Join Theater Mu and Minnesota Opera for a discussion about the presentation of traditional operatic repertoire and the commissioning of new work, which hopes to expand representation and audience engagement through the resetting and rewriting operas in order to change racist narratives and increase Asian representation within the field of opera.
Read MoreMixed Blood Theatre presents the world premiere of INTERSTATE, a Queer Asian American pop-rock musical about two trans people at different stages of their journeys, navigating love, family, masculinity, and finding community in the era of social media.
Read MoreThe writing team of Tidtaya Sinutoke (music) and Isabella Dawis (book & lyrics) have won the 14th Annual Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award for their new musical, HALF THE SKY. HALF THE SKY was an inaugural 2019 First Draft Commission by the 5th Avenue Theatre, with additional development at Theater Mu's New Eyes Festival and Theater Latté Da's NEXT Festival.
Read MoreFrom the outside, the 2010s in Twin Cities theater haven’t seen any changes as visible as the Guthrie’s 2006 move to its big blue riverfront home. The view from theaters’ seats, though, has changed significantly—a result of even more dramatic shifts behind the scenes.
Read More“She wanted me to be like”—and here Ricamora slants his eyes, sticks out his front teeth, and chortles, “Oh ho ho ho.” As a college graduate without any formal theatre training, he got his introduction to acting via that Anything Goes. He says now it felt “icky, but I wanted to be able to keep doing the show and I fucking did it. And still to this day I feel terrible that I did it.”
Read MoreJoy, a Filipino American student at the University of California, Berkeley, wishes on a shooting star for supportive white parents when she feels pushed to the limit. “A lot of people don’t understand the weight or the debt we have to our parents. They don’t understand why it’s hard for us to live our own lives,” says playwright Joy Regullano
Read MoreLauren Yee makes her debut not only on American Theatre Magazine’s Top 20 but on their Top 10 Most Produced Plays list with not one but two titles: The Great Leap and Cambodian Rock Band.
Read More“It's also a great way for Filipino-Americans to have representation in America right now because I didn't have that sh*t growing up,” Eva says, “For me, it was finally a chance, where I felt like this made sense. This is my story, this is the girl next door's story. This is the girl in the Philippines' story. This is a Filipino story.”
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