December 2012

• Vancouver, BC: VACT presents Theory of Everything (posted 12/14/12)
• Seattle, WA: Pork Filled Players present a new Spam*O*Rama (posted 12/4/12)
• Tidbit!
  David Henry Hwang and Adrienne Kennedy are among the legit creatives to make the list of this year's recipients of the USA Fellowships from United States Artists, the nonprofit with a mission to support artists in multiple disciplines.
  Playwright Marcus Gardley, downtown choreographer-director Annie-B Parson, scribe-thesp-helmer Robbie McCauley and performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Pena and John Kelly also are among the stage artists to be named USA Fellows, which sees recipient receive $50,000 in unrestricted funds. USA awards a total of $2.5 million each year to a roster of 50 artists, with this year the number of creatives bumped up to 54 including collaborators. (posted 12/4/12)
  Hwang is having something of a valedictory year. He's currently the focus of a season-long slate of his work at Off Broadway's Signature Theater (where his 1996 outing "Golden Child" is now playing), and this fall he was awarded the Steinberg Playwright Award, which comes with a hefty check of $200,000.

November 2012

• New York, NY: Golden Child receives second extension at Signature Theatre (linked 11/10/12)
• San Diego, CA: George Takei musical, Allegiance, breaks box office records (linked 11/10/12)
• London, England: The Royal Shakespeare Company had its own Nightingale controversy with their casting of The Orphan of Zhao. Here is a statement from British East Asian actors (posted 11/10/12)
• Tidbit!
  Felix Racelis' one-act comedy, Forever Fog, has just been published in a Kindle edition, and his monologue Eleanor Triumphant is included in the recently published anthology interJACtions: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature (Vol. 2), in both Kindle and paperback editions.
  Please check out Felix's Amazon Author page.
• Los Angeles, CA: East West presents Tea, With Music (posted 11/10/12)

October 2012

• Seattle, WA, Azeotrope nabs four Gregory Awards (posted 10/30/12)
• New York, NY: 2g names new Artsitic Director (posted 10/26/12)
• Vancouver, BC: VACT presents MSG Lab (posted 10/26/12)
• Los Angeles, CA: East West presents Tea, With Music (posted 10/26/12)
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  Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua premieres new Sakamoto play, Fishing for Wives (posted 10/26/12)
• Tidbit:
  Toronto: fu-GEN announces that Ravi Jain is their 2012 Artist-in-Residence! Ravi is a Toronto-based theatre-maker, producer, educator, and arts-activist. Currently, he is Artistic Director of Why Not Theatre, which produces a wide range of acclaimed local and international shows, and just closed a double-header of plays featuring film star Naseeruddin Shah at Daniels Spectrum. Ravi is the recipient of the 2012 Pauline McGibbon Award, honouring his work as a theatre creator and activist. Selected acting and directing credits include Iceland (winner of the NOW Audience Choice Award at Summerworks 2012), Civility (workshop with Daniel Brooks), the Dora Award winning SPENT, A Brimful of Asha (remounting at Tarragon Theatre in November 2012), The Prince Hamlet (2007), Winter Soldiers (2008), Streetscape: Living Space (2008), Greenland (winner of the top two prizes SummerWorks 2009) and No Entry (2011).
  fu-GEN also announces their 10th Kitchen playwriting unit (K10) participants! Welcome Jenny Alexander, Qasim Khan, Gary Mok, Liam Morris and Vivian Or to the fu-GEN family. They continue our proud tradition of supporting emerging playwrights and navigating them through the minefield of play creation. The Kitchen has seen 62 writers through its doors in the last 10 years, and we¹ll be highlighting some of those works and artists throughout the season.
• Los Angeles, CA: Artists At Play premieres for LA Edith Can Shoot Things (posted 10/26/12)
• Los Angeles, CA: East West premieres Evoke(posted 10/7/12)
• Los Angeles, CA: Teada offering free Master Classes (posted 10/7/12)
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  Minneapolis, MN: Mu's Rick Shiomi wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ivey Awards (posted 10/3/12)
• Well, I almost forgot...
  
  Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas
  ed. by Esther Kim Lee • ISBN 978-0-8223-5274-7
  A welcome new addition to the Asian American theatre library, this collection focusses on Korean American writers, who now seem to be the artistic leaders of this generation of Asian American artists.
  This is an interesting collection, not only including the usual suspects like Julia Cho and Diana Son (who are represented by some offbeat but still appropriate selections), but including some criminally under-produced writers like Lloyd Suh and Sung Rno. The complete line up i
  Edward Bok Lee • History K
  Julia Cho • 99 Histories
  Lloyd Suh • American Hwangap
  Jean Yoon • Hongbu and Nolbu: The Tale of the Magic Pumpkins
  Sung Rno • Yi Counts to Thirteen
  Diana Son • Satellites
  Hyoung H. Park • Mina
  
• Los Angeles, CA: Ovation nominated Brahmin and the Tiger returns from hereandnow (posted 10/3/12)
• New York, NY: NY Actress Christine Toy Johnson to Receive Wai Look Award (posted 10/3/12)

September 2012

• Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua presents 2012 Playwriting contest (posted 9/24/12)
• Minneapolis, MN: Mu announces 2012-13 season (posted 9/24/12)
• Los Angeles, CA: Artists At Play presents LA premiere of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (posted 9/24/12)
• Los Angeles, CA: East West to host Nightingale discussion (posted 9/9/12)
• Vancouver, BC: VACT presents brink festival (posted 9/9/12)

August 2012

• New York, NY: David Henry Hwang wins Steinberg Award (posted 8/30/12)
• Los Angeles, CA: TeADA offers Fall classes (posted 8/30/12)
• Los Angeles, CA: East West offers fall playwriting classes (posted 8/30/12)
• Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua presents One Comedy of Erras (posted 8/20/12)
• Tidbit! Vancouver, BC
  Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre announces new board members:
  Tetsuro Shigematsu, President
  Tom Chin, Vice President
  Belle Cheung, Director
  Ray Hsu, Director
  Wilfred Victoria, Director
  Donna Yamamoto, Director
  Winnie Chan, Treasurer
  (posted 8/20/12)
• Los Angeles, CA: East West Players teams with Navarasa Dance Theatre for Encounter(posted 8/20/12)
• Seattle, WA: Pratidhwani presents The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) (posted 8/10/12)
• Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua presents Co-Lab Kaka'Ako (posted 8/10/12)
• San Diego, CA: La Jolla Playhouse (!) calls for Asian American actors (but no young Asian males---no doubt they'll make good use of Moroccan puppets). Posted 8/7/12
• Los Angeles, CA: East West remounts Three Years Swim Club (posted 8/6/12)
• Toronto, Canada: fu-GEN announces 10th Season! (posted 8/6/12)
• Tidbit!
  fu-GEN is a resident company of the new studio space at the Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre, opening in September 2012. The space is managed by Native Earth Performing Arts, and is shared with us, Cahoots Theatre, and Kaha:wi Dance Company. It is the first space of its kind in Toronto to be managed by culturally diverse artists.
• Tidbit!
  New anthology of Asian American short plays just published! Yellow Lens, edited by KS Stevens, is now available for purchase. Yellow Lens: Asian American Short Plays is an anthology of contemporary Asian American short plays. The plot for each short is rich and breaks apart stereotypes in the theatre. Not all characters are Asian American, but what makes the plays Asian American is the commitment to give each of her characters and the actors fresh voices that are not normally written for Asian American actors to perform. The characters and situations range from a teenage girl asking her grandmother (who collects cans for a living) for money to attend a concert, to two college students discussing the impact of recently having an abortion just weeks before they graduate from college, to a sorority pledge befriending a childhood friend. The plays include those that were in the original 2009 production, "The Relative," "Came To Believe," "Beauty and the Geek," "Twenty Dollars," "The Dinner Party," "The Breakup," as well as the bonus play "The Bonsai Tree."

July 2012

• Special Report from San Diego on La Jolla's The Nightingale (updated 7/24/12)
  
• Bay Area, CA: Bay Area Playwrights Festival features multiple Asian American playwrights (posted 7/23/12)
• Minneapolis, MN: Mu Performing Arts begins year long search to find the replacement for Artistic Director Rick Shiomi (posted 7/15/12).
• Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua represents Saturday Night At The Pahala Theatre(posted 7/15/12)
• Honolulu, HI: Kumu Kahua offers master class (posted 7/15/12)
• Tidbit!
  Diverse City Theater Company (³DCT²) today announced the addition of new members to its Board of Directors. Joining DCT are Dado Banatao, Managing Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital; Sheila Marcelo, Founder and CEO of Care.com; and Monica Alvarez-Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Pulse Creative (posted 7/15/12).