Lia Chang: Pan Asian Rep’s 35th Anniversary Gala on March 19 honors Daniel Dae Kim and Dr. Patrica E. Taylor; New Season includes Stella Rising, BAUDELAIRE: La Mort

Daniel Dae Kim and Dr. Patricia E. Taylor will be honored at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s 35th Anniversary Gala on Monday, March 19, 2012, at the Edison Ballroom, 240 W 47th Street in New York. Tickets are $350, $500 and $1,000; tables begin at $5,000. Call 212-868-4030 or visit www.panasianrep.org to purchase.

Daniel Dae Kim image courtesy of DDK Entertainment

The evening will be co-emceed by Broadway performer Raul Aranas (Miss Saigon), and SLANT’s Richard Ebihara and Perry Yung. Pan Asian Rep will honor Daniel Dae Kim, alum from Pan Asian Rep’s 1993 production of A Doll House and star of television series “Hawaii Five-O,” “Lost,” and Academy Award-winning film Crash; and Dr. Patricia E. Taylor, research scientist, who with husband Kenneth Taylor, former Canadian Ambassador to Iran in the 70′s, was a key player in the escape of 6 Americans during the Iran hostage crisis.

The 7th Annual Red Socks Award, established to honor the memory of Lilah Kan, will be given to an Asian-American performer, to be announced at the event. The evening’s entertainment will also present highlights from Pan Asian’s musicals, andspecial In Memoriam photo tributes to Ellen Stewart founder of La Mama E.T.C. and Jadin Wong entertainer and artists manager.

The evening opens with a cocktail hour and dinner, and continues with the awards ceremony, dancing and a raffle, proceeds of which will benefit Pan Asian Repertory’s continuing commitment to nurturing the next generation of Asian-American artists and
audiences.

Pan Asian Rep is also launching their spring season this month with STELLA RISING and BAUDELAIRE: La Mort, two unique productions featuring veteran artists from the jazz, dance, theatre and experimental music communities. STELLA RISING and BAUDELAIRE: La Mort play off-Broadway at the West End Theatre (263 W. 86th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue in the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, 2nd floor). STELLA RISING runs March 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 at 7:30pm; and March 11 at 3:00pm; and BAUDELAIRE: La Mort runs March 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 and 31 at 7:30pm; and March 25 and April 1 at 3:00pm.

STELLA RISING
Written and performed by Napua Davoy
Directed by Karine Plantadit
March 8- 17, 2012
Tony Award©-nominated dancer Karine Plantadit (Come Fly Away) makes her directorial debut with Stella Rising, a new musical play. This Hawaiian-paradise-meets-The-Grapes-of-Wrath story of a mother and daughter reconciliation, features an original jazz and classical score written and performed by Napua Davoy (who has been called “one of the most extraordinary song stylists in today’s jazz world” by Newport Jazz Festival creator George Wein).

BAUDELAIRE: La Mort
Directed and Choreographed by Shigeko Sara Suga
Co-created with Ernest Abuba, Anna Gheesling and Minouche Waring
March 23- April 1, 2012
Inspired by Baudelaire’s masterpiece Les Fleur du Mal, Baudelaire: La Mort is dance theatre that fuses Butoh, Flamenco and French poetry, featuring Ernest Abuba, Anna Gheesling, and Shigeko Sara Suga with Tiffany Chen, Aaron Chieu, and Timothy Liu.
Baudelaire: La Mort features an original score written and performed live by Yukio Tsuji, and a Flamenco guitar performance by Arturo Martinez. The scenic design is by Gian Marco Lo Forte & Justin West; lighting design by Marie Yokoyama; co-Costume Design by Keiko Obremski; and Stage Managed by Katie Kavett and Ada Chau.

Via Subway, take the 1 train to 86th Street. Tickets $35 with discounts for seniors and students, tickets for performances
March 8 and 23 are $50 and include post-show party, call OvationTix 212-352-3101, or visit www.panasianrep.org.

About Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
Founded 35 years ago, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre is dedicated to providing a professional outlet to Asian American and minority artists. Led by Tisa Chang, Pan Asian Rep celebrates the talent and creativity of professional Asian American Theatre Artists. It has opened doors for many who enjoy careers in film, television and on Broadway. Daniel Dae Kim, Lucy Liu, David Henry Hwang and Philip Ken Gotanda are several actors and playwrights who have collaborated with Pan Asian Rep over the years. Notable past productions include: Ghashiram Kotwal, the Marathi play with music, exposing Brahmin abuse of privilege in 18th century India; Teahouse by Lao She, which spanned fifty years of modern Chinese history; Yellow Fever, the first of a trilogy of “Sam Shikaze, Private Eye” plays; and the musical commission Cambodia Agonistes – a mosaic of songs and ballets, with music composed by Louis Stewart, and text and lyrics by Ernest Abuba. Recent New York premieres include the musical Shanghai Lil’s by Lilah Kan and Louis Stewart; The Joy Luck Club by Susan Kim, based on the novel by Amy Tan, and the acclaimed revival of The Teahouse Of The August Moon directed by Ron Nakahara. January 2001 kicked off Pan Asian’s move into a new homebase, with the Legend of White Snake adapted & directed by Lu Yu followed by the momentous Rashomon. The company has been invited to many international theater festivals including Edinburgh, Singapore, Cairo and Johannesburg. It was the first professional theater from the United States to be requested at the Havana Theatre Festival in 2003. Variety Magazine continued to note “….the aesthetic mission and professional chops of the Pan Asian Repertory Theater are admirable.”

Other articles by Lia Chang:
David Henry Hwang to Receive 2012 William Inge Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award
Photos: Yellow Fever Playwright Rick Shiomi Explores New Territory with An All-Female Cast
Up Close and Personal with Rick Shiomi, Award-winning Playwright & Artistic Director of Mu Performing Arts
Randy Reyes Embraces his Passion for Storytelling as an Actor, Director and Theater Educator
Photos: BD Wong in Rehearsal for “Passing It On: An Evening of Mentorship to Benefit Rosie’s Theater Kids”
SIS Productions presents the Premiere & Grand Finale of Sex in Seattle 20: Happily Ever After . . ..4/27-5/26, 2012
Jeanne Sakata Set for SEVEN on March 21, 2012
Photos: Highlights of Shinsai: Theaters for Japan (3pm) with Andre Bishop, Mary Beth Hurt, Jennifer Lim, Angela Lin, Philip Kan Gotanda, Thom Sesma, Sab Shimono, Richard Thomas, Jay O. Sanders, and more
Photos: Highlights of Shinsai: Theaters for Japan (8pm) with Oskar Eustis, Patti LuPone, Lisa Emery, Ann Harada, Paolo Montalban, Thom Sesma, Sab Shimono, Henry Stram, Richard Thomas, John Weidman and more
Photos: In Rehearsal with Director Bartlett Sher and the cast of Shinsai: Theaters for Japan
Thom Sesma, Cindy Cheung, Ken Leung, Jennifer Lim, Sab Shimono, James Yaegashi and more set for Shinsai: Theaters for Japan Benefit on March 11 at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York
Randy Reyes directs Mu Performing Arts’ production of EDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM by A. Rey Pamatmat at Mixed Blood Theatre, March 13-April 1, 2012
Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Media Advisory on Jeremy Lin News Coverage
The SFIAAFF30 Kicks Off with World Premiere of White Frog Featuring Booboo Stewart, Harry Shum, Jr., Joan Chen, Kelly Hu and BD Wong, at the Castro Theater on March 8
Tony award-winning actor BD Wong stars in NBC’s Awake; video preview and interview
Photos: Laila Robins, Sean Dugan, C.J. Wilson, Peter Francis James, Bill Irwin and Tricia Paoluccio at Signature Theatre Company’s revival of Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque
Photos: “How To Succeed” stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rose Hemingway and John Larroquette at Lord & Taylor for Windows Unveiling
Multimedia: Promises, Promises’ Stars Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes at Lord & Taylor Fifth Ave
Broadwayworld.com Photo Flash: Library of Congress’ IN REHEARSAL Exhibit
Photos: David Duchovny, John Earl Jelks, Amanda Peet, Tracee Chimo at Opening Night Party of Neil LaBute’s Break of Noon
Multimedia: Exclusive photos and video of Disney’s The Lion King Las Vegas -In the Makeup Chair with Thom Sesma
Celebrating my mom – AN ACTIVE VISION: BEVERLY UMEHARA…LABOR ACTIVIST…1945-1999
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.

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Lia Chang Photos: On the Town with Rick Shiomi, Co-Editor of “Asian American Plays for a New Generation”, in Washington D.C. and New York

R.A. Shiomi's Yellow Fever. Photo by Lia Chang

On Wednesday, July 27, I reconnected with Rick Shiomi, the author of one of my favorite plays, “Yellow Fever,” when we were both in Washington D.C. at the Asian Reading Room of the Library of Congress in the Thomas Jefferson Building. The groundbreaking Asian-North American playwright, taiko troupe leader, and artistic director of Mu Performing Arts, was on a week long book tour to promote “Asian American Plays for a New Generation” (Temple University Press, June 2011), which he co-edited with Josephine Lee and Don Eitel.

