I applaud A Noise Within‘s passionate commitment to put up all ten of August Wilson‘s The Pittsburgh Cycle plays and as someone deeply invested in global majority representation in Los Angeles theatre, I want to be there in watching all of them even though I am starting to notice the aging cracks in his plays which I’ll get more into later.
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The Green Day album American Idiot was one of the most influential rock albums that affected our lives in ways too numerous to count. Considering the album structure, it also wasn’t a surprise that it easily converted into a musical that has been a riveting Tony and GRAMMY award-winning success since 2009.
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It’s odd to say when you look forward to a theatre project’s journey but that is exactly the case with the world premiere of Luzmi by Diana Burbano, performing at The Rosenthal Theater at Inner-City Arts in Los Angeles.
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Imagine Theatre in partnership with The Colony Theatre presents a world premiere, family-friendly theatrical experience inspired by a Khoisan myth. An original commission by Imagine Theatre, The Girl Who Made the Milky Way is written by acclaimed playwright June Carryl and directed by Imagine artistic director Armina LaManna.
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In what may be one of the most exciting and ambitious endeavors I’ve ever seen from the Latino Theater Company, nineteen theater companies (including their own) and 165 artists from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico will be coming to downtown L.A. during a three-week national theater festival of dynamic, contemporary Latiné theater. Latino Theater Company presents Encuentro 2024: We Are Here – Presente!, at The Los Angeles Theatre Center from October 24 through November 10.
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The second season of the smash hit live-action adaptation of One Piece can’t come any faster and Jeff Ward, who plays fan-favorite villain ‘Buggy,’ gives us a sneak peek behind the curtain on season 2 filming by taking fans on an exciting behind-the-scenes tour of production.
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This is a relatively unknown fact but beloved and renowned late actor Alan Rickman was a co-editor and director to My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a powerful play based on the diaries and emails of activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israeli soldier when she was aged 23.
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In what may be a first for me reviewing Los Angeles theatre is reviewing a dance performance or in this case with The 7 Fingers (also known as Les 7 doigts de la main), a circus troupe that makes their Center Theatre Group debut with Duel Reality, their acrobatic tour-de-force for all ages inspired by the star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet. Fusing circus, theatre, illusion, music, and dance, the show was an utterly delightful and breathtaking work of art that cannot be missed with the “cast” that’s mostly comprised of artists of global majority.
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For one night only on September 28 at The Ford, Blue13 will be having an extraordinary dance performance that blends contemporary and traditional dance forms with everything from hip-hop to Bollywood and ballet, challenging perceptions of South Asian American dance.
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It’s not often I encounter a play that clocks in at over three hours and when I do, it better be gosh darn worth it with the play’s writing, acting, and directing at the top of its game. Fortunately, the new Pasadena Playhouse production of Cyrano de Bergerac (by Edmond Rostand and freely adapted by Martin Crimp) directed by Mike Donahue earns its long stay by imbuing you with such crackling energy and wit that burns all the way through, never leaving you bored or restless.
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Launching the new 2024-25 “True Grit” season at A Noise Within, co-artistic directors Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott co-direct The Skin of Our Teeth, the 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning, time-bending comic romp by Thornton Wilder.
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This may be very inside theatre knowledge but there hasn’t really been an Asian American family play that fully utilizes multiple family members throughout different generations quite like Nicholas Pilapil‘s God Will Do The Rest, now having its world premiere directed by Fran De Leon in a co-joint Artists at Play and Latino Theater Company production.
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Geffen Playhouse today announced its selection of LA-based writers to participate in the 2024/2025 cycle of The Writers’ Room, a forum for engagement and collaboration between Los Angeles playwrights. The participants are Sunny Drake, Keiko Green, Andrew Zepeda Klein, maatin, Samah Meghjee, and James Anthony Tyler. There are some serious global majority representation in this writers’ group so we can’t wait to see their work in the coming years! Read on to learn more about them.
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This will be my first time reviewing a production of Rogue Artists Ensemble and in advance, I was told to expect “hyper-theater,” a form of theater that utilizes original, immersive, multi-dimensional experiences to tell their stories. With the partnership of Los Angeles LGBT Center, Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular certainly lived up to this art form while also being a fascinating play that is all parts ambitious, messy as hell, unapologetic, and heartfelt.
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With The Brothers Size now performing at the Geffen Playhouse, this production kicks off the inaugural season of Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney whose play (that he also wrote) currently celebrates its 20th anniversary in the intimate Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater.
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On October 21, 2024, entertwine will hold its third annual international Horror Film Festival for women of color at Vidiots in Eagle Rock, CA. Considering that the horror genre is overly saturated with cis-hetero white men, I find incredible promise in such a festival like this and while it’s only in their third year, the festival is a tremendous necessity.
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I was today’s years old in learning that the staged version of the cult classic 1985 movie Clue has only really been around for seven years or so as the ridiculously over the top film seemed like the perfect material to be adapted into stage well before that.
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East West Players, in partnership with AJ Rafael, is thrilled to announce the return of Crazy Talented Asians. This variety benefit show will take place on Saturday, August 17, 2024, at East West Players’ David Henry Hwang Theater, just in time for Nisei Week and the 140th Anniversary of Little Tokyo, as well as the arrival of the theatre’s new artistic director Lily Tung Crystal. There’s going to be a (apologies in advance) craaaazy amount of talented Asians so definitely don’t miss out on this event!
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When I was first informed that the world premiere of Open Fist Theatre Company‘s The Bauhaus Project would consist of two parts that would total a span of almost four hours, ambitious was the first word I had in mind, particularly for a 99-seat theatre company.
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On July 20 and 21, Golden Thread Productions will present an incredible 24-hour online event featuring 100+ global artists & activists with back-to-back presentations, performances, and discussions building solidarity in the global movement for a free Palestine.
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During their Anime Expo 2024 panel, Spike Chunsoft, Inc. announced the release of the heartwarming summer holiday adventure Natsu-Mon: 20th Century Summer Kid. The game will be released exclusively as a digital download for Nintendo Switch and Steam in North America and Europe on August 6, 2024.
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Fresh off their very first Anime Expo attendance this year, Nexon Korea Corp.‘s Blue Archive just concluded their panel and with it comes the exciting news and details about their beloved mobile RPG’s summer update.
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For all you fans of the Guilty Gear fighting game series, Arc System Works America, Inc., in partnership with Sanzigen Studios, revealed at Anime Expo 2024 today the synopsis, main cast, and teaser trailer for the upcoming “GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS” anime series, premiering in 2025!
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