7PM, TUES, 6/25 – Program A: LOST CHINATOWNS by Cynthia Ling Lee; THE ART OF FLY SWATTING by Yoshikawa Ken (Ken Yoshikawa) Lost Chinatowns is a solo dance-theater work that explores the destruction, lost vibrancy, and historical erasure of Santa Cruz’s Chinatowns from 1860-1955. Santa Cruz, now known for being the ultra-liberal “leftmost” city of […]
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The Brothers Paranormal, by Prince Gomolvilas
The Brothers Paranormaltells the story of two Thai-American brothers who launch a ghost-hunting business in order to capitalize on the nationwide increase in sightings of Asian-looking ghosts. When the siblings end up investigating the home of an African American couple who claim to be haunted by one very terrifying spirit, everyone’s notions of reality, fantasy, […]
Join CAATA in Ashland, OR June 29 and 30 for a Regional NW Gathering
CAATA is organizing a regional gathering of Asian American theatre artists in the Pacific Northwest, with our partners at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival! Gather in in Ashland, OR for Cultural Connections at OSF, a two day event featuring talks with OSF’s head of the Literary Deparment, Amrita Ramanan, plus tickets to three of the shows with strong Asian […]
Work With CAATA: Part-Time Executive Director.
Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists (CAATA) seeks to hire its first-ever Part-Time Executive Director to lead the organization into an exciting new chapter of service to a diverse network of Pan Asian American theater artists across the country. This new position will work in collaboration with a dynamic board of directors and be […]
Small Journeys Before the Unbreakable Dawn
Dawn is about to break over a sleepy city, but bakers, drinkers, parents, and pigeons are already on the go, also a hungry rabbit that lives on the moon. Lives, green and mature, human and animal, weave and wobble on their ways. Small Journeys Before the Unbreakable Dawnis a surreal kaleidoscope of life in the […]
Represent! 2019
Hansberry Project, eSe Teatro, SIS Productions and Pratidhwani present Represent! A Multicultural Playwrights Festival – workshops and staged readings of four new plays by playwrights of color from artistic communities represented by the producing companies. SCHEDULE: Local Playwrights Showcase March 31, 2019. 4:00 PM Pratidhwani Presents IN BRAUNAU by Dipika Guha March 31, 2019. 7:30 […]
I Wanna [email protected]#$ Like Romeo & Juliet
Winner of the 2019/20 New Light New Voices Award, by New York based playwright Andrew Rincón. ABOUT THE PLAY: The world is thrown into chaos as Cupid rips off her wings and gives up on love. But Saint Valentine has a plan to bring her spirits back up; and it involves mending the relationship between […]
Preserving Our History: Digitizing NWAAT Productions
CAATA Secretary Roger Tang and CAATA member Kathy Hsieh spoke to the Northwest Asian Weekly about the Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS), who are digitizing recordings from the Northwest Asian American Theatre (NWAAT) from the 1980s and 90s. Hsieh was Managing Director for much of the time that is being revived from VHS archives, […]
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#//EMBEDDED//# is a multimedia piece of devised theatre that examines the condition of a trapped virtual identity through the lens of a cyber celebrity stuck within the regulating algorithms of a social media platform, inside a broadcasting room floating somewhere in the inter-webs of cyber space and time. An introspection on notions of identity and image, reality […]
MIPoPS, Wing Luke Museum to Preserve Asian American Theater History
Around 100 performances will be digitized and made available to the public – Seattle’s Northwest Asian American Theatre was one of a small handful of national theaters dedicated to exploring the Asian American experience Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS) and the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience have begun work […]