Bill Rauch Announces OSF’s 2016 Season
"I am particularly excited about THE WINTER’S TALE in the Allen Elizabethan Theatre, seen through an Asian and Asian-American cultural lens."
Desdemona Chiang on bridging generational gaps in 4000 Miles
"It is a sweet, funny, and poignant story of two people who, as a result of an unexpected tragedy, find themselves connected and changed forever. "
The International Examiner: Desdemona Chiang brings the bard’s truths to today’s stage
Survival was tough in Shakespeare’s day, as it often can be today, and director Desdemona Chiang wants to bring that struggle to modern Seattle audiences with Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.
Encore Arts: Q&A with Desdemona Chiang
Desdemona Chiang is a stage director and University of Washington MFA graduate based in Seattle and San Francisco who puts the spotlight on the marginalized and forgotten... this month she directs Measure for Measure at Seattle Shakespeare, their first restaging of the play in twelve years. I talked to Chiang about the show, finding contemporary relevance in Shakespeare and the challenges of bi-urban living.
Crowded Fire Theater Announces 2015 Season
Crowded Fire Theater has announced its 2015 season, which will feature plays by A. Rey Pamatmat, Idris Goodwin and Geetha Reddy.
Nearly 40 artists granted funding through CityArtist program
The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture announces $160,000 in awards to 39 individual artists working in dance, music and theatre arts.
Boom Arts Brings the World to Portland Theaters
Boom’s upcoming production, a reading of celebrated German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s The Golden Dragon, further illustrates that combination of elements—what Wikler-Luker calls her “magic potion.”
SF Weekly: This Fantastic Equality – Aurora Theatre’s “Rapture, Blister, Burn” Poses the Feminist Questions Everyone’s Still Afraid to Ask
It's hard to find a play about feminism that would be controversial in Berkeley, California. But Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo, which this week begins previews at the Aurora Theatre Company, might just qualify.
PlayMakers Guest Director Desdemona Chiang Says, “Hairspray” Is “A Bit Like Cotton Candy for the Soul”
Hairspray’s irrepressible teenaged heroine Tracy Turnblad — the big girl with the big hair and the even bigger heart — is back.
PlayMakers’ Summer Youth Conservatory to Perform HAIRSPRAY, 7/16-20
A cast of young student actors will perform the Tony Award-winning musical "Hairspray" July 16-20 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.