Los Angeles Theatre, Let’s Talk About Palestine

July 7, 2025July 8, 2025 Edward Hong

To the Los Angeles theatre community, I love you and I adore you. I’ve been part of you for the past 15 years and despite the many challenges I have come across when it comes to meaningful representation and opportunities, I will always cherish the countless memories we have experienced and will continue to experience together as an artist and as a critic. But I think it’s time we desperately need to talk about the one subject that you have been avoiding for so long — Palestine.

Reviews, Theatre

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Handala’

June 23, 2024June 23, 2024 Edward Hong

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.

Scholarship, Theatre

‘Handala: A Celebration of Palestine’ to Premiere at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival

May 16, 2024May 16, 2024 Edward Hong

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.