Pan Asian Repertory Theatre

SAVE THE DATE! @mocanyc will be hosting the screening of @tcg_gram's #LegacyLeaders of Color Video Project featuring Tisa Chang on Weds., April 12 at 6:30PM! Join us in celebrating Tisa's 40th Milestone Season with us & forging the way with so many other incredibly inspiring individuals as part of the Asian American theatre movement! #LLCVP #panasianrep #moca #mocanyc #aaarts #theatre #tcg #diversity #inclusion (at Museum of Chinese in America)

@tcg_gram's #LLCVP "chronicles the stories of the theatre leaders of color who created the work, founded the organizations and led the vanguards of the resident theatre movement." Our very own #TisaChang has "challenged appropriation and misrepresentation through staging the full richness and complexity of racial, ethnic and cultural identities" and we couldn't be prouder! (at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre)

All of us at Pan Asian Rep are SO proud of #TisaChang who was honored at @osfashland with the unveiling of @tcg_gram #LegacyLeadersofColor project ❤️ (at Oregon Shakespeare Festival)

Our staged reading of #EnterLaughing is this Friday! RSVP for a spot. $10 for an amazing cast, snacks, wine, and great company. You do not want to miss out on this opportunity to support Pan Asian and get your fill of great theatre! (at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre)

Falls almost here 🍂🍁🌻. Let's throw it back to the cast of #Sayonara performing at @bryantparknyc when it was still warm and sunny! (at Bryant Park)

Join us for #EnterLaughing written by #JosephStein and directed by #RaulAranas on September 23 at 7:00PM! Don't forget to RSVP! (at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre)

#FBF to @katieleehill in #FilmChinois by #DamonChua, directed by #KaipoSchwab ✨ (at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre)

#TBT to ✨A Dream of Red Pavilions✨ by Jeremy Tiang, adapted from the novel by Cao Xueqin and Directed by Tisa Change and Lu Yu 🌹 (at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre)

Can you find #ErnestAbuba in this #Hirschfeld drawing? (at New York, New York)

Production design includes sets by Sheryl Liu (FISHING FOR WIVES, NO-NO BOY), lights by Marie Yokoyama (THREE TREES, BAUDELAIRE La Mort; costumes by Carol Pelletier  (DOJOJI, KWATZ! the Tibetan Project) and sound by Ian Wherle, (NO-NO BOY, FISHING FOR WIVES).

Our 2014/15 38th Milestone Season has been announced: #asianamericanartists #opportunities #breakingnewground

#NuWorks Program C is what's happening!  Missed the amazing works from lead artists Allen Lang, Aizzah Fatima and Una Aya Osato?  Don't fret- check them out this Sunday at 2:30!  More info on Program C, as well as programs A and B at www.panasianrep.org

#NuWorks program A: (6/10 & 6/13 @ 7:30) rocked! Program B resumes tonight (6/11) with Anna Sycamore DeMers, Jo Shui and Daniel Glenn.  See you there!  More info on NuWorks at www.panasianrep.org

or in person at the box office PROGRAM A: June 10th and 13th at 7:30pm LIGHT, SHADOW and WIND choreographed and performed by Mana Hashimoto Mana is a blind dancer who completely lost her sight in the middle of adulthood. This solo contemporary dance piece expresses "Light, Shadow and Wind" in her own life and the lives of others. DAUGHTER OF THE MAKAHIYA  written and performed by Nehprii Amenii directed by Martin Balmaceda Daughter of the Makahiya is a dramatic solo performance of a woman's realization that she has become her father. While coming to terms with the inevitable, she invites you in to witness her own disappearing act. THREE TWO ONE! by Rebecca Lee Lerman  directed by Diane Phelan performed by Rebecca Lee Lerman, Viet Vo, Lynn Craig and Loresa Lanceta What happens to friendship when Life gets in the way? Three childhood friends struggle through the terrain of sisterhood while on the search for success and stability in New York City. PROGRAM B: June 11th and 14th at 7:30pm SPEAKING OF... conceived and choreographed: Anna Sycamore DeMers  additional collaboration with Chelsea Gregory performed by: Anna Sycamore DeMers, Sarah Ferreira A dance performance that investigates the ways we communicate with our bodies, questioning when we absolutely need to speak verbally, and how to communicate that which feels impossible to say. FAMILY DREAMS- by Jo Shui directed by Ernest Abuba performed by Adelyne Liu and Bea Soong A mother battling cancer prepares to say good-bye to her child. Through their years, we see their shared family dreams of survival come true.  HOW TO NOT GET TURNED INTO A TREE written and performed by Daniel Glenn directed by Shayna Strype  An excerpt from a solo performance with four characters- a motivational speaker, a Tea Party treasurer, a disgruntled teenage girl and a bibliophile- trying to find their way to decency in a sea of change. PROGRAM C: June 12th at 7:30pm & June 15th at 2:30pm GOOGLE, IT'S COMPLICATED! written and performed by Aizzah Fatima directed by Kristan Seemel A true story of one girl’s love affair with Google, ads quality, and doing good. THE WADING POOL by Allen Lang directed by Erin Ortman performed by Joel Karie and Lorraine Mattox In the afterlife, two characters meet and befriend each other at a beautiful pool where they share how they lived and how they died. exHOTic other created and performed by Una Aya Osato directed DawN Crandell  How many layers must you lose to get to the center of yourself? Join Una Aya Osato and her burlesque alter ego, exHOTic OTHER, as they take on the world and take off their clothes.

Adapted from the groundbreaking novel by John Okada, NO-NO BOY follows draft resister Ichiro Yamada as he returns to Seattle following his release from prison. Ken Narasaki’s vivid adaptation depicts Ichiro’s search for resolution among family, friends, and a community in transition following the resettlement of Japanese Americans on the West Coast after the war.

NO-NO BOY takes its title from people who answered "No" and "No" to two questions on the Loyalty Questionnaire. Learn more about the questionnaire from the below excerpt of our Study Guide, put together by Tamio Spiegel: In February 1943, the War Relocation Authority, the branch of the US Military that ran the internment camps presented a questionnaire to all interned adults over the age of 17 to determine the degree of loyalty of internees. By this time, the US government had already declared and announced that internees could volunteer for military service.  The core of the “Loyalty Questionnaire” was Questions #27 and #28. Question #27  Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty, wherever ordered? Question #28  Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any and all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance to the Japanese Emperor or any other foreign government, power, or organization? These questions were asked of every interned adult over the age of 17 years. These questions were to be answered by 19 year-old male American citizens, 70-year-old Japanese immigrant women, and every other imprisoned demographic. The “Loyalty Questionnaire” caused much confusion, consternation, debate, and disruption within the camps. There has been speculation that the US Military made Question # 28 purposefully vague so as to assure there would be some ‘No’ responses, thereby justifying the internment, itself. People who responded ‘No’ to both questions became known, within the Japanese American community as ‘No-No’s. Following the release of the Questionnaire, the camp at Tule Lake was designated as the location in which to concentrate perceived ‘disloyal’ internees. Thousands of people who answered ‘No-No’ were relocated there, while thousands of people residing at Tule Lake who did not answer ‘No-No’ were displaced again and sent to other camps.

Details at www.panasiarnep.org