
Portland, Oregon
October 23 , 2007
Auditorio Ibirapuera
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Seattle'due south Aono Jikken Ensemble (AJE) has been commissioned to create and tour a live foley/sound score for the acclaimed new silent film Brand Upon The Brain! past award-winning filmmaker Guy Maddin. This volition exist part of special limited engagements in which the film is accompanied by a live orchestra, narrator, castrato singerand a team of foley/sound artists (AJE).
Equal parts babyhood reminiscence, expressionist horror moving picture, teen detective serial and One thousand Guignol reverie, Brand Upon The Brain! is an extravagant silent film picture show event custom concieved for the pomp and ceremony of a yard movie-palace. Produced by The Moving picture Company and shot on location in Seattle, Brand Upon The Brain! received it'south world premiere at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival and has been touring the world festival circuit to dandy acclaim since.
Told in flashback the film'sstory finds 12 year-former Guy lazing abroad his under-stimulated youth with his teenage sis on the mysterious island that one mean solar day, he stands to inherit. They share this island with a horde of orphans all living together in the lighthouse which doubles as the orphanage. Their every move is vigilantly watched over past Guy's overbearing and tyrannical female parent from the pinnacle of the lighthouse while his father, a scientist and inventor, secretly works away in the basement morning time apex and night. When children adopted from the isle are found to have mysterious head wounds, teen detectives Wendy and Chance Unhurt - blood brother and sister sleuths known as the Lightbulb Kids - visit Guy's island to investigate. Guy and Sis fall difficult for the dynamic duo only things are not what they seem to be. Hormone driven crushes, gender confusion and a dearest that dare not speak its name must be kept hidden from Mother at all costs. As the investigation progresses, it leads the kids into the darkest regions of revelation and repression and spins dangerously out of control every bit the terrible secrets of Guy's family are laid bare...
Managing director and co-writer Guy Maddin, ane of flick'due south well-nigh iconoclastic auteurs, has fabricated previous forays into cinema's past with acclaimed piece of work like Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary, a collaboration with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, in which the vampire tale is told through trip the light fantastic toe and shot in the way of a classic silent film. He conjured upward the 1930's era of early talkie films with The Saddest Music In The World, in which a Canadian amputee beer baroness (a majestic Isabella Rossellini tottering on beer-filled glass legs) plots to corner the globe's beer market via a rigged song contest. Brand Upon The Brain! continues in this vein and is an exhilarating do in stretching film vocabulary to its limits and represents Guy Maddin's work at its paradoxically nearly sophisticated and incautious!
The Brand Upon The Brain! live caricature features an orchestra performing Seattle composer Jason Staczek's lush score which includes a solo for a castrato singer (don't enquire); a celebrity narrator (tba) providing a seperate but companion commentary to the film's inter-titles; and the Aono Jikken Ensemble providing all manner of odd sounds. AJE's contribution is part traditional foley work, part experimental sound fine art, function performance fine art. AJE, silent film score veterans with a dozen projects under their chugalug, are taking the baton from the moving-picture show's original foley artists to provide on-the-money audio effects for everything from footsteps and doors opening to the sounds of nature inherent in the story's isle setting and sonic representations of the fantastical inventions on display. AJE will also contain information technology'due south more impressionistic style using their unique mix of traditional instruments, establish objects, childrens toys and invented sound devices. Encouraged by the picture'southward producers to follow the director'south wish to expose modern audiences to the art of film sound AJE, featuring Susie Kozawa, William Satake Blauvelt and Dean Moore, will exist upfront and middle giving a operation-within-a-functioning.
Make Upon The Brain! will recieve it's Northwest premiere courtesy of the Northwest Film Forum with these live performance extravaganzas in Seattle at The Cinerama (2100 4th Ave.) on October 10th and 11th at 8 pm. Since these live shows are such a big and expensive undertaking they are a once-in-a-lifetime type of event not to be missed. In a bonus, since the film was shot in Seattle using a mostly locally-based cast and crew this will be the movie's homecoming/premiere and director Guy Maddin will be in attendance on October 11. The Seattle screenings are office of Northwest Picture Forum's 10th Annual Local Sightings Motion picture Festival. This leg of the Brand Upon The Brain! bout goes on to Portland, Oregon on October 12th and 13th at Picture palace 21 and then on to Brazil at Sao Paulo's Auditorio Ibirapuera on October 23rd. Catch information technology while you can!
Note: Make Upon The Encephalon! is not rated and contains material that may be unsuitable for children.
Asian American Theatre Company (San Francisco, CA)
Stop Kiss
past Diana Son
October 11 to 28, 2007
Cancelled
See News story.
Pocket-size Pond Entertainment
Always Family
past Jeremy Lum and Simmone Yu
October 12 to 27, 2007
The Kirk @ Theatre Row
(410 Due west 42nd St.,
(btwn 9th & tenth Aves.)
Website: www.AlwaysFamily.cyberspace
ALWAYS Family unit is a tale of an Asian-American family's struggle through expectations of perfection while coming to the realization that no matter where you are from, you're ALWAYS FAMILY.
Discount offering:
$fourteen.75 (Regularly $18.00) - Valid for all performances WITH STUDENT ID.
iii Ways to order:
ane. Visit www.TicketCentral.com Use code: KIDS
2. Phone call (212) 279-4200 and Use code: KIDS
iii. Bring a printout of this offering to The Kirk Theatre box office
(410 West 42nd St., btwn 9th & 10th Aves.).
Restrictions:
Offer is subject to availability and prior sale; not valid on prior purchases; cannot exist combined with whatever other discounts or promotions. Blackout dates may apply. Limit 8 tickets per order. No exchanges or refunds. Telephone and Internet orders subject to standard service fees.
fu-GEN (Toronto, Canada)
fiRE GALA
an annual fundraising feast
performances * silent auction * raffle
Monday, Oct 22, 2007
Doors open 6:30 pm * Dinner 7:00 pm
Brilliant PEARL RESTAURANT
346 ? 358 Spadina Artery (N. of Dundas)
Tickets i/$40 * Tabular array of 10/$350
Latino Theatre Festival (Los Angeles)
Ma-Yi Theatre
The Romance of Magno Rubio
by Lonnie Carter
October 25 to 28, 2007
Th - Sabbatum: 8pm; Sunday: 3pm
THE NEW LATC, Theatre 2
514 South Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 featuring:
Arthur T. Acuña, Bernardo Bernardo, Ramon De Ocampo, Jojo Gonzalez, Paolo Montalban Fix Design: Loy Arcenas | Lighting Design: James Vermeulen
Original Music & Sound Blueprint: Fabian Obispo | Costume Blueprint: Clint Ramos
Move: Kristin Jackson | Phase Manager: Jenn McNeil
For Tickets: 323-461-3673 or online at www.thenewlatc.com
Regular Price: $28 | Student/Senior/Groups: $15
For groups, telephone call 213-489-0994
The Romance of Magno Rubio is the OBIE Accolade-winning story of heartache and dreams. Gear up in the central valleys of California in the 1930's, the play tells the tale of Magno, a brusque Filipino migrant worker who longs for love. Each nighttime before going to bed, he peruses his collection of Hollywood magazines, dreaming of his own Silver Screen romance. Ane night, he finds a solitary-hearts advertising for Clarabelle, a woman from Arkansas who is looking for a pen pal. Assertive he's establish the respond to his dreams, he hires a co-worker to write his blonde beauty. Working dawn 'til sunset, picking asparagus by the pound so he can buy love by the word, Magno's infatuation with Clarabelle grows with each letter received. He proposes marriage and wires money for his fantasy girl to come to California so they can kickoff their new life together. Just as Magno soon realizes, reality and dreams don't always align .
