Posts Tagged ‘Rick Shiomi’

Rick Shiomi: Some Thoughts on the Future of Mu, and Other Ethnic Companies (Part II of II)

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? [...]

Rick Shiomi: A Brief History of Mu Performing Arts (Part I of II)

Asian American theater artists in Minnesota? How did this happen? In New York or LA, San Francisco or Seattle? Sure. But here in the Twin Cities? (I almost feel like breaking into a song from Music Man!) How did it happen that we have had such a dynamic wave of them over the past five [...]