Lia Chang
Venida Evans, Vinie Burrow, Leslie Uggams, Carmen Delavallade and Elain Graham celebrate at THE RIVER CROSSES RIVERS opening night party on October 8, 2009 in the lobby of the Castillo Theatre in New York. © Lia Chang
Women are currently reigning supreme at the Castillo Theatre in New York, where Woodie King Jr.’s NEW FEDERAL THEATRE in association with Castillo Theatre has re-opened THE RIVER CROSSES RIVERS, a festival of seven short one-act plays by women of color, originally produced in the Going To The River run at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in September.
THE KITCHEN playwright Naveen Bahar Choudhury with her castmembers Seril James, Sakina Jaffrey, Andrew Guilarte and Yasmin Kazi at THE RIVER CROSSES RIVERS opening night party on October 8, 2009 in the lobby of the Castillo Theatre in New York. © Lia Chang
The plays:
THE KITCHEN (or 9 1/2 minutes of sub-continental absurdity), by Naveen Bahar Choudhury, directed by Jamie Richards, starring
Andrew Guilarte, Sakina Jaffrey, Seril James and Yasmin Kazi.
THE STEP-MOTHER by Ruby Dee, directed by Chuck Patterson, starring Carmen Delavallade and Mary Hodges.
Miss Ruby Dee, actress and playwright with Elizabeth Van Dyke, producing artistic director and co-founder of Going to the River © Lia Chang
BANANA BEER BATH by Lynn Nottage, directed by Talvin Wilks starring Elain Graham.
RALLY by Bridgette Wimberly, directed by Clinton Turner Davis, starring Venida Evans and Erin Weems.
HOT METHUSELAH by J.e Franklin, directed by Imani, starring Vinie Burrow, Norman Matlock and John Rankin.
JESSE by P.J. Gibson, directed by Lydia Fort, starring Christopher Burris and Maya Lynne Robinson.
HIS DADDY by Cori Thomas, directed by Stephen Fried, starring John Matthew Montelongo and David Lindsay Smiling.
Playwrights Cori Thomas, Bridgette Wimberly, P.J. Gibson and Naveen Bahar Choudhury at the THE RIVER CROSSES RIVERS opening night party on October 8, 2009 in the lobby of the Castillo Theatre in New York. © Lia Chang
General Admission is $25. For Tickets go online at www.Theatermania.com or call 866-811-4111. For more information call New Federal Theatre at 212-353-1176 or go online at www.newfederaltheatre.org.
Nathan Purdee and New Federal Theatre's Woodie King, Jr. at THE RIVER CROSSES RIVERS opening night party on October 8, 2009 in the lobby of the Castillo Theatre in New York. © Lia Chang
THE RIVER CROSSES RIVERS was originally produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre, William Carden (Artistic Director) & Paul Alexander Slee (Executive Director), and GOING TO THE RIVER Elizabeth Van Dyke, co-founder& Producing Artistic Director and Jamie Richards, Executive Director.
Check out the slideshow of the THE RIVER CROSSES RIVERS opening night party on October 8, 2009 in the lobby of the Castillo Theatre.
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Selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space are now in the newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.
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