Barnsdall (Los Angeles, CA)
Me So Funny
Featuring: D'Lo, OPM, Lan Tran and Kristina Wong, Curated by Viet Le, Yong Soon Min and Leta Ming
October 27, 2007
eight- 9:30pm
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
(Barnsdall Art Park,
4800 Hollywood Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90027)
me then funny features all-star functioning excerpts highlighting a wide breath of cutting-border humour. Come up early to take hold of the humor us exhibition from v-8pm and stay late to mingle with the performers at the reception. Free mail-show reception with live visuals by VJ Fader nine:30-11pm
Featuring: D'Lo, OPM, Lan Tran and Kristina Wong, Curated by Viet Le, Yong Shortly Min and Leta Ming
$fifteen assigned seating tickets bachelor only online at http://www.humorus.net or http://www.itsmyseat.com/DisplayEvent.html?sse=316428
Uncle Gunjiro's Girlfriend
Nippon-Usa Creative Fellows Performance
Featuring Brenda Wong Aoki and Marker Izu
7:00 P.One thousand. Friday, Oct. 26, 2007
Lecture Hall, International House of Japan
Uncle Gunjiro'south Girlfriend
A family cloak-and-dagger is unraveled to reveal an incredible tale of forbidden passion occasioned by a matrimony betwixt a Caucasian woman and a Japanese man in the U.s.. In 1909, Brenda Wong Aoki's not bad uncle Gunjiro fell in love with Helen Gladys Emery, the daughter of the Archdeacon of San Francisco'south Grace Cathedral. Their announced date triggered a media rush of "xanthous peril" headlines, provoked public outrage, death threats and culminated in the loss of Emery'south citizenship. This lecture will include archival photographs, music and a performance extract from the total-length play Uncle Gunjiro's Girlfriend, which has been performed throughout the Us and at the Adelaide International Arts Festival in Australia. The reading/performance will be accompanied with original music past Mark Izu and Kai Kane Aoki-Izu. Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu United states-Nippon Friendship Committee
Artistic Creative person Fellows currently residing in Nihon.
A playwright and composer, Brenda and Marking are from San Francisco (world wide web.firstvoice.org).
Date: Oct. 26, 2007, seven:00 PMVenue: IHJ Lecture Hall
Language: English with some consecutive translation
Admission: Gratuitous (reservations requested)
Co-sponsored with the US Embassy in Japan
For information or reservations please contact the International Firm of Japan Programme
Office: 03-3470-3211 or e-mail: ihj-arts@i-house.or.jp.
Online reservations can be made at www.i-house.or.jp
LODESTONE THEATRE ENSEMBLE
A staged reading of
Kitchen Table
Written by Eugenie Chan
October 29, 2007
Directed by Chil Kong
Featuring John Michael Brook, Dennis Dun, Kennedy Kabasares, Molly Mickelson, Freda Foh Shen, Angie Tsang & Juliet Wong
KITCHEN TABLE follows the heartbreak of Nicky Wong, a young Corvette-crazy Chinese American man, through the demise of his family's traditional Chinese before-dinner grace. Nicky's happiness depends on how much he pleases his iron-fisted male parent, the obeisant way he bids his begetter to "sik fan" or "please swallow." When Nicky'southward obsession with his 'Vette and the white mechanic who helps him fix it gets in the way of the family dinner, a battle between son and begetter ignites, every bit Nicky struggles to carve out his version of manhood, both in and outside the tradition.
Monday, October 29, 2007
8pm
GTC BURBANK
1111-B W. Olive St.
Burbank, CA 91506
(within George Izay Park, but due west of S. Victory Blvd.)
Costless Admission (simply donations gladly accustomed and encouraged).
FREE PARKING: Park near the jet airplane in front of George Izay Park at 1111 W. Olive St. Walk into the park, past Olive Recreation Center. GTC Burbank is behind the Rec. Eye, facing the softball fields.
NO RSVPS required, still, please arrive at least ten minutes earlier curtain for seating (which is limited and on a first-come basis).
THERE WILL Exist NO Belatedly ADMISSION!
Silk Route Theatre (Chicago, IL)
Merchant on Venice
by Shishir Kurups
September 15 to November four, 2007
Silk Road Theatre Project at The Celebrated Chicago Temple Edifice
77 W. Washington St., Pierce Hall, Chicago
Be the commencement to see this exciting world premiere production of Shishir Kurups Merchant on Venice. Venice, Italian republic intersects with the Indian Diaspora of Venice Beach, California in a wildly inventive re-imagining of Shakespeare'south Merchant of Venice. Written in iambic pentameter and vividly colored by Indian, American and Latino pop references, Shakespeare'south original is transformed by injecting the story with Bollywood musical numbers, L.A. Punk, and a distinctly American mural.
Second City (Chicago, IL)
The Best of Tens
The Some of All Parts
by Mrinalini Kamath
Oct 13, xx, 27 & November three, 2007
2nd City at Donny's Skybox presents: The Best of Tens
Six 10-minute comic plays from Chicago Dramatists, featuring The Some of All Parts, by Mrinalini Kamath
Saturdays, October xiii, 20, 27 & November iii, 2007
Time: x:30 pm
Second City at Donny's Skybox
1608 N. Wells Street
4th Floor of Piper'southward Alley
Chicago, IL 60610
Tickets: $12
For tickets, telephone call 312.337.3992 or go to
https://chitickets.secondcity.com/Online/ pick the desired date and
select "2007 Skybox: The Best of Tens
Alter Ego Productions (NYC, NY)
The Leopard and the Fox
Written by Rajiv Joseph
Inspired by Tariq Ali's BBC teleplay
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
October 17 to November 3, 2007
Political betrayal. Broken promises. From the last days of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to nowadays mean solar day Pakistan. A powerful new drama.
Starring: Michael Crane*, Andrew Guilarte, Sanjiv Jhaveri*, Rock Kohli*, Ramiz Monsef*, Gita Reddy and David Sajadi*.
Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 pm, Saturdays & Sundays at 2 pm
TBG Theater, 312 W. 36th St (8th/9th Aves), Floor 3W
Closest train: A/C/E to 34th Street
or 1/2/3 or N/R/W/Q or B/D/F/Five to 34th Street
Tickets: $18
www.smarttix.com or 212-868-4444
www.alteregoproductions.comReview hither.
