• Pan Asian Rep 2024 Fall Reading Series – My Man Kono

    520 8th Avenue – 3rd Floor Bruce Michell Room 520 8th Avenue - 3rd Floor Bruce Mitchell Room, New York, NY

    In the heyday of silent films, Japanese émigré TORIACHI KONO, in pursuit of the American Dream, becomes a loyal confidante of film star Charlie Chaplin, but at the dawn of WWII is swept up in anti-Japanese hysteria and accused of espionage. This will be a sneak peak of Pan Asian Rep’s Feb 2025 world premiere […]

  • Pan Asian Rep 2024 Fall Reading Series – Calligraphy

    520 8th Avenue – 3rd Floor Bruce Michell Room 520 8th Avenue - 3rd Floor Bruce Mitchell Room, New York, NY

    Two cousins and their mothers confront changes generated by the past and the passing of time. In Los Angeles, one cousin faces her immigrant mother’s dementia while, in Tokyo, the other is challenged by her mother’s physical decline. Family history of the immigrant mother having married an African American and left Japan behind complicates all […]