Maps of City & Body: Shedding Light on the Performances of Denise Uyehara | script and commentary by Denise Uyehara, foreword by Chay Yew [in AsianWeek]
30 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Japanese American, Repost
This is one of those perfectly sized, well-designed books that add that something extra to an already enlightening reading experience. Perhaps the most powerful section of Uyehara’s slim volume is...
Listening to the Voices on the Street: A Profile of Performance Artist & Novelist Heather Woodbury
What would eventually become What Ever: A Living Novel first began as a behemoth dare. In 1994, Heather Woodbury, a performance...
A look at what means to be “American” through the lens of theater and performance art.
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While Mishima’s fiction (not to mention his flamboyant life) is internationally renowned, his dramas are virtually unknown in the West, although he published more than 60 plays. This collection includes five of...
Memorable volume of collected plays by one of the most hard-working, prolific, talented, tenacious – not to mention incredibly charming – playwrights of our generation: Red, Scissors, A Beautiful Country, and Wonderland.
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Often hilarious, surprisingly poignant play which looks at the life and works of the all-too-often caricatured Yoko Ono, perhaps the more talented (gasp! dare we say that?) of the Lennon-Ono duo.
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First-ever, encyclopedic summary of APA playwrights’ lives and works. Exceptionally thorough resource.
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Flower Power
Ask any Asian American familiar with musicals, and they’ll probably be able to sing “I Enjoy Being a Girl," recalling endless images of mirror-cloned Nancy Kwans. Like it or not, as...
This welcome collection offers a look at some of the later works of the prolific 17th-century Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), still considered to be Japan’s most famous playwright.
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Extensive poetry, prose, drama, and photos that capture the gay APA experience.
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A collection of short stories, poetry, and play excerpts from both established and new Asian American writers, about growing up Asian American. Caught between two cultures, the young voices of this collection ask,...
A rich collection of stories, plays, and memoir that span over 35 years by one of the pioneer voices of Asian America. Yamauchi is best known for her...
An anthology of four plays by three Asian American women playwrights: 12-1-A by Wakako Yamauchi, 
A collection of four plays by premiere Japanese American playwright 
Two plays by pioneer 
An anthology of diverse plays by six Asian American women playwrights: 
In this parody of the hard-boiled detective genre, Sam Shikaze (of the Sam Spade school) is a Japanese American private detective hired to find the missing Cherry Blossom Queen. In the process, he meets...
Two important plays on the Asian American experience: Paper Angels, a groundbreaking one-act play about Chinese immigrants detained on the West Coast immigration center, Angel Island, debuted in 1980 and was produced by American...
A collection of six plays by groundbreaking Asian American playwright, David Henry Hwang, including his much-produced contemporary classic, FOB, the gender-bender Broadway hit, M. Butterfly, and the Philip Glass collaboration, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.
Hwang was...
The first published anthology of plays by Asian American writers features six diverse plays: Nuit Blanche: A Select View of Earthlings by Ping Chong, The Wash by Philip Kan Gotanda, Tenement Lover: no palm...