Pork Filled Players (Seattle, WA)
at the Theatre Off Jackson present
Oct nineteen to November iii, 2007
PFP celebrates its tenth (gulp!) Anniversary Flavour, returning to the Theatre Off Jackson! A video teaser is here.
With special guest stars Assaulted Fish
and Disoriental!
Run into News story.
SIS Productions (Seattle, WA)
Sex in Seattle, Episode 15
The Anatomy of Love
Oct 19 to Nov 10, 2007
See News story.
Reviews here. Another characteristic here.
eighteen Mighty Mount Warriors (Los Angeles, CA)
Louder! Faster! Funnier!
October 25 to November 11, 2007
Featuring ALL NEW one-act that is louder, faster and funnier than anything in your bedroom! Well, maybe not faster!
WHAT: Louder! Faster! Funnier! All new comedy from 18mmw!
WHEN: October 25-Nov xi, 2007, Thur, Friday, Sat @ 8pm, Sundays @ 2pm
WHERE: GTC Burbank, 1111-B Westward. Olive Ave., Burbank, CA 91506
HOW MUCH: $15 general admission, $xiii students/seniors, $11 groups of x or more
Sundays pay what you can! (Except for closing Dominicus, Nov. 11)
INFO/RESERVATIONS: Call 818-754-4500 (vm) or
email the Warriors.
or reserve tickets online at the 18MMW website.
Written and Performed by: Valiant Chow, Rhoda Gravador, Michael Hornbuckle, Todd Nakagawa, Greg Watanabe, Peter J. Wong, Pearl Wong
Review: "The 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, a San Francisco based one-act troupe, presents their current production appropriately named LOUDER! FASTER! FUNNIER!, performing as a visiting product at the GTC-Burbank theater.
A group of half-dozen Asian American players, consisting of Valiant Chow, Michael Chih Ming Hornbuckle, Todd Nakagawa, Greg Watanabe, Pearl Wong, and Peter J. Wong (no relation), create and perform in a serial of sixteen separate skits and blackouts that range from a presentation of the history of China in iii minutes told in a 'rap' beat, various versions of the taking of Iwo Jima during WWII, a business person booking a trip to Thailand that isn't going for the open sex, a lesson of the appreciation of the male person Asian body, and a whole lot more! Since the unabridged bandage is of Asian decent, one can come across how much of the culture of Japan, Korea, People's republic of china, Taiwan, etc. is woven into their skits. However, different other so-chosen "indigenous" comics and their related comedy material, the 18MMW does not utilise putdowns, turn offs, or annihilation that is remotely cocky derogatory within their humor. They laugh at Asian-based stereotypes that they even retrieve is funny! The audience laughs forth without feeling any guilt or embarrassment--something that is rare to find within such humour in these mail modern "politically right" times
For those that can enjoy a good laugh, LOUDER! FASTER! FUNNIER! is a well labeled description of what the 18MMW is all well-nigh. Or to stand correct, it's not every bit loud as ane believes--merely information technology is faster n' funnier!"
Pangea World Theate (Minneapolis, MN)
Personal Effects
November 2 to 11, 2007
Inspired by the work of New York choreographer Tere O'Connor, the Personal Effects Ensemble presents an evening of kinetic storytelling through movement, media and text. Past turns outlandish and serious, Personal Furnishings looks not merely at the shape of things we fear, but at what we prize and what we keep.
Personal Effects Ensemble: Christa Yelich-Koth, Debbie Tallen, Forest Godfrey, Garry Geiken, Heidi Berg, Linda Doran, Phyllis Thorne, Sasha Walloch, Sean "Maggie" Wagner Reception following November second performance. Mail-operation give-and-take following Saturday performances.
Personal Furnishings
November 2-x (Friday - Dominicus) seven:30 p.g.
Nov 11 (Sunday) 2:00 p.m.
Pangea Earth Theater Studio
Calhoun Edifice, 711 West Lake Street, Ste 101 - Minneapolis
Box Part: 612.203.1088
or purchase online at www.pangeaworldtheater.org
Theater For The New Urban center (NYC, NY)
Ryuji Sawa: The Return
November 6 to 11, 2007
Featuring The All-time Of Japanese Pop Theater
An Exciting Blend Of Kabuki Trip the light fantastic toe, Taiko Drumming, Sword Fighting And Martial Arts Created Past Legendary Japanese Role player Ryuji Sawa
Press Invitation: Tue 11/6 @8pm, Wed 11/seven @8pm & Thu 11/8 @8pm
Producer Toshi Hirano of TKO Entertainment is pleased to nowadays a limited engagement of Ryuji Sawa: The Return, a Japanese show incorporating dazzling elements of Japanese popular theater, including Kabuki trip the light fantastic toe, Taiko drumming, sword fighting, martial arts and instant costume changes. Ryuji Sawa: The Return, created and directed by Ryuji Sawa, will run from November half-dozen to 11, 2007 at Theater for the New City (155 1st Ave.) in NYC. There is no dialogue in the show, making it entertaining for audiences of all backgrounds and ages.
Various City Theater (NYC, NY)
Pure
past Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza
Nov six, 2007
2007 "Palanca Honor" Winner for All-time Play,
at The Cherry Lane Theatre on Tuesday,
November 6th at 7PM
Obie Honor Winner Ching Valdes-Aran and Raul Aranas Lead the Cast;
The Public Theater'southward May Adrales Directs
NEW YORK--Diverse City Theater Company ("DCT") announces that it will present a staged reading of Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza's new full-length play, PURE, the grand prize winner of the 2007 "Palanca Accolade" for All-time Play, on Tuesday, November 6th at 7PM at The Cherry-red Lane Studio Theatre located at 38 Commerce Street in New York City.
The "Palanca Honour" or Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Accolade for Literature is the Philippines' most prestigious literary award and is dubbed equally the "Pulitzer Prize" of the Philippines.
The play is nearly a family in exile and the secrets they go along from 1 some other. Atong, a US war veteran, is confronted by his wife'southward gambling addiction. His married woman, Paning, copes with the news of their son'southward life-threatening disease and their girl's unexpected inflow from the Philippines. The story culminates at a dramatic family reunion where they are forced to face each other's secrets and all.
Playwright Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza has won numerous literary awards and acclamation, including the prestigious Palanca Honour. Her produced plays include COLD Flesh, which was part of Diverse Urban center Theater's Equality Playwrights Festival at Theatre Row's Clurman Theater (August 2006); SANDMAN, which was function of the 2002 Actors Studio Repertory season; MIGRATION BLUES, three of her comedy plays, were presented at the New Schoolhouse's Tishman Auditorium as part of the University Diversity Initiative (October 2002). She earned her Doctorate from Drew University with a degree in Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Criticism in 1999 and an MA in Linguistics from the University of the Philippines. She completed her MFA in Playwriting at the Actors Studio of the New School University.
