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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Anime Expo 2024 is starting tomorrow at the Los Angeles Convention Center and we are excited beyond belief to get this party started. This year’s lineup includes exclusive premieres, celebrations, panels, talent appearances and more, along with Industry and Guests of Honor such as Ryōko Kui, the creator of Delicious in Dungeon, mecha visionary Shōji Kawamori, Persona 3/4/5 director Katsura Hashino and Studio Ghibli’s Yoichi Nishikawa.
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CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) is coming to Anime Expo this Friday! Join them for their conversation on AAPI’s Impact in Entertainment where they feature Ultraman: Rising Co-Director John Aoshima, Stunt Performer Pingi Moli (Hobbs & Shaw; Rebel Moon), Writer Prathi Srinivasan (Titans, Plan B), and Shōgun actor Toshi Toda! The panel will be moderated by CAPE’s Executive Director Michelle Sugihara.
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There is a sense of tragedy to acknowledge that whenever there is progress made with any given historically underrepresented community in the United States, history always finds a way to repeat itself. Are we doomed to keep repeating that cycle? Such is the question presented in the East West Players production of Unbroken Blossoms, a world premiere play written by Philip W. Chung and directed by Jeff Liu.
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The Geffen Playhouse production of Tiny Father is an interesting play as it boasts an impressive array of talent with the playwright Mike Lew and his frequent theatre director collaborator & Tony Award-nominated Moritz von Stuelpnagel.
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I’m going to cut to the chase but Handala, a 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival scholarship recipient, may be one of the most important theatre works of our generation. This solo performance show is not only a celebration of Palestine but it does something that is so badly needed right now: to give humanity and soul to the Palestinian people while loudly declaring that there must be freedom and liberation.
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I’m always wary when there’s any production lauded with so much critical praise and attention that I lower my expectations significantly, especially when they come straight from Broadway (I can’t help it, I’m fiercely proud of my local Los Angeles theatre community and the talents they offer).
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I want to say this right from the start that I am not a particular fan of the solo performance format whatsoever as most of them tend to overly indulge in the identity aspect without any ounce of humor or ability to tell a story. Yet I understand the need for such a format because it is the simplest and easiest format to mount in the theatre world while still being able to showcase an actor’s ability.
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Tonight is the season finale for the The Sympathizer, an HBO television series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. This is without a doubt not only a historic achievement in Vietnamese American storytelling but it also marks the first time an all-Vietnamese loop group has ever been utilized in Hollywood. This article is dedicated to them.
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Fostering and nurturing diverse voices in the arts in a meaningful way is still difficult to come by so when I see initiatives that does just that in a grand manner, I take notice. One particular initiative is from artEquity as they have invited over 100 Black playwrights from across the US to come together on Juneteenth in Los Angeles.
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I’ve done press coverage for the Hollywood Fringe Festival in the past before but rarely do I do press releases for upcoming performances. With Handala, an exception had to be made because not only is it a much needed celebration of Palestine but it is also a 2024 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship recipient that signifies the program’s goal of expanding and diversifying the body of work being presented at Fringe.
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There’s always been a persistent belief that if you want to watch good theatre, it’s all in New York. This particular narrow-minded belief has always been annoying to me because Los Angeles is a unique entity that is thoroughly distinct in all its rich and fantastic ways with so many astounding global majority talent to tell its stories. Such was on my mind after watching American Mariachi at the Latino Theater Company, the second out of the three consecutive plays the company is launching for their 2024 season.
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Josephine Chang and I will be covering this year’s Anime Expo and to start it off, we’ll be sharing a ton of press releases for all the exciting events and guests that will be coming! Yesterday, AX announced the attendance of Ryoko Kui, the creator of the hit manga series Delicious in Dungeon as a guest of honor. Check out the press release after the jump!
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You can consider yourself fortunate when you watch good theatre that has meaningful diversity. But it’s not often that you come across a piece that enthralls you completely from beginning to end that when it’s over, you immediately wish for it to be seen all over the country, in both big and small theatres alike.
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Nielsen — a global leader in audience measurement, data, and analytics — has released their latest Diverse Intelligence Series report to kick-off Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The report titled, Reaching Asian American Audiences: Understanding Asian Influence and Media Consumption, highlights that Asian Americans are spending nearly equal time watching content on their TVs and smartphones. Check it out after the jump!
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Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment bring the first-ever film installment from the fan-favorite SPY x FAMILY franchise to the United States and Canada through an all-new original adventure in theaters now!
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Visual Communications (VC) has announced a new Special Presentation program is being added to the VC FILM FEST lineup: the Los Angeles Premiere of the Narrative Feature DÌDI (弟弟). Directed by Sean Wang, the narrative feature follows an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy who learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. The film, which made its world premiere at Sundance, will be Wang’s fourth film at the fest.
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L.A. Theatre Works has released an audio theater recording of Innocent When You Dream by Ken Narasaki. The newest addition to the company’s Civil Liberties podcast series, Innocent When You Dream is now available for digital download for $4.99 at latw.org.
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My biggest and most immediate takeaway after watching the world premiere of Kairos at East West Players is that I wish more stories were told in this particular manner, despite the genre or the size of the cast.
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It is always a pleasure to review any productions at A Noise Within because more often than not, they constantly deliver bold works of art from all aspects in the creative department. This is to be the case once again for King Hedley II, an incredible rendition of August Wilson’s ninth play in his ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle series.
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Latino Theater Company and Playwrights’ Arena present the world premiere of an epic World War II odyssey inspired by an astonishing, little-known true story.
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Los Angeles theater survives and thrives on community collaboration now more than ever. In conjunction with AAPI Heritage Month, Chalk Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of PANG SPA directed by Reena Dutt in collaboration with EST/LA’s world premiere production of TWO STOP directed by Tracey A. Leigh.
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I’m not exactly the biggest fan of Shakespeare so for me to go out of my way to review a Shakespeare play absolutely requires that it has a meaningful diverse cast with global majority actors in significant parts (with the director preferably being global majority as well).
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