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“In Rehearsal”: Lia Chang Theater Portfolio Features Rehearsal Photos of David Henry Hwang’s Broadway Bound Chinglish and Samrat Chakrabarti and Sanjiv Jhaveri’s “Bakwas Bumbug! on View in the Asian Division Reading Room at Library of Congress through 8/2
Playwright David Henry Hwang adds new pages to his script during a rehearsal for Chinglish in the Healy Room of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago on June 5, 2011. © 2011 Lia Chang
From
July
20
through
August
2,
a
display
of
my
photographs
titled
“In
Rehearsal”
will
be
on
view
in
the
Library
of
Congress’
Asian
Division
Reading
Room,
located
in
Room
150
of
the
Thomas
Jefferson
Building,
10
First
Street
S.E.,
Washington,
D.C.
The
hours
of
the
Asian
Division
Reading
Room
are
8:30
a.m.
–
4:30
p.m.
(L-R) Stephen Pucci (Peter), Jennifer Lim (Xu Yan), and James Waterston (Daniel) rehearsing a scene for Chinglish in the Healy Room of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago on June 5, 2011. © 2011 Lia Chang
Drawn
from
the
Lia
Chang
Theater
Portfolio
in
the
Library’s
Asian
American
Pacific
Islander
Collection,
the
photographs
on
display
feature
rehearsals
of
David
Henry
Hwang’s
play,
“ChingLish,”
which
premiered
at
the
Goodman
Theatre
in
Chicago
this
summer
and
is
bound
for
Broadway
this
fall;
and
rehearsal
shots
from
“Bakwas
Bumbug!,”
a
pop
opera
by
Samrat
Chakrabarti
and
Sanjiv
Jhaveri,
which
recently
made
its
off-Broadway
debut.
The cast of Bakwas Bumbug with co-creator, co-director and composer Samrat Chakrabarti in rehearsal at DANY Studios in New York on 6/16/11. © 2011 Lia Chang
Photos: Thom Sesma’s Makeup Transformation as Scar in Disney’s The Lion King Las Vegas, Robert Lee & Leon Ko’s Heading East, David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish, Samrat Chakrabarti & Sanjiv Jhaveri’s Bakwas Bumbug!
Photo #49 BD Wong in rehearsal for a staged concert of Heading East, a Richard Rodgers Development Award-winning musical by Robert Lee and Leon Ko on May 22, 2010, at the Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium at Asia Society in New York. Helmed by Darren Lee, Heading East features a cast lead by Wong, Cindy Cheung, Fay Ann Lee, Manu Narayan, Lydia Gaston, MaryAnn Hu, Ming Chan, Angela Lin, Kelvin Moon Loh, Hazel Anne Raymundo, Jon Norman Schneider and Rodney To. Credit: Photo from The Lia Chang Theater Portfolio at the Library of Congress/AAPI Collection
From July 20 through August 2, “In Rehearsal”, a display of photographs drawn from the Lia Chang Theater Portfolio in the Library of Congress’ Asian American Pacific Islander Collection, is on view in the Library of Congress’ Asian Division Reading Room, located in Room 150 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C. The hours of the Library of Congress’ Asian Division Reading Room are 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
In Memoriam - Hideki Irabu 1969-2011 former NY Yankees Pitcher
Former New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu was found dead Wednesday at his home in Rancho Palos Verdes, California a suburb in Los Angeles county.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's office is investigating the case as a suicide.
AsianConnections' Suzanne Kai spoke with Irabu at a CAPE holiday event in 2009.
Click here for the Irabu's comments, and here for updates on this story.
Photos: Rick Shiomi Checks out Performing Arts Playwrights Series in the Asian American Pacific Islander Collection of Library of Congress
Rick Shiomi in the Asian Reading Room of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. on July 27, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang
Tonight,
I
am
meeting
up
with
groundbreaking
Asian-North
American
playwright,
teacher,
and
taiko
troupe
leader,
Rick
Shiomi,
who
is
making
a
rare
NYC
appearance
to
discuss
and
present
readings
from
the
new
anthology
“Asian
American
Plays
for
a
New
Generation”
(Temple
University
Press,
June
2011),
which
he
co-edited
with
Josephine
Lee
and
Don
Eitel.
Hosted
by
Julie
Azuma
and
Tamio
Spiegel,
the
event
begins
at
6:30pm
at
12
West
18th
Street,
#3E
in
New
York.
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