Currently working every bit an Artistic Associate at The Public Theater, May Adrales has directed and developed piece of work at 2nd Stage Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, New Bailiwick of jersey Repertory, The Hypothetical Theatre, West Coast Ensemble, and The New York International Fringe Festival. Recent projects include Tommy Smith'southward WHITE HOT (Hither Arts Center), Alexandra Collier's THE WILL OF THE COCKROACH (The Production Company), Sergei'due south Dreznin'due south OPHELIA: OPERA IN BLUE (Prospect Theater Visitor) and Jose Rivera'due south Cloud TECTONICS (Pure Theater). She is on kinesthesia and head administrator of The Public Theater Shakespeare Lab. Adrales received her MFA in directing at Yale Schoolhouse of Drama.
Pure will feature Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran* (Macbeth, The Wild Party), Raul Aranas* (Flower Drum Vocal, The King & I, Miss Saigon), Liz Casasola*, Christopher Kromer* and Victor Lirio*. Stage Manager: Phil Gutierrez.
For reservations, electronic mail rsvp@diversecitytheater.org. Suggested donation: $x (at the door).
* Member of Actors Disinterestedness Clan
The reading of Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza's Pure is made possible due to the generous support from Warren Bodow and Joan & Richard Firestone.
Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA)
Marcus Young Artist Presentation
Friday, November 9, 1:00 pm
At their temporary location: 105 Northward. Watts Street Philadelphia, PA
Calorie-free Refreshments provided
To RSVP contact Chon at 215.557.0455 or chon@asianartsinitiative.org.
Teada Productions
Refugee Nation
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge, MA)
October 12 to xiii, 2007
Out Due north (Anchorage, AK)
November 9 to 12, 2007
Bunnell Street Gallery (Homer, AK)
November sixteen to 17, 2007
See here for details.
dueEast Theatre Company
in conjunction with A-Squared Theater Workshop (Chicago, IL)
Trial by Water
Qui Nguyen
October 26 to Nov 18, 2007
See News story.
Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN)
Mu Daiko At The Ritz
November 9 to 18, 2007
at The Ritz Theater, 343 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis
Fridays and Saturdays at viii:00 pm; Dominicus at 2:00 pm
Mu Daiko Tickets: November 9-xi: $22 adults; $twenty pupil/senior; $xviii groups ten+
Mu Daiko/TaikoProject Tickets: Nov 16-18: $26 adults; $24 educatee/senior; $22 groups ten+
Preview: Th, November 8 @ viii:00 pm: $15
Nationally-recognized Twin Cities taiko ensemble Mu Daiko unveils new work and revisits classic compositions with eye-pounding rhythms, elegant choreography and joyous free energy. They are joined on the second weekend by LA's TaikoProject, the first American-based grouping to win the Tokyo International Taiko Contest. TaikoProject has been featured on network Tv and Mitsubishi commercials in performance infused with hip-hop movement, theater, music and video.
Tickets are available at 612-436-1129 or www.ticketworks.com/ritz
Asian American Writers' Workshop (NYC, NY)
My Friend Has Come up
by Toshiro Suzue
November 16, 2007
A staged reading, directed by James Yaegashi
A hot summertime day somewhere in nowhere Nihon. A friend waits. A friend comes. A friend leaves. This uncomplicated story of two friends humorously and poignantly reminds us of the sweetness and pain of connecting with some other human being.
Written early in his career by Toshiro Suzue, the forerunner in the "quiet theater" motion in Japan, this play won the OMS Drama Prize, the offset of many prestigious awards the playwright has received. The play is expected to take its American premier in 2009.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, tenth Floor
(btwn Broadway & fifth Avenue)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Theatre/Linguistic communication/Vision: Changing the World with Words
Visions and Voices
Nov 17, 2007 : 2:00pm
University Park Campus
Doheny Memorial Library
Intellectual Commons, Room 233
Free
Award-winning extra Esther K. Chae will read excerpts from several plays past Velina Hasu Houston. Following the reading, Houston and Chae volition engage in a discussion with the audition on the impact of theatrical language in plays on the human spirit and condition.
A professor, resident playwright and creator and director of the USC School of Theatre'south MFA in Dramatic Writing programme, Velina Hasu Houston believes that language has the ability to affect usa in life-transforming means. Her plays, including Tea, Asa Ga Kimashita and Calling Aphrodite, have been produced internationally. She has besides received numerous awards, including the Pinter Review Prize for Drama and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award.
Esther K. Chae has returned to Los Angeles from New York, where she was instruction at NYU'due south Tisch School of the Arts. Chae'south numerous credits span several areas of the amusement world and include the television programs North.C.I.Due south., Law and Social club Criminal Intent, Night Stalker, The West Wing, ER, SWAT and Days of Our Lives. Her theatre credits include Pojagi;The Korea Projection (Obie nomination, La Mama); Awakening (P.Due south. 122); The First Line (Women's Project & Production); Measure for Measure (Yale Repertory Theater); Piano (Harvard/A.R.T.); Yellowface (Mark Taper Forum); Afar Shore (Kirk Douglas Theatre); and Masha No Dwelling (East West Players). Chae has also written, produced and directed a short motion-picture show and three stage plays and her solo performance So the Pointer Flies is currently under evolution for a full production.
Organized by Velina Hasu Houston (Theatre).
For farther information on this issue:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/
Desipina (NYC, NY)
Prince of Delhi Palace
Nov 17 to 19, 2007
Desipina & Visitor kicks off Season vi with The Prince of Delhi Palace a workshop product. Performances will be held November 17-19, 2007. Details coming presently on www.desipina.org!
The play adjusted from Shakespeare'due south Hamlet takes place in a curryshop post-obit a begetter's demise by a poisoned pickle and a female parent's remarriage to the begetter's twin. The son returns from abroad in search for 1 expert memory of the dead man's worth amongst the turmeric stained dishes, the pungent losses and the salted scars he left behind.
In the procedure, he is forced to wonder if he can he remain true to his own values or will he just become "...his father'south little monster. The offspring of his stain?"
Erstwhile Dominon Academy (Norfolk, VA)
Sarimanok Travels
Francis Tanglao-Aquas
November 19, 2007
Play at six pm, reception follows!
A solo trip the light fantastic toe/poetry/song piece by Francis Tangloa-Aquas that highlights a Filipino folktale about the history and loss of a mystical bird that brings harmony to a kingdom. This bird also has the power to give gender to newborns. The Sarimanok Travels is a story of resilience, forcefulness, sacrifice and, about importantly, national pride.
Rasik Arts (Toronto, Canada)
Meeting with Lord Yama
by Anju Mahhija
November 20, 2007
By a strange set of circumstances, Brinda Pillai finds herself in Yamapura, the abode of the Lord of Death according to Hindu mythology. Contrary to expectations, Lord Yama turns out to be quite a ladies' man. While Brinda wonders if he will give her a fresh lease on life, she is forced to see life itself afresh every bit he questions her. Adding to this unusual, oft-comic state of affairs is the presence of Lord Yama'due south pet domestic dog.
seven pm in the dorsum room of the 5th Elementt. There is no admission charge.
