David Henry Hwang joins Rene Auberjonais, Christine Baranski, and Cicely Tyson; playwrights María Irene Fornés, Adrienne Kennedy; director Joe Mantello; and, posthumously, producer James Houghton in this year’s class. The Theater Hall of Fame was created in 1970 at the… Continue Reading
PAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE’s 42nd Milestone Season Board of Trustee and Benefit Committee invite you to attend… 2018 ART & ACTION BENEFIT DINNER Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 6pm At GOLDEN UNICORN Restaurant in CHINATOWN Honoring Co-Emcees ERIN QUILL and… Continue Reading
A book detailing the histories of Filipino American theater groups and artists is now available. Barangay to Broadway: Filipino American Theater History includes information on Tony Award winners such as Lea Salonga (“Miss Saigon”), Clint Ramos (“Eclipsed”), Lena Hall (“Hedwig… Continue Reading
Pork Filled Productions sounds the call again, seeking new genre plays from playwrights of color, as PFP continues Unleashed! New Pulp Stories for the 21st Century. What began as a week-long festival of seven brand-new genre plays expands into an… Continue Reading
In time for Halloween, Pork Filled Productions (PFP) and REBATEnsemble present The Night Parade, a theatre experience that immerses audiences in the supernatural and horror, based on the old Japanese folk tale,Hyakki Yagyō, Night of a Hundred Demons. Taking place… Continue Reading
As reported in the NY Times, Lauren Yee has won the Horton Foote Prize for Cambodian Rock Band, her music-infused piece about a Cambodian-American woman working to prosecute a Khmer Rouge prison warden. The woman’s father is a former guitarist who survived imprisonment under… Continue Reading
Loyola Marymount University, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, offering a BA degree in Theatre Arts, a BA degree in Dance, and an MFA in Performance Pedagogy invites applications for a Tenure Track position at the rank of Assistant Professor.… Continue Reading
Silk Road Rising co-founder, Malik Gillani, was selected by Crain’s Chicago Businessas a 2018 Chicago’s Notable LGBTQ Executive. In this first-ever list by Crain’s, the 88 LGBTQ featured leaders come from a wide range of sectors—finance, tech, nonprofits, media, the… Continue Reading
Nominations were announced for the 2018 Joseph Jefferson Equity Awards, for Chicago-area theaters working under union contracts. Chicago Asian American theatre artists snagged six nominations. They include NEW WORK Minita Gandhi, “Muthaland”— 16th Street Theater Novid Parsi, “Through The Elevated… Continue Reading
East West Players (EWP), the nation’s longest-running professional theater of color in the country and the largest producing organization of Asian American artistic work, is pleased to that announce that the award-winning Broadway musical Mamma Mia! will be part of its 53rd Anniversary Season, Culture… Continue Reading