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 […]
Front Page
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, […]
#////#
#//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 […]
M. Butterly, by David Henry Hwang
By David Henry Hwang Directed by Samip Raval When we build fantasies to hide the truth, what happens when the walls come tumbling down? Clever parallels to the famous opera Madame Butterfly abound in this fearless play about a French diplomat who falls for a Chinese opera star – the ideal, exotic woman in his mind, […]
Our Perspective: Asian American Play Readings. Reading One
The Asian Pacific American (APA) population is seriously under represented on stage. “Our Perspective: Asian American Play Readings” is a staged play reading series intended to provide inspiration, space, and audiences for Midwest APA playwrights, directors, and actors. These are script-in-hand concert readings where actors read plays written and directed by Asian Americans. Presented by […]
2019 CAATA Executive Officer Appointments
After a landmark 2018 with a national conference and festival in Chicago, the launch of a new
membership program, and a coalition building effort with other national theaters of color, CAATA moves
into 2019 with a new slate of executive officers and eyes towards an exciting, yet-to-be announced
ConFest 2020.
The Emporer’s Nightengale
The Emperor’s Nightingale is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story The Nightingale, set in 18th-century China, and brings to light the youthful exploits of the future Emperor Qianlong. He befriends a magical bird who helps him learn what he must do to be King. The play employs traditional Chinese lion dance, puppetry, and a pair of […]