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (New York, NY)
Joy Luck Order
a play by Susan Kim
adapted from the novel by Amy Tan
direction & musical staging by Tisa Chang
October 28 to November 25, 2007
extended to December ane, 2007
The internationally renown classic with universal relevance of intergenerational conflict.
Prepare in San Francisco in the lxxx'due south, THE JOY LUCK CLUB follows four Mahjong playing mothers from unlike provinces in China and their relationships with their individually distinctive American born daughters. This re-envisioning captures the historical sweep and operatic grandeur of feudal Prc and the dynamic pulse of modern America.
Histrion 3 (David Schaeffer) 'says hullo to his petty friend' in Ola N? Iwi by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. This is the 2d production of Kumu Kahua Theatre'due south 37th season of shows and runs from Nov 1st through December 1st. Photo by Mike Harada
Kumu Kahua Theatre (Honolulu, HI)
Ola North? Iwi
by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
November 1 to December 2, 2007
Get-go produced by Kumu Kahua during its 24th season (1994-'95), and written by a prolific playwright whose works have been regularly produced by Kumu Kahua and who has taught playwriting at Kumu, Ola Due north? Iwi (The Bones Live) investigates the serious issues involving the handling of indigenous human remains while simultaneously telling a story that is tender, humorous, mysterious and filled with plot twists and turns. Kneubuhl skillfully conducts a historical exploration of the pseudo-scientific and oftentimes racist motivations behind grave-robbing via a serial of historical monologues presented by 19th-century professors, physicians and phrenologists. But the cardinal story is contemporary, with the plot fix in motion when a Honolulu theater group returns from an international bout with a prepare of Hawaiian bones "illegally" reclaimed from a German language museum. Several characters announced in pursuit of the bones, for reasons which are non immediately clear, including the enigmatic Nanea, whose cognition of Hawaiian history indicates that she may have the deepest connection and most important motivation of all.
See News story.
East W Players (Los Angeles, CA)
Dawn'southward Light: The Journeying of Gordon Hirabayashi
by Jeanne Sakata
Nov 7 to December 2, 2007
DAWN'South LIGHT is the story of University of Washington educatee, Gordon Hirabayashi who, during the Japanese Internment of WWII, refused to follow evacuation orders as an exercise of his civil rights. Convicted and placed into a federal prison, it took 45 years for his confidence to exist overturned.
See News story for more details.
Kumu Kaha Theatre (Honolulu, HI)
Chang
by Gary A. Dias
Nov 27, 2007
Chang intertwines two stories; a 1937 love story that results in a murder, and a present solar day detective story. Possibly most interesting is that they play is loosely based on actual police files from the 1930s.
Bindlestiff Studio (San Francisco, CA)
BindleBlast!
1st Annual Black & White Bindleball!
November 29, 2007
Bindlestiff Studio proudly presents
1st Annual Black & White Bindleball
Honoring:
Bayanihan Community Heart,
Filipino American Employees Association of PG&E,
Lorna Chui Velasco & Dino Ignacio
Honoring anniversary STARTS at 8:00PM
Join Bindlestiff Studio on Th, Nov 29, at the 111 Minna Gallery, as it celebrates and honors outstanding customs leaders and partners at the outset annual Bindleball, a black and white gala. The Bindleball, Bindlestiff'southward hip and quirky take on a traditional cocktail party, volition too serve as a fundraiser and art sale. All proceeds will assist with the costs of moving dorsum to the theater'southward original location on 6th Street and Howard.
Bindlestiff Studio is the simply permanent Filipino American performing arts space in the nation. Rooted in SF's South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood. Bindlestiff aims to cultivate, inspire and mentor the next generation of Filipino American artists and community leaders in an affordable, community-based professional theater setting.
Founded in 1989, Bindlestiff flourished for many years as an experimental black box theater. Later eighteen years it has now evolved into a vibrant cultural institution, presenting hundreds of events and productions each year including theater, dance, music, comedy, spoken-word performances and motion-picture show showcases. Bindlestiff also offers low to no cost workshops in script writing, stand up one-act, song preparation, acting, directing, and producing for stage.
Semi-formal black and white attire requested.
Scrumptuous nutrient provided by Cheryl A. Andres Catering.
Including two Live Bands the Little Brown Brothers and Tusbibo
Bid on Bindlestiff Studio memorabilia.
Too trip the light fantastic to sounds of Bring That Trounce Back mobile disc jockey service.
For questions or more information, please contact:
Judith Ferrer
953 Mission Street
Suite thirty
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.255.0440
judith.d.ferrer@gmail.com
Teada (Southern California)
GIRL PLANET Ii
Staged Reading of Favorite Cousins
by Lindsey Haley
@ Miles Memorial Playhouse
November thirty and December 1, 2007 at 8pm
December ii, 2007 at 2pm
GIRL PLANET began in 2004 as a joined program with Eye Theatre Grouping's New Play Development Program with a series of writing workshops for emerging Latina playwrights based in Los Angeles. This twelvemonth, Teada Productions resurrects Daughter Planet with FAVORITE COUSINS, a new play by Lindsey Haley that explores the socio-economic problems that arise between two Chicana cousins and the rift caused by a desire to rise to a higher place the working course. Gear up in present Santa Monica, FAVORITE COUSINS questions the prejudices that society projects onto Chicano civilisation and its struggle to survive even within the former school neighborhoods.
Tickets: $xv each, or 2 for $20
Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Girl PLANET was fabricated possible in function by funding from the Santa Monica Arts Commission.
Sister Productions (Seattle, WA)
Clamorous!
December ane, 2007
See News article.
- A New Work by Richard Sloniker
- Our Last Hours by Serin Ngai
Quality Fourth dimension by Serin Ngai - A New Work past Roger Tang
- The Silverish Key by Maggie Lee
- Saudade past Kathy Hsieh
- Blue Capture (a comedy) by Daniel Arreola
Projekt NewSpeak (Southern CA)
The Sketch Comedy Show
Dec 1, 2007
The Ultimate Sketch One-act Show!
Performing on the same stage as the Hit NBC Goggle box Show,
"Last Comic Standing"
It's called...
The Sketch Comedy Show!
"Nosotros brand fun of Asians...because nosotros tin can!"
"Gutbustingly funny!"
"Y'all'll be on the border of your seat!"
Saturday, December 1st
half dozen:00 pm
El Portal Theater
5269 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Ticket price: presale $15 / at the door $20
Tickets can be bought online:
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questions? E-mail: info@projektnewspeak.com
A ONCE A YEAR EVENT YOU Tin'T MISS!!
The Media Club (Vancouver, BC)
Sketch Powerhouse
December 5, 2007
Midweek December five
The Media Club
695 Cambie St
Cost: $8.00
Doors at 7:30, testify at 8:30.
Come early to Swallow the 5th wall!!!
Dec five
Sketch Powerhouse:
For the starting time one-half of the show you lot will see the twisted and literary sketch group, The Skinny. Followed past the brilliant and silly Assaulted Fish.
