Name me any prominent Asian American playwright out there today, and I will quickly be able to point out their “identity” play. We have at least one. For Asian American artists, our ethnicity still bleeds into our work sooner or later. Even Young Jean Lee, an auteur who explodes the boundaries of theater, dealt heavily [...]
No sooner do we recognize the strength and achievement of the Asian American theater community, than someone raises the specter of “the withering away of the ethnic company.” That is, once there are plenty of Asian American theater artists in the Twin Cities, will we need a specifically Asian American company like Mu Performing Arts? [...]