Rick Shiomi with my display of photos “In Rehearsal”, drawn from the Lia Chang Theater Portfolio at the Library of Congress/AAPI Collection. Photo by Lia Chang

Reme Grefalda, the curator of the Asian Pacific Islander Collection, had put together a marvelous program which included his talk about the Anthology, and a week-long display in the Asian Reading Room of the Library of Congress.

Rick Shiomi looks at a glass case of the published works of his fellow Asian American Theater Pioneering peers including Frank Chin, Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Velina Hasu Houston and Genny Lim. Photo by Lia Chang

The display featured 37 photographs drawn from the Lia Chang Theater Portfolio including Thom Sesma’s Makeup Transformation as Scar in Disney’s “The Lion King Las Vegas”; rehearsals of a staged concert of Robert Lee and Leon Ko’s musical “Heading East” starring BD Wong at the Asia Society in New York; 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 of “Bakwas Bumbug!,” a pop opera by Samrat Chakrabarti and Sanjiv Jhaveri, which recently made its off-Broadway debut.

Original scripts by Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier, Velina Hasu Houston, Christine Toy Johnson, Lani Montreal, Edgar Mendoza and Jeanne Sakata. Photo by Lia Chang

The Library of Congress’ goal is to establish a national Asian Pacific American holdings, with a nationwide outreach, and the focus of the display was in celebration of works by Asian American playwrights.

The published works by Asian American Playwrights at The Library of Congress. Photo by Lia Chang

Drawn from the Performing Arts Playwrights Series in the Asian American Pacific Islander Collection, original scripts by Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier, Velina Hasu Houston, Christine Toy Johnson, Lani Montreal, Edgar Mendoza and Jeanne Sakata are on view. The display also highlights works by Frank Chin, Philip Kan Gotanda, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang, Genny Lim, Chay Yew and others.

Rick Shiomi, Julie Azuma and Tamio Spiegel. Photo by Lia Chang

Two days later, I joined Rick at Julie Azuma and Tamio Spiegel’s apartment in New York, where they hosted a swell book party for him.

Tisa Chang, Artistic Producing Director of Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Carla Ching, Artistic Director of Second Generation, Rick Shiomi, Artistic Director of Mu Performing Arts, Jorge Ortoll, Executive Director of Ma-Yi Theater Photo by Lia Chang

The Asian American Arts scene turned out in this reunion of sorts, including Tisa Chang, Artistic Producing Director of Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Carla Ching, Artistic Director of Second Generation, and Jorge Ortoll, Executive Director of Ma-Yi Theater; authors Henry Chang and Ed Lin; actors Raul Aranas and Henry Yuk; artist Tomie Arai, director Stann Nakazono; and Kentaro Ando and Masakazu Kigure, from the Consulate General of Japan. Cathie Hartnett of My Talk Radio in St Paul, Carol Connolly, the poet Laureate of St. Paul and Phil Nash from Washington D.C., stopped in as well.

Happy Valley playwright Aurorae Khoo and Rick Shiomi Photo by Lia Chang

Playwright Aurorae Khoo, whose play “Happy Valley” is in the anthology, talked about the process of developing her play with Mu Performing Arts, while actors Cindy Cheung, Fay Ann Lee, Amy Chang and Sean Tarjoto read excerpts from plays featured in the book.

Sean Tarjoto, Rick Shiomi, Cindy Cheung, Fay Ann Lee, Amy Chang Photo by Lia Chang

Rick took the time to answer some questions about “Asian American Plays for a New Generation”.

Rick Shiomi Photo by Lia Chang

How does this anthology live up to its title?
Rick: The plays in this anthology were all written and produced after 2004 and reflect a larger horizon of Asian American issues and communities while still dealing with existing challenges in playful and different ways. There is a play about the Hmong American community and experience which is just now receiving attention within Asian American theater world. There’s a play about Korean adoption which has been a major focus of attention in Minnesota but only now coming to wider national attention (including an upcoming forum on this
issue at the Library of Congress). But there are also plays about LGBTQI issues in Asian American families, transnational events such as the transfer of Hong Kong to China and the history of women in the media and performance. So I feel the anthology truly addresses the issues and conversational framework for Asian Americans in the 21st century.

