Early 1998

June 1998

• Another look at Vincent Chin...
  Carry the Tiger to the Mountain is an epic dramatization of the true life story of the victim's mother, Lily Chin, and her journey from postwar picture bride to civil rights activist in search of justice for her son.
• NWAAT presents All One Tribe
  Northwest Asian American Theatre is pleased to present "All One Tribe," a dance production that explores cross-cultural similarities among native Asian, African, Native American, and Pacific Islander cultures July 10, 11, 12 at the Theatre Off Jackson (409-7th Ave S, located in Seattle's International District)....
• New American opera based on Mao...
  FRANKLIN FURNACE at PSEUDO PROGRAMS, INC. presents
  MAO ZEDONG: JEALOUS SON
  by Alvin Eng & Yoav Gal...
• Great Leap celebrates 20th Anniversary...
• NWAAT announces first national conference for Asian American theatre in Spring, 1999...
  The Northwest Asian American Theatre has been awarded a major grant from the Ford Foundation to coordinate the first national conference of Asian American theatres. This conference is to discuss issues of importance to the more than 50 Asian American performing groups across the country with the emphasis is to be on issues and collaborations. The conference will be in Seattle, WA, in May 1999. More details to come.
• AAWW (NY) Presents Alec Mapa's I Remember Mapa...
• Treasure in the House seeks assistant director...
  "TREASURE IN THE HOUSE" is looking for an Assistant Project Director to help with the production of the Asian Pacific American Performance and Visual Art festival presented each fall at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California...
• Televised Tony Awards synopsis of Golden Child...
  While David Henry Hwang's Golden Child did not win a Tony at this year's awards, viewers nationwide were treated to the talents of Julyana Soelistyo (nominated for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Play), who performed an original synopsis of the play, de-aging from age 80 to age 10 with a shrug of the shoulders. Synopsis reprinted by permission of the author.
• East West Players to offer intensive workshop
  The nation's oldest Asian American theatre offers six-week intensive acting workshop...
• Golden Child closes May 31
  Despite gathering three Tony nominations (including one for Best Play), David Henry Hwang's latest play closed May 31 after only some 90-odd performances, just one week short of the announcement of the Tony Awards. While the play garnered glowing reviews from the Village Voice, the NY Post and many other publications, box office for the show was extremely anemic, despite offering the most affordable average ticket price on Broadway (just over $20).
• Canadian theatre world recognizes Asian artists...
  Artist Jean Yoon was one of many Asian Canadian artists recognized lately...
• East West Players celebrates 32nd anniversary
  East West Players, the nation's first and foremost Asian American theatre company celebrates its 32nd Anniversary Awards Dinner on June 22, 1998, at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles....
• Peeling the Banana to benefit South Asians
  The Manhattan premiere of the collaboration between NYC's only South Asian youth agency and Peeling the Banana, NYC's one-of-a-kind pan-Asian American theater troupe, will reveal it all to you Off-Broadway at The Joseph Papp Public Theatre on Tuesday June 23rd. All proceeds will benefit SAYA's youth center in Elmhurst, Queens.

May 1998

• AATC presents Mifune and Me...
  Critically acclaimed playwright and performer Lane Nishikawa presents Mifune and Me, a one man show about Asian American images in the media
• Slant news!
  For more details, you can head directly to them at http://www.abcflash.com/arts/slant/slant2.htm
• Golden Child receives three Tony nominations:
  David Henry Hwang's newest play receives three Tony Award nominations. Given out to the best in Broadway productions, the nominations were for Best Play (main rivals are Beauty Queen of Leeane and Art), Best Costuming and Best Actress in a Featured Role (Julyana Soelistyo). This is Hwang's second Tony nomination (his first was, of course, M. Butterfly). The Tonys will be awarded June 7.
• East West premieres new musical:
  Directed by Glen Chin, HEADING EAST: THE MUSICAL is a funny, slightly off beat musical about a family retracing its footsteps from 1848 to the present...
• TnT Presents Pinoys Talk, Too
• AATC (SF) Presents 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors
  AA Comedy runs amok...
• AATC presents Canyon Sam's Capacity to Enter
  Solo performance piece...
• A Not Quite 20th Anniversary Production of F.O.B. May 14-16

Northwest Asian American Theatre Kicks 25th Anniversary Celebration:

• NWAAT Opens Momoko Iko's Gold Watch on May 7 to June 7
  NWAAT revives this classic of Asian American Theatre
• Asian Management Business Association Sponsors an Evening with Artistic Director Chil Kong on May 8
• NWAAT Adds Pork Filled Players
  as Late Night Resident Comedy Troupe
• NWAAT Announces 25th Anniversary Dinner
  with Encore performance of its first show, Marginal Man, with original cast

April 1998

• Seattle's Freehold offers acting scholarships...
• Peeling the Banana appears on NY's Second Stage....
• AATC Opens 25th Anniversary with revival of Chin's landmark TheChickencoop Chinaman
• David Henry Hwang's Golden Child hits New York...
  Critical reaction is mixed, but...
• Golden Child snags three Outer Critics Circle nominations.
  Not bad.
• Stir Friday Night opens new show, Lo Mein on the Totem Pole
  Lo Mein is coming to Piper's Alley for Asian American Heritage Month...
• Casting Call for Gus Lee's China Boy...
• Congratulations!
  To ReAct (Seattle), whose multi-cultural version of David Ives' All In the Timing won a Best of the Fest at Seattle's recent Fringe Theatre Festival, topping over 90 other entries...
• East West extends Pacific Overtures to May 3!
  Due to popular demand....

