ALLEGIANCE Announced At Palo Alto Players, April 22- May 8
Palo Alto Players continues its 91st season with the Peninsula premiere of' ALLEGIANCE. This powerful Broadway musical, inspired by the true-life experiences of TV/film actor and social media icon George Takei (Mr. Sulu on Star Trek), tells the story of one family's extraordinary journey during the Japanese American internment of World War II. The company has assembled an all-star cast of 20 local Bay Area artists under the direction of Vinh G. Nguyen to bring the story of ALLEGIANCE to the stage.
Théatre Lapis Presents KUWENTO
Théatre Lapis will present ‘Kuwento - 物語 (read as Monogatari): Revisited Tales of Japan and the Philippines’, an online performance created through the collaboration between artists in the UK, Japan, France and Manila.
TABLETOP A NEW MUSICAL Announces Cast and Workshop Performances
MB Stage Productions announces the workshop cast of Tabletop (a new musical) and workshop performances at the Hollywood Fringe Festival (June 2019) Tabletop will be directed and developed under the guidance of Jared Tyrel Pixler and David Evan Stolworthy who had previously produced and directed THE VIDEO GAMES and Winter is Coming: A Musical Parody. Dance Choreography by James Matthew Johnson, Fight Choreography by Jared Tyrel Pixler, Music Direction by Chad Sundman and Assistant Music Direction by Paul Zelhart.
LINEUP Announced for 2019 LA MAMA MOVES! DANCE FESTIVAL
Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? Struggling for a stable identity and steadiness in an unsteady world where barriers are falling away and rising at the same time, the international lineup in the 2019 La MaMa Moves! dance festival—Yin Mei, Bobbi Jene Smith, Dan Safer, Hari Krishnan, Gruppo Nanou, Sin Cha Hong, Jesca Prudencio, Mia Habib, and Colleen Thomas—challenge such issues with unique urgency and originality. Their responses, alternately brightly witty, dead-on serious, and/or dark-humored, emerge from their singular historic and current cultural perspectives.