Carol Connolly, the poet Laureate of St. Paul, Rick Shiomi and Cathie Hartnett of My Talk Radio in St. Paul. Photo by Lia Chang

How was Mu Performing Arts involved in the book?
Rick: Mu Performing Arts helped to develop and produce the world premiere of six of the seven plays in this anthology. Through programs funded by the Jerome and Ford Foundations, we have been able to focus on developing new work by emerging Asian American writers. With two of the three book editors on staff at Mu, we were able to look at over a dozen new plays produced by Mu in the past decade and other plays we felt were in the same realm, before we selected the ones in this anthology.

Rick Shiomi with novelist Ed Lin and his wife Cindy Cheung, an actress who read excerpts from the Anthology. Photo by Lia Chang

What’s your favorite story in regards to the plays in this book?
Rick: I have two stories and both reflect how initial problems in the development of plays can be deceiving and ultimately overcome. The first is about “Asiamnesia” by Sun Mee Chomet. It started as a group writing effort in our Jerome New Performance Program. Sun Mee had gathered a group of Asian American women writers to create the play but through several drafts we never thought it worked well because the writing was too disparate. Finally, we asked Sun Mee to write the play herself and she did with great success as the play was recognized by the Minneapolis Star Tribune critic, Rohan Preston, as the “best new script” of 2008, So in a way I feel Sun Mee failed her way to success, through talent and determination. The second story is about “Bahala Na,” by Clarence Coo. When we first read it, we felt it was too poetic to work on stage but when we actually did a reading of it, we all loved the style because it fit the epic nature of play. So we decided to work on it as part of our Ford Foundation, Emerging Writers of Color Program and eventually produced the world premiere of the play in 2007.

Rick Shiomi with Kentaro Ando and Masakazu Kigure, from the Consulate General of Japan Photo by Lia Chang

Rick Shiomi and Phil Nash Photo by Lia Chang

A Soh Daiko reunion for Peter Wong, Teddy Yoshikami and Rick Shiomi Photo by Lia Chang

“Asian American Plays for a New Generation” is available online at Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Asian-American-Plays-New-Generation/dp/1439905169

Henry Chang, noted mystery/crime fiction novelist, surprised Rick with an original script of Yellow Fever for him to sign. Photo by Lia Chang

Mu Performing Arts Website
For more information about the division and its holdings, go to www.loc.gov/rr/asian/.

Other Articles on “Asian American Plays for a New Generation” & “In Rehearsal”
Temple Press: Rick Shiomi recounts his tour for “Asian American Plays for a New Generation”
Mu Blog: Rick Shiomi’s Book Tour Logbook
knightarts.org: Reading on the road inside the book tour
Broadwayworld.com Photo Flash: Library of Congress’ IN REHEARSAL Exhibit
Lia Chang Theater Portfolio at Library of Congress Features Photos of Thom Sesma’s Makeup Transformation as Scar in Disney’s The Lion King Las Vegas, Robert Lee and Leon Ko’s Heading East Starring BD Wong, David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish, and Samrat Chakrabarti and Sanjiv Jhaveri’s Bakwas Bumbug! on View Through August 2
Photos: Rick Shiomi Checks out Performing Arts Playwrights Series in the Asian American Pacific Islander Collection of Library of Congress; Attends “Asian American Plays for a New Generation” Book Signing in NY on 7/29
“Asian American Plays for a New Generation”, A New Anthology of Asian American Plays Is Subject of Book Talk
broadwayworld.com: Chinglish in Rehearsal
asiancemagazine.com: New Anthology of Asian American Plays Book Talk
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.

Lia Chang Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden. Lia currently plays Nurse Lia on “One Life to Live”. She has appeared in Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and “New York Undercover”.

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 PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.

All text, graphics, articles & photographs: © 2000-2011 Lia Chang Multimedia. All rights reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Lia Chang. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. For permission, please contact Lia at liachangpr@gmail.com.

Christine Toy Johnson Kicks off Pan Asian Rep’s NEWWORKS 09 by Lia Chang

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre continues its 32nd season with NEWWORKS 09 through April 11 at the West End Theatre (263 W. 86th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue in the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, 2nd floor). The lineup includes plays, a Monday Music Night Series and a selection of Emerging Artist Shorts.

