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The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical by Saundra Mitchell with Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin, and Matthew Sklar [in Booklist]

31 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Drama/Theater, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Two star-crossed seniors just want to dance together at prom. Emma lives with her grandmother since her parents rejected her when she came out, but the bullying at school has never stopped. She and student council president Alyssa are in love, but Alyssa’s fear of...

Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins by Kathleen Collins [in Booklist]

03 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Drama/Theater, Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Short Stories

*STARRED REVIEW In 2014, a quarter-century after the 1988 death of filmmaker/playwright/writer/activist Kathleen Collins at 46 of breast cancer, indie distributor Milestone Films reintroduced her groundbreaking 1982 movie, Losing Ground, one of the first films written and directed by an African American woman, inspiring new interest in the...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: A Play by David Hare, adapted from the book by Katherine Boo

14 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Drama/Theater, Indian, Nonfiction, South Asian

When Pulitzer-ed MacArthur 'Genius' Katherine Boo's first (and thus far only) book debuted in January 2012, I predicted it would be found alongside the nominees/finalists for all the Very Important Literary Prizes that year – indeed, among many, many honors, Boo won the 2012 National Book Award for Nonfiction. What...

The Year of the Baby and The Year of the Fortune Cookie by Andrea Cheng, illustrated by Patrice Barton

01 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Drama/Theater, Middle Grade Readers

When I read Andrea Cheng's The Year of the Book almost two years ago, I had no clue it would turn out to be a series! Such staying power bodes well that later printings of Book have been fully corrected; click on The Year of the Book post for...

The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical by Warren Hoffman [in Library Journal]

06 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Chinese American, Drama/Theater, Jewish, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonfiction, Repost

Theater producer/critic/playwright Warren Hoffman (The Passing Game) insists that audiences have been "duped" into believing that the Broadway musical "is the most innocent of art forms when, in fact, it is one of America's most powerful, influential, and even at times polemical arts precisely because...

Drama by Raina Telgemeier, with color by Gurihiru

31 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Drama/Theater, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Just so you have a little warning, tomorrow (September 1) is #DRAMADAY. That means veteran comics-maker Raina Telgemeier's latest book hits shelves tomorrow ...

Asian American Plays for a New Generation edited by Josephine Lee, Don Eitel, and R.A. Shiomi

27 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Pan-Asian Pacific American

This is not your parents' (or your grandparents') Asian American theater. That I can even say that is proof of massive progress. What a difference a few decades makes ...

Migritude by Shailja Patel

26 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Indian African, Indian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry, South Asian American

Given the sheer number of books that arrive in the mailbox, I rarely pick up a title and start reading immediately. But something about Migritude (debuting from fabulous indie publisher Kaya Press: 'Smokin' Hot Books'!!) demanded 'read me NOW!' Once opened, I could hardly put...

I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World by Eve Ensler, foreword by Carol Gilligan

22 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult Readers

As the mother of a teenage girl (and too-soon-to-be-teenage son, too, egads!), I vacillate constantly between nervous fear and proud elation. My daughter is a miracle in so many ways ...

Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang, foreword by Frank Rich

02 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Chinese American, Drama/Theater

Surely, I have never been part of a more raucous audience than when I saw David Henry Hwang's latest play, Yellow Face, at New York's Public Theater in December 2007. The man at the end of the row in front of us LITERALLY FELL OUT...

The Silence of God and Other Plays by Catherine Filloux

23 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Cambodian, Drama/Theater, Jewish, Nonethnic-specific, Southeast Asian, Turkish

Playwright Catherine (pronounced Ka-treen) Filloux has built her dramatic reputation on giving voice to lost, overlooked souls. In Lemkin's House, Filloux presents the struggle of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish American lawyer whom she refers to as her "historical soulmate," a man who coined the term "genocide"...

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays by Young Jean Lee

15 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Drama/Theater, Korean American

Young Jean Lee has made quite the career of being the bad-child darling of the theater world. Founder and director of her very own Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Lee never hesitates in making her audiences squirm. No one is safe on her stage, including...

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature edited by J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Fiction, Japanese, Poetry, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

columbia-anthology-of-modern-japanese-literature Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945 Volume 2: From 1945 to the Present The two volumes together offer the most comprehensive overview of modern Japanese literature available in translation. Capturing the most turbulent period of Japan –...

Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (two volumes) edited by Samuel Leiter [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Pan-Asian, Repost

encyclopedia-of-asian-theatre You could build major muscles benching both volumes, but think of it as beefing up your theater knowledge way beyond New York’s Broadway (it ain’t called ‘The Great White Way’ for nothin’!). For both the theater...

A History of Asian American Theatre by Esther Kim Lee [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Korean American, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

history-of-asian-american-theatre Yes, it’s pricey, but if you ever wanted a one-stop primer on Asian American theater, this is definitely it. Besides, I – yes, me, yours truly, don’t be so surprised! – get a very sweet nod...

Savage Stage: Plays by Ma-Yi Theater Company edited by Joi Barrios-Leblanc [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

savage-stage This superb anthology offers nine challenging, unique, edgy voices, who were each chosen to be produced by one of the nation’s premier, most award-winning Asian American theater companies, the Ma-Yi Theater Company in New York City....

American Jewish Theater: Defining the Indefinable [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Jewish, Repost, Young Adult Readers

awakenine Awake and Singing: Six Great American Jewish Plays (new edition), edited and with an introduction by Ellen Schiff Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays, edited by Ellen Schiff and Michael Posnick, foreword by Theodore Bikel Ask the random person...

No More Cherry Blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays by Philip Kan Gotanda, foreword by Stephen Sumida [in AsianWeek]

08 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Japanese American, Repost

No More Cherry Blossoms Thrilling collection of four recent plays from one of my favorite playwrights: Sisters Matsumoto, The Wind Cries Mary, Ballad of Yachiyo, and Under the Rainbow which combines two playlets, Natalie Wood...

The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates + Author Interview [in American Theatre magazine]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Fiction, Jewish, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
Joyce Carol Oates’ Scariest People: The world premiere of The Tattooed Girl at Theater J “People think I’m prolific,” laughs Joyce Carol Oates, “but actually I work long hours and I’m very patient and fastidious.”...

No More Cherry Blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays by Philip Kan Gotanda + Author Profile [in AsianWeek]

26 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Drama/Theater, Japanese American, Repost
The Philip Kan Gotanda Chronicles He captured early-20th-century Hawai‘i with his bittersweet tale of thwarted love in Ballad of Yachiyo. He was the first playwright to ever dramatize life immediately after...

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