March 1998

• Oscar News!
  Asian American filmaker and Asian American playwright wins Oscar!
• Northwest Asian American Theatre hires new Artistic Director
  Late word is that NWAAT (Seattle) has hired Chilson Kong as its new Artistic Director.
• Tidbit!
  Amy Hill has joined the all star cast (Helen Hunt, etc.) of 12th Night which will be playing at the Lincoln Center in July.
• Tidbit!
  Talia Shire (Rocky, etc.) has signed on as a producer for David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, slated to open April 2 on Broadway.
• Philip Kan Gotanda News
  Seattle connection and new play....
• AATC presents I Remember Mapa
  Asian American Theater Company, in association with the Mark Taper Forum's Asian Theater Workshop, presents the Northern California premiere of I Remember Mapa...
• AA film from Peeling the Banana artists...
• Ma-Yi Theatre invited to Philipines
  Ma-Yi Theatre has been invited to participate in the Philippine Centennial Arts Festival to be held at the Cultural Center in Manila, Philippines from June 1 to June 14, 1998....
• E Na Na I Ke Kumu (Look to the Source) premieres in LA
  Through the use of hula, theater and performance art, E Nana I Ke Kumu: Look to the Source, written and performed by Leilani Chan, exposes...
• Free workshops from TnT (SF)
  Teatro ng Tanan commemorates the centennial anniversary of the Philippine Revolution through...
• East West Players dodges El Nino, opens DHH Theatre
• Pan Asian opens new Ed Sakamoto play
  Pan Asian Repertory Theatre renews its longtime association with award winning playwright Edward Sakamoto...
• Peeling the Banana is back!
  The last time you saw Peeling the Banana, you might remember that there were...
• AATC presents reading of new play...
  Asian American Theater Company presents the first reading of a new play titled The Clouds, the Ocean and Everything in Between ...

February 1998

• Casting call for two Asian American companies:
  Emerald Rain Productions (LA)
  Asian Story Theatre (San Diego)
• San Diego AA Rep extends Cultural Hyphen
• East West Players returns from the brink!
  Just six or seven months ago, East West Players, the nation's oldest Asian American theatre, was in frail economic health...
• David Henry Hwang's Golden Child opens in SF (for more information on this ACT production, see http://www.act-sfbay.org) and opens its own website (http://www.goldenchild.com), one of the first Broadway shows to use the net to promote itself before opening.
• Bonus! Photo coverage of Golden Child!
• Also! Read the Revue's review of the show!
• Asian American film nominated for Oscar.
• Japanese American One Woman Show: From family to Star Trek
  Love.  War.  Loss.  Discovery.  Actress/Writer/Producer Cynthia Gates Fujikawa's one-woman show OLD MAN RIVER running through March 1st at Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. West, in Los Angeles ...
  

January 1998

• NWAAT seeks Biz Manager
  The Northwest Asian American Theatre (NWAAT) announces a nation-wide search for a new Business Manager following the departure of Managing Director Kathy Hsieh...
• THICKER THAN WATER- a new musical
  Inspire Entertainment will be holding audtions for a new musical, Thicker Than Water, on February 7,8,15,&16. The show will debut May 27th @ UCLA's Royce Hall, a 2000+ seat auditorium with tour in the making. We are looking for Actors, Singers, Dancers, and Musicians. Please prepare song (with sheet music/tape), short monologue, and/or routine. All ages. Please call 888 855-1577 for appointment. Asian Americans especially welcome.
• TnT Calls for submission for festival
  Teatro ng Tanan (TnT) is now accepting monologues, dialogues, and short plays for its 1998 new works festival^ flipsights ^-98.
• FREE! Amy Hill's Tokyo Bound!
• Teatro Ng Tanan offers Bay Area classes
• David Henry Hwang's Golden Child hits Singapore en route to Broadway
  Early reviews quite favorable; producer to set up web site in early February...
• Early Asian American activist art group holds reunion concert
  A Grain of Sand? Wow! That takes the Revue wayyyy back...
• Wynton Marsalis collaborates, benefits Zhongmei Dance Company
• SLANT opens new show
  The Slant Performance Group will be world premiering its brand new show- "Squeal Like a Pig, an Intergalactic PopOperetta," at the La Mama First Floor Theater, January 1st-18th, 1998.
• AATC offers classes in Bay Area
  To continue fostering new talent in Asian Pacific American arts, the Asian American Theater Company is offering the following classes for it's Winter Series...

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