With special guests Officer Mazaltoff the Beat CopPoet and sketch duo Vic & Jack.
The Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA)
Pappa Tarahumara performs THREE SISTERS
Wednesday, December v, 2007 7pm
Admission is Complimentary
Painted Helpmate Fine art Center
230 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215.925.9914
Gimmicky dance-theatre company, PAPPA TARAHUMARA performs for FREE this Wednesday nighttime, December 5, at Painted Helpmate Art Center in Former Urban center. The performance begins at 7pm.
Fresh from a successful run at BAM in New York Metropolis, this widely acclaimed Japanese company comes to Philadelphia for a rare performance of their eccentric, comic-tragedy, Iii SISTERS.
PAPPA TARAHUMARA adapts Anton Chekov'south literary classic to the context of the Japanese countryside in the 1960s. Its seemingly sweet portrayal of iii bored sisters grappling with womanhood spirals into a sensual and
charged meditation on female identity, coming-of age and the Japanese obsession with youth culture.
East West Players'
David Henry Hwang Writers Institute presents
SCHADENFEST:
Feel Better Nearly Yourself Past Watching Others Suffer
Dec 7 to eleven, 2007
Schadenfest features the staged readings of eight new works in progress from the David Henry Hwang Writers Plant at E West Players. Come join us equally some exciting up-and-coming playwrights share their creative process with you!
Friday, December 7 at seven:thirty PM
Quyne Paterson by Charlie Cheng
On Dec 1st, 1941, a immature man walked into a diner and met himself. If y'all could go dorsum in time and talk to yourself - What would you say? What would you lot do?
Sat, DECEMBER viii at 3PM
Fourth dimension After Fourth dimension: A Itemize Of Traumatic Events past David Hideo Maruyama
How do you move from Winter to Summer? Snapshot after snapshot of small and global tragedies that make up daily life; it's a series of photographs in words: how daughters can become fathers of men.
The Amazing Wedding Race past Peter J. Kuo
A wedding that never happens, the questionable sexuality of a brother (not really) and inappropriate attractions. Bridezilla and Volition & Grace collide to create this farcical one-act.
Saturday, Dec viii at 7PM
Infirmary, Airports, And Cemeteries by Grace Alcantara
There are 3 places that you should be for someone you love. A Hospital. Airport. And Cemetery. We all need a little assist in transition between eternities.
Orange Chicken by Christine Huynh
When loneliness leads to food poisoning...How much volition ane human being suffer only to make some friends?
Sun, December 9 at 3PM
Conversations with Sasquatch by Carmen Balas
Bob is not your average tourist. When Bigfoot meets the Big Urban center, he turns everyone's expectations on their head. Which raises the question: What is human?
The Rusty Blast Contest past Lia Tu
A young man bets his friend that he tin can make anything valuable, even a rusty nail.
Tuesday, DECEMBER 11 at seven:30PM
Trapezoid by Nic Cha Kim
A poet in love is hired by a technology call back tank to put the fine art in artificial intelligence. When the cosmos falls in love with the creator, information technology's man-fabricated versus mankind.
All performances will be held at the David Henry Hwang Theatre at 120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. Admission is a suggested $five donation.
Questions? Contact Literary Managing director Jeff Liu at (213) 625-7000 or become to http://www.eastwestplayers.org/literary.htm
Download the Schadenfest flyer for more info
Lodestone Theatre (Los Angeles, CA)
Lodestone's Holiday Party!
Featuring A Japanese Buffet, Raffle, Karaoke Bash And A Poker Showdown!
At Oiwake Eating house
Sunday, December ix, 2007
Join all your Lodestone friends and hosts Stephanie Chang, Vic Chao and Nic Cha Kim for a night of vacation cheer, tunes, raffle and poker!
Bring your friends to Oiwake Japanese Restaurant and Bar for all the vacation festivities! In that location will be an All-You-Tin-Eat Buffet and raffle drawings for smashing prizes all night long. We are also hosting a No Limit Texas
Concord-Em Tournament with prize packages for the pinnacle winners! Is poker not your thing? So bring together us for Karaoke! Don't want to sing? Then just hang out and enjoy the food, drink and holiday cheer!
WHERE:
Oiwake Restaurant in Little Tokyo
122 Japanese Village Plaza
Doors open at 6pm. Tournament starts at 7pm. Buffet is bachelor from half dozen-9pm.
COST:
$fifteen Admission at the Door (includes Dinner Cafe, Entertainment and Karaoke)
$50 Poker Tournament (includes Buy-In and Admission Fee / Dinner Buffet)
$45 Pre-Sale Tickets Available for Poker Tournament (payment must be received by December vii, 2007)
For $45 Pre-paid poker tickets, delight email confirmations to nckim6@yahoo.com and make checks out
to Lodestone Theatre Ensemble and post to:
Lodestone Holiday Poker
Attn: Lodestone Poker Fundraiser
PO Box 1072
Studio City, CA 91614
All pre-sale tickets must be received by December seventh, 2007.
No "prizes" won at the poker event are redeemable for greenbacks or have greenbacks value
Please join our MySpace:
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Second Generation Productions (New York, NY)
an In The Works staged reading
Thunder Above, Deeps Below
past A. Rey Pamatmat
directed past Pat Diamond
December 10, 2007
starring
Ephraim Lopez, Jordan Mahome, LeRoy McClain,
Maureen Sebastian and Shelia Tapia
Three homeless young friends - a Filipina-American with a subconscious past, a Filipina transsexual, and a Puerto-Rican hustler - struggle on the streets of Chicago to scrounge up enough cash to bus information technology to San Francisco before the winter common cold hits. All is going according to plan until Theresa dreams of a disguised human being searching for her on Lake Michigan, a mystery homo in sunglasses stalks Gil afterwards he becomes the star performer at a drag club, a wealthy john appears to be falling in love with Hector, and Marisol - the assistant director of a doughnut store - begins practicing magic on them with her cups of far-too-stiff coffee. With their hopes and friendships put to the test, will the trio be able to spare some change?
A dramatic comedy loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's Pericles, from the author of DEVIANT and BEAUTIFUL Day. His previous work with 2g includes DON'T E'er Leave, equally part of TEN.
Monday, December 10th, 2007
seven:00 PM
at Ensemble Studio Theatre
549 West 52nd Street
(between 10th and 11th Aves.)
New York, NY
FREE ADMISSION
Seating is limited. Reservations are required.
For reservations and additional data, please visit www.2g.org
A post-show talkback will follow the performance with A. Rey Pamatmat, Pat Diamond and the cast, moderated past Lloyd Suh
Floating in the Primordial Ocean
An evening of jazz and story
Japan
December 10, 2007
The haunting eloquence of Asian American Jazz composer Marker Izu and performance artist Brenda Wong Aoki
In concert with shakuhachi artist Christopher Yohmei, double bassist Alan Gleason, vocalist Mika Kimula and xiv year old percussionist Kai Kane Aoki Izu.
