The form of this week’s column is new for me. Rather than focusing on individual Japanese Americans, it covers (or recovers) the unknown story of a pioneering theatrical drama, by the name of “Tondemonai — Never Happen!†It premiered in Los Angeles in May of 1970, and was the first commercially-produced play to dramatize the […]
THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Early play took an unflinching look at the trauma of the wartime incarceration
May 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
East West Players premieres ‘Wrinkles’
February 3, 2011 by 1 Comment
LOS ANGELES — The East West Players (EWP), the nation’s premier Asian American theatre company premieres “Wrinkles†by Paul Kikuchi, a sticky comedy about sex, lies and Tiger Balm. Grandpa Harry has a big secret. Unbeknownst to his daughter and grandson, 73-year-old Nisei Harry Fukutani is an Internet sensation. But his works are only accessible when […]
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