Tina Chilip News

Playwrights Michael Lew (MICROCRISIS, STOCKTON) and Rehana Mirza (BARRIERS, THE GOOD MUSLIM) take the helm as co-directors of Ma-Yi Theater Company's Writers Lab succeeding co-director Lloyd Suh and co-director Qui Nguyen, it has been announced by Ma-Yi Artistic Director Ralph Pena.

Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company's FLIPZOIDS - a play by Ma-Yi Artistic Director Ralph B. Pena and directed by Obie Award-winner Loy Arcenas, to be presented Off-Broadway at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 West 42 St.) in Manhattan.

The Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Ma-Yi Theater Company - one of the country's leading Asian-American theater companies and whose most recent production was Michael Lew's play MICROCRISIS directed by Ralph B. Pena - will continue its 2010-11 season with FLIPZOIDS, a play written by Mr. Pena, with previews set to begin January 11 prior to an official opening on January 18 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 W. 42 St.) in Manhattan.

From his prison cell, former French diplomat Rene Gallimard (Andrew Long) recalls the story of how he came to be loved by Song Liling (Randy Reyes), a performer in the Peking opera. Assigned to Beijing in the 1960s, Gallimard encounters Song in a performance of Madame Butterfly.

The Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for its upcoming production of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, the 1988 Tony and Drama Desk award-winning play about a French diplomat who falls in love with a Chinese actress who turns out to be not only a spy but a man.

TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presents the ferociously funny, utterly unreliable memoir, Yellow Face, from the Tony Award-winning author of M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang. Part fact, part fiction, this revealing backstage comedy chronicles the playwright?s struggle to define racial identity in the mixed-up melting pot of contemporary America. Broadway and Off-Broadway star Francis Jue will reprise his Obie-Award winning role as the playwright?s father alongside New York-based actor Pun Bandhu and Bay Area theatre veterans Robert Ernst, Amy Resnick, and Howard Swain. Thomas Azar and Tina Chilip make their TheatreWorks debuts. Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley will direct. Yellow Face plays August 26 through September 20 (press opening August 29), at TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. For tickets and information, the public may call 650-463-1960, or visit www.theatreworks.org.

TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presents the ferociously funny, utterly unreliable memoir, Yellow Face, from the Tony Award-winning author of M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang. Part fact, part fiction, this revealing backstage comedy chronicles the playwright?s struggle to define racial identity in the mixed-up melting pot of contemporary America. Broadway and Off-Broadway star Francis Jue will reprise his Obie-Award winning role as the playwright?s father alongside New York-based actor Pun Bandhu and Bay Area theatre veterans Robert Ernst, Amy Resnick, and Howard Swain. Thomas Azar and Tina Chilip make their TheatreWorks debuts. Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley will direct. Yellow Face plays August 26 through September 20 (press opening August 29), at TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. For tickets and information, the public may call 650-463-1960, or visit www.theatreworks.org.

TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presents the ferociously funny, utterly unreliable memoir, Yellow Face, from the Tony Award-winning author of M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang. Part fact, part fiction, this revealing backstage comedy chronicles the playwright?s struggle to define racial identity in the mixed-up melting pot of contemporary America. Broadway and Off-Broadway star Francis Jue will reprise his Obie-Award winning role as the playwright?s father alongside New York-based actor Pun Bandhu and Bay Area theatre veterans Robert Ernst, Amy Resnick, and Howard Swain. Thomas Azar and Tina Chilip make their TheatreWorks debuts. Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley will direct. Yellow Face plays August 26 through September 20 (press opening August 29), at TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. For tickets and information, the public may call 650-463-1960, or visit www.theatreworks.org.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's re-envisioned hit The Joy Luck Club has a new block of tickets on sale, extending its previously announced 4-week engagement through December 1. The Joy Luck Club, a play by Susan Kim adapted from the acclaimed novel by Amy Tan has direction and musical staging by Artistic Director, Tisa Chang and is currently playing at the Julia Miles Theatre.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opens their 31st season with a new production of The Joy Luck Club, a play by Susan Kim adapted from the acclaimed novel by Amy Tan; opening tonight Wednesday November 7 at 7PM at the Julia Miles Theatre

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre launched their 31st season with a new production of The Joy Luck Club, a play by Susan Kim adapted from the acclaimed novel by Amy Tan. With direction and musical staging by Pan Asian Rep's Artistic Director, Tisa Chang, The Joy Luck Club runs through November 25 at the Julia Miles Theatre (424 W. 55th Street between 9th & 10th Aves). Opening night is Wednesday, November 7 at 7PM.

Amy Tan's acclaimed novel 'The Joy Luck Club' has woven the warm and intriguing stories of four Chinese mothers and their daughters for readers of all generations today and still to come. This fall, Pan Asian Rep revives Susan Kim's stage-adaptation of The Joy Luck Club with a cast brimming with new and seasoned Asian-American actors, eager to bring this cherished tale to life. The four 'daughters' of The Joy Luck Club - Han Nah Kim, Rosanne Ma, Tina Chilip and Sacha Iskra - to discuss their shared experience in this play and the important role of Asians in American theatre...

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre launches their 31st season with a new production of The Joy Luck Club, a play by Susan Kim adapted from the acclaimed novel by Amy Tan. With direction and musical staging by Pan Asian Rep's Artistic Director, Tisa Chang, The Joy Luck Club will play October 28 through November 25 at the Julia Miles Theatre (424 W. 55th Street between 9th & 10th Aves). Opening night is Wednesday, November 7 at 7PM.

This production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the directing work of Alex Torra, a third-year MFA directing student in collaboration with a cast of second and third-year acting students.