SOURCE: NBC NEWS BY FRANCES KAI-HWA WANG The Grateful Crane Ensemble’s year was supposed to be quieter. After a decade and a half entertaining Japanese-American elders, the nonprofit theater group hadn’t planned anything special for their 15th anniversary in 2016. But after the election and talk from some of using Japanese-American incarceration as “precedent” for policies targeting Muslims, … Continued
SOURCE: AMERICAN THEATRE BY YUSSEF EL GUINDI When it comes to countering the implicit, and sometimes explicit, prejudices that the larger society exhibits toward Arabs and Muslims, American theatres are not particularly ahead of the curve. While some theatres have bravely and commendably gone out of their way to address the deluge of negativity the mainstream culture exhibits … Continued
Source: Oregon Artswatch Scott Palmer was stuck. The Bag & Baggage Productions artistic director had just auctioned off the choice of its annual summer Shakespeare production to a patron, and this year’s choice was… Romeo and Juliet. Palmer silently groaned. They’d staged the popular perennial ten years earlier and Palmer, an expert on the Bard of Avon’s work, … Continued
Voices From a Changing Middle East: Ahmad Kamal as Samer and Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan in “The Return” at Mosaic Theater Company. (photo: Stan Barouh) By: Nelson Pressley- Theater critic Source: The Washington Post It took Mosaic Theater Company no time to forge a social justice identitybeyond the Jewish lens of Theater J, where Mosaic Artistic … Continued
“The Profane” by Zayd Dohrn at Playwrights Horizons. Pictured: Ali Reza Farahnakian, Francis Benhamou, Babak Tafti, Tala Ashe, and Heather Raffo. (Photo by Joan Marcus) BY: ALLISON CONSIDINE SOURCE: AMERICAN THEATRE Members of the Middle Eastern-American theatre community took to the internet last week to express growing concerns about the representation of Middle Eastern Americans … Continued
By: Mariam Nabbout Source: Stepfeed Few would have imagined that the words “Iraq war” and “musical comedy” would ever appear in the same sentence, but an off-Broadway revival set in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq has brought them together. Titled “Baghdaddy”, the show reflects on the numerous failures of the U.S. intelligence … Continued
BY CHRIS BOYD PECK The Daily Texan In the upcoming student play “A Singularity,” audiences will follow the story of a Syrian refugee trying to find her home and her identity as a woman, a refugee and an individual after losing everything to war. “A Singularity” is a student-written play by Carleigh Newland, Kelsey Linberg … Continued
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