As you may remember, I recently joined the Theatre Development Fund (TDF) as their Online Content Manager. I’m writing theatre features every week and having ludicrous amounts of fun doing it.
Here are the highlights from this week’s publishing escapades…
(1) First up, we’ve got a two-part series on New York’s Asian and Asian-American theatre community. In part one, I look at two Korean-language musicals currently playing in Manhattan, and I ask, “Can you get something out of these shows if you don’t speak Korean?”
In part two, I break it down with the major New York companies that are dedicated to Asian-American theatre. What does “Asian-American” mean to these artists? Has their notion of minority theatre (or for that matter, minority culture)changed?
(2) Next, there’s an interview with Tony Award winner Doug Hughes, who is in the unique position of directing two Broadway plays at the same time. How does he juggle the revival of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s comedy The Royal Family with David Mamet’s sexual harassment drama Oleanna, especially since they open three days apart?
*The photo comes from Joan Marcus. It features Hughes directing Oleanna co-stars Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles.








