InterAct premieres the second play in its Philly Cycle program, this time spotlighting our Southeast Asian refugee community in a script inspired by a real-life salon on Ritner Street. Krist…
A new exhibition at Asian Arts Initiative explores the recent fight over the basketball arena proposed on the edge of Philly's Chinatown, celebrating the power of ordinary people who activat…
Trans playwright Mashuq Mushtaq Deen's Draw the Circle gets its regional premiere at Hedgerow, starring local actor Joseph Ahmed. It's an ode to the persistence and power of love in a fright…
A multidisciplinary theater project features nine performance installations by local artists that pull from listening circles held with local Asian elders. Krista Mar previews.
A double bill from a pair of Brooklyn-based choreographers explores adolescence through queer and Asian American lenses, with You're Actually the Last Person I Wanted to See Today and ZOO! K…
Philly actor, director, and playwright AZ Espinoza's lush and ambitious Caribbean King gets a pair of developmental readings as part of this year's Fringe. Krista Mar reviews.
Performance artist Clayton Lee defies "model minority" stereotypes with The Goldberg Variations, a funny, vulnerable, interdisciplinary original show that explores the greater meaning within…
R. Eric Thomas's Glitter in the Glass gets its East Coast premiere at South Philly's Theatre Exile in a hilarious and thought-provoking production directed by Ontaria Kim Wilson. Krista Mar …
J.B. Hwang's debut novel, out this July, follows a woman who upends her career as she grieves for her best friend, exploring female friendship and working-class lives in the early days of Co…
Moreno, getting its American premiere at InterAct, takes us to a 2016 NFL locker room in the aftermath of Colin Kaepernick's famous field protest. The show still has plenty to say about our …
In Erlina Ortiz's La EgoÃsta, now getting its Philly premiere at PTC, two very different sisters (one an irreverent comedian and the other a devoutly Christian bank employee) navigate the…
This bold and ambitious adaption of Othello from Philly-based Palestinian director Zaina Yasmin Dana weaves the original text with the modern realities of an ongoing war, with mixed but impr…
LA-based Lebanese American actor, writer, and producer Myria Ali-Ahmad brings her award-winning solo show, Handala: A Celebration of Palestine, to this year's Philly Fringe. Krista Mar revie…
The Climb, the latest world premiere onstage at InterAct, examines the white gaze in feminism, academia, and art, asking questions about power, consent, and commodification. Krista Mar revie…
Philly author Joseph Earl Thomas's fierce and unusual memoir, Sink, follows his boyhood in 1990s Frankford, where fiction, fantasy, and reality collide. Krista Mar reviews.
None of Philly's regional theaters have ever staged a full production of a non-solo show by a local AAPI playwright. Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists' new playwriting cohort wants to ch…
Christina Anderson's the ripple, the wave that carried me home, which explores a family on the front lines of desegregation in Kansas, gets its regional premiere at People's Light. Krista Ma…
Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a lesser-known early work by Lynn Nottage, one of America's most popular playwrights, still feels relevant in this Lantern Theater production. Krista Mar review…
Priyanka Shetty's The Elephant in the Room, a solo autobiographical show about an Indian software engineer turned theater artist, is proving the creator's performance chops in its Philly deb…
Solo performer Joseph Ahmed teams up with director Cat Ramirez for Half Magic, a Cannonball Festival show on grief and mixed-race identity through theater, circus, and storytelling. Krista M…
Justin Jain puts his own spin on Anton Chekhov's The Dangers of Tobacco in this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Krista Mar reviews.
In the regional premiere of sandblasted at Theatre Horizon, Black women in a desert landscape are trying to survive in a world that is literally making their bodies fall apart. Krista Mar re…
InterAct presents the world premiere of pay no worship, a play about very different cousins on a small Cape Verde island who grapple with the effects of climate change, despite too often bei…
Azuka teams with Teatro del Sol for the world premiere of AZ Espinoza's All My Mothers Dream in Spanish, a magical exploration of ancestry and healing that's also very much of the moment. Kr…
A Western take on a Syrian soap opera gets a surprising twist in Guillermo Calderón's Kiss, by turns hilarious and wrenching. Krista Mar reviews.