A CD and Book Release Concert for:
Threading Fourth dimension - the culmination of a musical journey, melding past and present, East and West, and Mermaid Meat - a book of Japanese female ghosts Purchase Threading Time & Mermaid Meat Now: www.firstvoice.org/
6:30PM Saturday, December. 15,, 2007
¥2,800 (Reception included)
Reservations: 03 3332 1187
Hobbit Mura
Bldg. 3F
iii-fifteen-three Nishiogi-Minami
Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167-0053
www.nabra.co.jp/hobbit/
"The music of Mark Izu is a not bad gift to the jazz tradition, to its ongoing transformation and revitalization into energetic and unpredictable new directions."
Down Shell Magazine
"Brenda Wong Aoki's stories, aboriginal and new...dominated by women battling the odds with a strength bordering on obsession."
The Washington Mail
The Tank (New York, NY)
Allow Me Tell You lot Something
Once upon a time's up: Stories about the End
December 12, 2007
to be held at the Tank
(279 Church Street between Franklin and White)
on Midweek, December 12 at ix.30pm
$7 at the door.
Fête to follow.
Curators:
Eliza Aptitude and Greg Portz
Storytellers:
Randy Gener
Geoff Grimwood
Vicky Kuperman
Caroline Lakin
Liz Stevenson
Space is limited. Please RSVP to Kippy Winston
For more information visit www.thetanknyc.org <http://world wide web.thetanknyc.org/>
or telephone call 212.563.6269
BIOGRAPHY:
Built-in and raised in Manila, Randy Gener is the writer of the plays Love Seats for Virginia Woolf (Detail Design Laboratory and National Asian American Theatre Co.), What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Iv Pieces (Dixon Identify), Wait for Me at the Lesser of the Pool (Here Arts Eye); among other works. He has directed and produced new plays by Craig Lucas, Christopher Durang, John Augustine, Lanford Wilson and Luis H. Francia, and has adjusted for the stage works by Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Pinter, Joseph Brodsky, Anton Chekhov, Kenneth Koch and Sam Shephard. In 2007, he was selected for the inaugural LaMaMa Umbria International Playwrights Residency and Retreat in Spoleto, Italia. He is the recipient of a 2000 Award for Distinguished Service and Contribution in Arts and Civilization from the National Federation of Filipino American Associations every bit well as the 2007 Arts and Culture Prize from the 10 Annual Filipinas Magazine Achievement Awards for outstanding contributions in that field. In Nov, the 10th Ceremony issue of the gay lifestyle magazine Instinct has named him 1 of America's "25 Leading Men of 2007."
Mo`olelo Performing Arts Visitor (San Diego, CA)
Cowboy versus Samurai
by Michael Golamco
November 29 to December 16, 2007
The Big Mo' has a study guide.
Reviews hither.
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre (NYC, NY)
December Staged Reading Series
The Surreptitious Of O Sono
by Elsa Rael
Directed by Ron Nakahara
December five, 2007, 7:00pm
Improvised Music past Jason Hwang With John Baray, Paul Keoni Chun, Chris Doi, Emi Fujinami Jones, Wai Ching Ho, Ballad Honda, David Inge, Shigeko Suga, Henry Yuk O-Sono's spirit cannot rest in fear her hole-and-corner will exist revealed. This play, based loosely on a 17th C. Japanese folk tale collected by Lafcadio Hearn, is composed in English using Haiku, linked-renga and choka forms of Japanese poetry.
Dumplings
by Wesley Du
Directed past Nelson T. Eusebio III
December 12, 2007, 7:00pm
With Claro Republic of austria, Louis Changchien, Chris Doi, Glenn Kubota, Ron Nakahara
Daniel, a battle-scarred warrior who came into the world fist-first, must try and protect his son, Less, from the evils of Brew, poorly made dumplings and his mother.
A heartbreaking comedy about family, friends and the fights that bind u.s.a. together.
Scenes from The Missing Woman
Written and directed by Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc
Friday December 14, 2007 7:00pm
With Tiffany Rothman and Hanh T. Thuc Tran
A painter yearns for his subject area matter who comes to life
Performed in Vietnamese and English
Trip the light fantastic toe Sit-in from Sachiyo Ito's Main Class in Kabuki and Fan Movement Followed by Christmas Party
Q&A Session with Artists, Wine and Hors D'oeuvres follow each reading
Christmas Party on December fourteen!
All readings held in
The Bruce Mitchell Room
520 8th Avenue
Third Flooring
Betwixt 36th & 37th Streets
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
520 Eighth Ave., Ste 314
New York, NY 10018
212-868-4030 (Office)
212-868-4033 (Fax)
panasian@aol.comwww.panasianrep.org
Mu Performing Arts (Minneapolis, MN)
New Directions Festival
December 8 to xvi, 2007
Asiamnesia & Works of Art
Asiamnesia
by Lord's day Mee Chomet
directed by Randy Reyes
Asiamnesia is an exploration of what it ways to exist an Asian American woman. This piece is bear witness of what half dozen creative, restless Asian American women do in a room if given time, history books, pens, and newspaper.
Featuring Sun Mee Chomet, Katie Leo, Mayano Ochi, Rose Tran, Katie Vang, and Katie Bradley.
Sabbatum December. 8th at 7pm
Lord's day Dec. 9th at 2pm & 7pm
Venue:
Center for Independent Artists
4137 Bloomington Av. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Tickets: All Tickets $7
for reservations, call 612 724 8392
Works of Art
by Paul Juhn
Directed past Victor Maog
Art is an Asian American Actor in the Big Apple and information technology ain't like shooting fish in a barrel, but with a little aid from his friend, he finds himself on a journeying of self discovery, and true romance.
Featuring Paul Juhn.
Saturday, Dec 15, 7pm
Sun, December xvi, at 2pm & 7pm
Venue:
Mu Performing Arts Studio
2700 NE Wintertime St. Suite 4
Minneapolis, MN 55413
East West Players (Los Angeles, CA)
Tis The Flavour: Celebrate the Holidays with The Three Filipino Tenors
December 14 to xvi, 2007
East Due west Players (EWP), the nation's premiere Asian American theatre company and the longest running professional theatre of colour in operation in the United States, is selling out performances for its special vacation performance. EWP brings holiday cheer to the David Henry Hwang Theater in Niggling Tokyo with ''TIS THE Flavour: Celebrate the Holidays with the Iii Filipino Tenors, a holiday concert with the Three Filipino Tenors. Performing for the first fourth dimension at the East Due west Players 40th Anniversary Dinner and Silent Auction, the Three Filipino Tenors are performers Antoine Diel, Randy Guiaya and Lito Villareal. After performing at several major venues they return to the EWP stage with holiday tunes and a jovial spirit.
