Amy Tan News

Segerstrom Center for the Arts has announced its line-up of shows for its 2022-2023 Subscription Series. Get the schedule and find out how to get tickets. Back by popular demand, multiple series genres will be available on a season ticket basis including Broadway, Curtain Call, Jazz, Cabaret, Chamber, and Family series.

Book-It Repertory Theatre (Book-It) and its Board of Trustees are pleased to announce Jeannine Clarke (she/her) as the company's new Managing Director. This decision is the culmination of a five-month intentional search process to find and develop a cross-functional leader with the creativity and management experience to direct the organization at an ever-changing time in the theatre world.

Academy Award® winner Daniel Junge and Emmy Award winner Sam Pollard announced today that they have partnered with the estate of the Archbishop Carl Bean to co-direct the upcoming documentary I WAS BORN THIS WAY based on the iconic LGBTQ Archbishop’s incredible life as a singer turned leader and activist.

The much anticipated dance production, Tiler Peck, Artists At The Center opened on Friday night to the sheer delight of the full-house audience.

Book-It Repertory Theatre will return to in-person, live performance on the Center Theatre stage after postponing their winter show due to the Omicron wave of Covid-19.

After over 20 months, and a season and a half of audio dramas, Book-It Repertory Theatre (Book-It) will return to in-person, live performance on the Center Theatre stage.

Book-It Repertory Theatre presents the second audio drama in its hybrid season, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, available to stream or download beginning November 23.

Word for Word, a program of Z space, Word For Wordcast 2021 season continues with  Anna Maria Ortese's 'A Pair of Eyeglasses' translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee posting on September 16.

Book-It Repertory Theatre has announced its 2021-2022 season of plays, scheduled to begin October 12. Their 32nd season will be a hybrid model of both audio dramas and in-person productions.

Today (May 27) in live streaming: Meet the Top 5 College contestants of Next On Stage, a JOy Luck Club reunion on Stars in the House, and more!

Stars in the House continues tonight (8pm ET) with a THE JOY LUCK CLUB Cast reunion in honor of AAPI Month! Kieu Chinh, France Nuyen, Ming-Na Wen, Lauren Tom, Rosalind Chao and writer/author Amy Tan will come together to reminisce about their time working on this groundbreaking project.

The cast of the “The Joy Luck Club” will reunite on “Stars In The House” this Friday, May 28 at 8pm ET, in honor of AAPI Heritage Month. Kieu Chinh, France Nuyen, Ming-Na Wen, Lauren Tom, Rosalind Chao, and writer/author Amy Tan will come together to reminisce about their time working on this groundbreaking project. 

WORLD Channel, which shares the best of public media in news, documentaries and programming, will celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a series of featured documentary films in May sharing the culturally significant stories that represent the more than 20 million Asian or Pacific Islander Americans in the United States, according to the U.S. Census. The films will be broadcast on WORLD Channel and stream on WORLDChannel.org.

San Francisco theater company Word for Word’s new audio drama podcast series Word For Wordcast continues in February with Books & Roses by Helen Oyeyemi posting in three parts February 14, 21 & 28 2021. All audio dramas in the series include “deep dive interviews'' with creators/artists and are and will be available at http://www.zspace.org/pod and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

San Francisco theater company Word for Word continues their New Podcast Series Word For Wordcast with the new radio drama podcast of author and tribal leader Greg Sarris’ short story Citizen going up on January 14 & 21 2021, available at http://www.zspace.org/pod and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Word For Wordcast now expands with three new podcasts. On December 28 The 14 Mission by Anita Cabrera posts to Word for Word’s site, on January 14 & 21 2021 Citizen by Greg Sarris goes up with Books & Roses by Helen Oyeyemi posting in three parts February 14, 21 & 28 2021.

The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the showcase of new independent work selected across the Feature Film, Short Film, Indie Series and New Frontier categories for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

PBS viewers believe in the power of literature, and we realize now more than ever our society needs books to fuel our imagination and help explore solutions to our problems.

This spring, rising star Philadelphia playwright Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters will bring the world premiere of her moving new play ESTHER CHOI AND THE FISH THAT DROWNED to Philadelphia's Simpatico Theatre. The play, which explores grief with comedy, heart and music, will run March 25 through April 12 at the Louis Bluver Theatre at The Drake. Reviewing press are invited to the 8:00pm performance on March 27, 2020.

The exclusive West Coast production of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child celebrates the official opening in San Francisco today, Sunday, December 1, at the Curran Theater. Once preview performances began on October 23, San Francisco and New York became the only destinations in the United States where fans can see the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the most awarded play in theater history.