Christine Toy Johnson and husband Bruce Alan Johnson at the reception for her Things I Love Cabaret Show at West End Theatre on March 16 presented by Pan Asian Rep. in New York. (Photo by Lia Chang)

Award-winning actress and playwright Christine Toy Johnson was a vision in electric blue, with special guest Bruce Alan Johnson, as she kicked off Pan Asian Rep’s NEWWORKS 09 with Things I Love, a marvelous cabaret evening at West End Theatre on March 16. Accompanied by Robert Lee on piano, Christine sang some of  her favorite songs like “This Can’t Be Love,” “My Favorite Things,” “If I Were a Bell,” and “How Deep is the Ocean” as well as a piece she premiered in Kevin So’s award-winning musical Victor Woo, The Average Asian American. The husband and wife filmmaking team just returned from Hawaii, where they picked up a Golden Kahuna Award at the Honolulu International Film Festival for TRANSCENDING, THE WAT MISAKA STORY, their new documentary about the first person of color to play in the NBA. For more information about Wat Misaka, visit www.watmisaka.com.   www.christinetoyjohnson.com

Pan Asian Rep's Ernest Abuba, Tisa Chang, Christine Toy Johnson, Bruce Alan Johnson and Robert Lee, at the reception for Things I Love at West End Theatre presented by Pan Asian Rep. (Photo by Lia Chang)

NEWWORKS 09 Schedule through April 11, 2009

Pan Asian Repertory's NEWWORKS 09

SMART ASS (March 18 – March 22)

Pan Asian Rep presents the world premiere of Lan Tran’s one-woman comedy, Smart Ass, exploring psychics, dogs, dating and learning to “speak her own body language.”

THE SECRET OF O-SONO (March 25 – April 5)
Written by Elsa Okon Rael and directed by Ron Nakahara, The Secret of O-Sono is a ghost-love story for family audiences, presented with Japanese poetic forms and theatrical Kabuki and Noh traditions, with Japanese movement consulting by Sachiyo Ito and inspired by Japanese folk tales collected by Lafcadio Hearn.  Starring Emi F. Jones as O-Sono, with John Baray, Chris Doi, Nancy Eng, Yoko Hyun, Glenn Kubota, Keoni Scott, Bea Soong, and Shigeko Suga.

RAMONA and DINNER (April 7 and 8)
In Ramona, a one woman show based on the works of Paraguayan writers Margot Ayala de Michelagnoli and Mario Halley Mora, writer / performer Paula Irun details the dehumanizing effects of a militaristic society on a young woman’s life. Ramona is performed in English and Guaraní, an indigenous tongue and the second official language of Paraguay. In contrast, Dinner is a humorous look at men and a woman’s place in marriage.

A DAY AFTER THE DAY (April 9 -11)
Written and directed by Juyoung Hong, this is a multi-media solo performance piece using sound and video-scape, an adaptation of Woyzeck, the famed tragedy which explores social dynamics and the tension between have and have-nots, re-imagined from the perspective of a new immigrant.

“Monday Music Nights…”

SUNG WITH WORDS (March 30)
An evening with celebrated jazz pianist Helen Sung and her trio. Breaking stereotypes as an Asian-American jazz pianist and composer, her experience in classical, jazz, & popular music gives her a compelling, unique voice.  A graduate of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, she has worked with such masters as Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Jon Faddis, Wayne Shorter, Steve Turre, T.S.Monk and Regina Carter.

STEEL PAN PERCUSSIONIST ANDY AKIHO (April 6)
Andy Akiho, an award winning composer and performer with a broad range of interests that stretch from steel pan to western classical music, has performed with numerous professional ensembles, and his immersion in various genres has given him a unique approach to his primary instrument, the steel pan.

“Emerging Artists Shorts…”

FISH DREAMS and FLIGHT (March 31 and April 1)
Performed by Mitsu Salmon with musician ryotaro Fish Dreams and Flight are two dance/music/theater collaborations. The first takes place in a magical sushi restaurant where the dishes cause emotional and metaphysical responses from customers and workers alike. In Flight, a neurotic flight attendant questions the importance of her work and life.

LUCAS KWONG (March 31 and April 1)
Kwong explores themes of love, death and God with songs ranging in sound from a gospel service to a barroom brawl. Fluent on piano, guitar, and trumpet, Lucas has been writing songs since he was thirteen. His work is inspired by the diverse sounds of Ellington, Mozart, Lennon and Dylan.

PAN ASIAN REP’S NEWWORKS 09 runs off-Broadway at the West End Theatre (263 W. 86th Street between Broadway & West End Avenue in the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, 2nd floor) through April 11. Via Subway, take the 1 train to 86th St. Performances are Monday – Saturday at 7:30PM with matinees Sunday at 3:00PM, No performances March 23 or 24; The Secret of O-Sono student matinees are at 11:00AM on March 25, 26, April 1 and 2; Monday Music Nights on March 30 and April 6; Emerging Artists Shorts play March 31 and April 1. Tickets $18, call OvationTix 212-352-3101, or visit www.panasianrep.org.

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