"We are very excited to run across the success of the Three Filipino Tenors since its inception over a year agone," says East Westward Players' Artistic Director Tim Dang, "Antoine, Randy and Lito are all favorites at Eastward West Players and no stranger to the David Henry Hwang Theater having appeared in numerous mainstage musical productions. They have an astonishing energy on stage and fantastic chemistry, and nosotros look forward to seeing them share that energy during our special holiday performance."
The Iii Filipino Tenors have appeared at benefits and in concerts including, the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT), Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), USC Asian Pacific Clan of Student Services (APASS) and the National Asian American Theatre Festival. Bated from their accomplishments as a group, they individually have a strong background of singing and performing.
Antoine Diel was last seen on East West Players' stage equally Pirelli in its 2006 revival of SWEENEY TODD. He originated the office of "Ninoy" Aquino in IMELDA: A NEW MUSICAL. He has also appeared on stage at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in their production of DOGEATERS by Jessica Hagedorn as Romeo Rosales.
Randy Guiaya is a graduate of the USC School of Music and a winner of the "Artists of the Future" song competition for aspiring opera singers (sponsored by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Division). For his work in E Due west Players' BEIJING Spring, Guiaya received an invitation from the Vice President of Southern California Edison to sing the National Canticle for an Angels/Dodgers game at Edison Field.
Lito Villareal is the composer of two of the Philippines' biggest musical hits: THE LITTLE MERMAID (2001 Aliw Awards winner for All-time Musical) and THE Panthera leo, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. As an thespian Villareal's credits include LES MISERABLES, PASSION, CHANG AND ENG, and East W Players' SWEENEY TODD in the function of the Beadle.
All performances of ''TIS THE SEASON: Celebrate the Holidays with the Three Filipino Tenors will be held at the David Henry Hwang Theater at the Union Center for the Arts at 120 Gauge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. 'TIS THE Season: Celebrate the Holidays with the Three Filipino Tenors performs on Friday, December 14th at 8PM, Sabbatum, December 15th at 8PM and Lord's day, Dec 16th at Noon and at 3PM. The performances on Friday December 14th at 8PM and Sunday matinee December 16th at 3PM are sold out.
Full general ticket prices are $35 in the orchestra and $30 in the balcony. Tickets are currently on sale. For ticket purchases, subscription requests or more information, please call Eastward West Players at (213) 625-7000 or visit www.eastwestplayers.org . Grouping discounts are available. Dates and details are bailiwick to change.
Pangea Globe Theatre (Minneapolis, MN)
Ethnic Voices Series
Homeless in the Homeland:
A Poesy Slam
Hosted by Indigenous Spoken Give-and-take Artist
BOBBY WILSON
December xv, 2007
Featuring TOU SAIKO of Succulent Venom and other Celebrity Judges
Live Art by Stage 1
Frybread Artist THOMASINA TOP Comport
December fifteen, 2007 7:00pm
at the Ancient Trader'due south Gallery
1113 Eastward Franklin Ave. , Minneapolis
$five suggested donation
No one turned away for lack of funds.
No accelerate sales // Seating is limited
The early slammer gets the word.
For more information: 612-203-1088
Barnsdall Art Park Foundation (Los Angeles, CA)
Barnsdall Arts Market place
Dec 16, 2007
The Barnsdall Fine art Park Foundation is proud to present the Barnsdall Arts Marketplace on Lord's day, December 16, 2007 from 11am - 5pm.. This is a costless community consequence for those of all ages and will take place in the lower parking lot at Barnsdall Fine art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90027.
The upshot will feature a variety of local artists showing and selling their works. It is co-sponsored past the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Quango and presented in cooperation with the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles. The Los Feliz Ledger is media sponsor and the Market likewise supported past Los Angeles Metropolis Council President Eric Garcetti and KPFK 90.7fm.
"Nosotros wanted a visible outcome at street level to draw attention to the treasure of arts activities in Barnsdall also every bit the unique compages and history of the Park" said Foundation president, Cheryl Johnson. "We envision this equally a nifty opportunity for our customs to enjoy fine art, meet local artists and socialize with their neighbors."
There will be about forty artists exhibiting everything from paintings, sculpture, glasswork, textile art, ceramics, photography, handmade paper appurtenances, wood works and more. The day will besides include a family art workshop available at no cost. A diversity of light snacks and refreshments will also be available for purchase.
The Barnsdall Fine art Park Foundation was formed to support the programs and the restoration of the park'south historic structures. In addition to the Barnsdall Arts Market place, information technology has worked to install new kilns for the Barnsdall ceramics programme as well as provide new signage for the park. Barnsdall Fine art Park is dwelling to the Los Angeles Municipal Fine art Gallery, the Gallery Theatre, the Inferior Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Heart and the world-renowned Hollyhock House designed past Frank Lloyd Wright.
For information on the Barnsdall Arts Market, call 213-364-2545 or visit www.barnsdall.org. Those interested in exhibiting or possibly sponsoring the effect should contact Julie Rasmussen at julie@alittlebirdytoldme.com.
The Public Theatre (NYC, NY)
Yellow Face
by David Henry Hwang
November 19 to Dec 23, 2007
Directed By Leigh Silverman
With Francis Jue, Julienne Hanzella Kim, Kathryn Layng, Hoon Lee, Lucas Caleb Rooney, Peter Scanavino, Tony Torn
David Henry Hwang puts himself centre phase with modify-ego DHH, telling his side of the explosive controversy stirred upward when he led the protest confronting the hiring of Jonathan Pryce in the original Broadway product of Miss Saigon. Truth and fiction are hard to dissever as Hwang gives us a funny and moving backstage look at his search to confront the roles that race and ethnicity play in America.
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Metamorphisis Theatre (Southern California)
The Sunday No Longer Rises in the East
by Paul Kuo
December 13 to 23, 2007
The Sun No Longer Rises in the Eastward is an upward front and personal look at a part of Chinese History that is controversial, merely often disregarded. The story follows Ziyi, an active Christian living in Prc, in the 2d half of the twentieth century during the Cultural Revolution. He has been imprisoned and tortured for xviii years by his childhood friend, Ren for his behavior and is continually dispirited as he watches the people he comes into contact with destroyed, especially his wife Meishan who loses her faith and hope in life itself as she struggles through the darkness of the Cultural Revolution.
E West Players
Reincarnations
December 17 to xx, 2007
New works from the David Henry Hwang Writers' Institute, every bit writers give their scripts a second draft! See News for more details!
Bindlestiff Studios (San Francisco, CA)
The Return of Midnight Mass
December 20 to 22, 2007
Tickets on sale now!3
DAYS ONLY @ Space 180
Thursday - Saturday
180 Capp Street
Tertiary Floor
San Francisco, CA 94110
$x
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/25227
Join Bindlestiff for a rodeo mode bear witness that will set on the senses and leave you wondering if there's a place for you in heaven or hell. Through sketch comedy, improv, and shadows, nosotros aim to share with y'all the darker side of the Christmas Spirit. For questions or more information, delight contact:
Judith Ferrer
415.255.0440
judith.d.ferrer@gmail.com
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Source: https://www.aatrevue.com/Old/4Q2007.html
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