Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre is a New York City-based theatre group that explores the Asian-American experience and provides professional opportunities for Asian-American artists to collaborate.[1] Pan-Asian was founded by Tisa Chang and Ernest Abuba in 1977, and Chang remains artistic director.[2] Chang established the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre as a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1977, with the intention of popularizing Asian-American theater and leading to other similar theatre companies in cities with an Asian disaporic population.[3][4]
Specializing in intercultural productions of new Asian-American plays,[4] Asian classics in translation, and innovative adaptations of Western classics,[3] some of the works Pan Asian has presented included:
- Empress of China - featuring Tina Chen in the title role of China's last dowager ruler
- Yellow Fever - continued to an Off-Broadway run
- Ghashiram Kotwal - Marathi play with music
- Teahouse - by Lao She, spanning fifty years of modern Chinese history
- Cambodia Agonistes - by Ernest Abuba, music by Louis Stewart
- The Teahouse of the August Moon - by John Patrick
- Forbidden City Blues - by Alexander Woo
- The Fan Tan King - by C. Y. Leethe, world premiere
- Yohen - by Philip Kan Gotanda
- Tea - by Velina Hasu Houston, 20th anniversary production
- Ching Chong Chinaman at the Westside Theatre[5]
Pan Asian has staged early works of writers including Momoko Iko, Wakako Yamauchi, Philip Kan Gotanda, R. A. Shiomi, and David Henry Hwang. When they established a residency program in 1987, Pan Asian became the United States' first resident Asian American theater company continuing with Chang's goal to showcase Asian American theater as having a role in the city's theater scene.[6][7]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Pan Asian Repertory Theatre official website
- Pan Asian Repertory Theatre on La MaMa Archives Digital Collections
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