Calendar of Events

16-year old Chris just wants to find a safe place to live with the girl she loves- not an easy task in 1999 Uganda. Determined to be together, Chris, the daughter of American missionaries and Adiel, a local girl, meet in the village church to marry in secret. When the war outside the church walls breaks its way into their sanctuary in the form of a wounded child-soldier, all three lives become tied together forever. Cardboard Piano is a riveting testament to the power of the past to shape the future, and the bonds of love, family, and forgiveness.

A World Premiere of an Irreverent Play about the Power of Family,
Grief and the Walls that Keep Closing In 

Death and Cockroaches features a ‘Chexican’ family, part Chinese, part Mexican and is loosely based on aspiring gay playwright Eric Loo’s own cross-cultural upbringing, an irreverently honest story told from the point-of-view of a playwright in his own play about confronting grief and disappointment.

Chalk Rep, known as a leader in site-specific theatre, is taking its latest production to an actual theatre, utilizing technology and projections to transport the audience into the inside of Eric, the main character’s head. A departure for Chalk Rep, where a site-specific theatre moves inside, but still creates an intimate, inclusive world.

November 8- December 9, 2018

Drama

Don, a Chinese American, is only out to his sister, Jane—the rest of his family does not know he is gay. When Don returns home to Hawai‘i from NYC, he finds his sister engaged to his first love. June is The First Fall is a queer and moving slice of life with interweaving scenes spanning Hawai‘i and NYC, the 1840s and the present.

Come see AATP’s fall mainstage production of peerless by Jiehae Park, directed by Olivia Popp.

A biting critique on the college admissions process and brilliant commentary on the nature of identity, peerless questions just how far you might go to get what you think you deserve.

November 29, November 30, and December 1 | 8 pm | Elliott Program Center

FREE TICKETS at bit.do/peerless

Questions? Email producer Betty Lee at bitlee@stanford.edu.

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Graphic design by Cortlandt Bursey-Reece

Content warning: racist and ableist language, violence, death, discussion of suicide

Photo by Logan Ramos

For its 27^thyear theater season, CIRCA Pintig, the Chicago-based community theater company stages “Game of Trolls: Revisited”, a musical play based on Liza Magtoto’s Game of Trolls, produced by the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA). Ittells the story of Hector,a millennial working for a ‘call center’ determined to distort history in the chaotic world of digital media. His attempt to reconnect with his estranged mother, a former Martial Law activist, forces him to re-evaluate his beliefs and his work as a social media troll. The play asks “What have we learned from our past? How do we reclaim important historical lessons now distorted by social media trolls and paid hacks?Directed by Louie Pascasio, the play features original music by Demetrio Maguigad with some adapted scenes by Lani T. Montreal. It goes on stage on Nov 30-Dec 1 and 2 and 7,8, 9 at the Klausner Auditorium, 1129 N. Oakley, Chicago. Fridays @8pm, Saturdays @3pm and 8pm and Sundays @3pm

Join Hero Theatre for a reading of this beautiful play by award-winning, Los Angeles-based playwright Velina Hasu Houston. TEA sheds a light on the experiences of Japanese war brides living in the United States after WWII. After they experience a great loss, four war brides – Setsuko, Teruko, Atsuko, and Chizuye – gather to share tea. During the ceremony, the women reveal their hardships of leaving Japan for the United States. Featuring an all-female ensemble, TEA is an inspirational story of overcoming prejudice and hardship, and serves as a reminder of the struggles some of our fellows Americans face when coming to “the land of the free.”

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