‘The Chinese Lady’ and the Long Road Home
How Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Chinese Lady’ made it through 2 years of pandemic, protest, and anti-Asian hate to emerge as the nation’s most-produced and possibly most essential play.
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How Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Chinese Lady’ made it through 2 years of pandemic, protest, and anti-Asian hate to emerge as the nation’s most-produced and possibly most essential play.
A stage manager’s stopwatch keeps a COVID vigil, and a reader expresses skepticism about arts funding as a panacea.
The company has also postponed its annual Sarasota Improv Festival to next year.
The lineup features a range of contemporary works, including a Thomas Gibbons world premiere.
A quiet fixture of L.A.’s theatre scene, Ong wrote a wide variety of plays and showed up to support even more.
An account of the toll of #MeToo reporting, and a report on new-play cross-pollination.
NNPN goes beyond the rolling world premiere model to cross-pollinate new work across 3 cities.
Among the honorees are Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, who was recognized for political theatre, as well as Collaboration Fund recipients and producers in residence.
The Philadelphia theatre will produce new plays by Josh Wilder and Gabriel Jason Dean.
The initiative will support an exchange of playwrights and their plays at multiple theatres.