#cambodianrockband

[twoontheaisle]

“Cambodian Rock Band” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

When this comes to the Bay Area (and I’m pretty sure it will - it was developed in part at Berkeley Rep) I will see it again. The story of a father and a daughter, many years after (and during) the reign of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian Rock Band is a celebration of perseverance in the face of persecution, and a cautionary tale of dreams deferred. Read my full review at TalkinBroadway.

[thecolorfulartteacher]

Gorgeous weather, inspiring performances and exciting workshops! Another successful trip to @SOUAshland @osfashland in the books for 8th grade Ss @NCS_LE #ncsinnovate #hairspray #ciclo #cambodianrockband https://www.instagram.com/p/BvZeNE1BYqm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1maff59xeasw0

[brothermarc7theatre]

Season Announcement Wednesday...errr...Thrusday

Happy (delayed) Season Announcement Wednesday! This week's highlighted company literally just announced their season this week, and I wanted to wait to see if they would announce more, but for now, this is what we have to work with. Not only are they a Tony-winning regional company, but are also a source for groundbreaking musicals and plays to workshop, premiere, and even go on to Broadway and Tony-winning glory. Let's head to SoCal and see what La Jolla Playhouse has in store for its audiences!

Shows/Dates: Kiss My Aztec!; Put Your House in Order; The Luckiest; Cambodian Rock Band

**Dates will be announced at a later date, and there are two shows left to be announced at a later date.**

Venue/Address: La Jolla Playjouse @ 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla 92093

Website: www.lajollaplayhouse.org

Facebook: "Like" them at- "Like" them at-La Jolla Playhouse

Twitter: "Follow" them at- @ljplayhouse

(The writers and composers of the shows announced for La Jolla Playhouse's 2019 season: Photo credit: 8SP_Simon Luethi)

Description: La Jolla Playhouse is a simply outstanding theatre company, serving up professional theatre to San Diego residents. Tony-winning shows such as Thoroughly Modern Millie, Memphis, and Come From Away, among many others, have treaded the La Jolla boards prior to their Broadway run. I have had the fortune of seeing their productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Sideshow, Hands on a Hardbody, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. With their current season in full swing and their upcoming season of truly diverse, dynamic work ahead, I plan on being in La Jolla as much as humanly possible. Hope to see you at the Playhouse!

[jessicajko]

The #OSF2018 rep schedule stars have aligned so that I could fly down from Oregon to the OC & catch the closing of the breakout phenomenon #CambodianRockBand!

How thankful am I that the stars first aligned all those years ago when @mslaurenyee & I crossed paths— me, just starting out as an actor in New York, starring in one of her first plays in a TINY theatre space off of Times Square— and she, fresh out of Yale undergrad but already showed the bold makings of the brilliant visionary playwright she is being recognized as by EVERYONE EVERYWHERE today— even back then, she was purposefully writing real, multi-layered, witty, silly, heartbreaking, beautifully flawed & inspiring humans for Asian Americans to be & see on the American stage.

And just last year, the stars again aligned to bring me to the #OregonShakespeareFestival where I got to experience firsthand the powerfully skilled gift of director @chayyew to take an already beautifully written play and foster & shape it into an even more exquisite living, breathing vibrant world that draws everyone in, no matter where they come from. A good leader like Chay knows he can only build this world with his fellow collaborators, and trusts in exceptional designers like Sara Clement to help advance the story of the world & characters through such detail as the functionality of a fabric’s movement, the flowing line of a hem, or the accessibility of a button snap. (Her work has been woven irrevocably into the literal action of our Hannah and the #DreadGazeboOSF last year, currently in our #HenryVOSF, & soon her artistry will extend to designing the set for #WayTheMountainMovedOSF this summer.)

I’m thankful that I could congratulate in person and gush over these exquisite actors who stepped into that space & filled it to the overflowing brim with their artistry, craft, & humanity— that I’ll work with one of them very soon this summer (@dicek2g in #SnowInMidsummerOSF) & the others I hope to cross professional paths with in the near future.

I stand in awe & gratitude of being witness to these Stars who are re-aligning the universe by expanding the definition of our American Theatre narrative.

Also, they just ROCK. (at South Coast Repertory)

[safe-without-railings]

If your near Santa Ana Go watch Cambodian Rock Band at SCR you won't regret it It was an experience that transcended me with so many emotions and it's its world premiere!!!!! First ever showcased I talked to all the actors and the playwright and they were so 😊✨😊✨ this show is their baby and they've been working on this play for over 2 years to work out all the kinks and its been evolving since it opened so watch it!! Friday Saturday Sunday is their last performances this week buy them fast!!! #CambodianRockBand (at South Coast Repertory)

[janelui]

Dun dun dun.⁣ And you’ll want to Pre-save on @spotify: 5 lucky pre-savers will get a postcard from Dashi and me. LINK IN PROFILE! ⁣ ps. Time flies. Been a month in NY already. We’re in 10hr tech days and injecting caffeine in @cambodianrockband. Please stay warm, eat cake, and say hi to someone who gets you. https://www.instagram.com/p/B76_VfgJIFh/?igshid=dq35h4h0zva2

[instapicsil3]

Cambodian Rock Band blends tragedy and joy into one of the best plays of the year. It’s a reminder that while art can be silenced, it can never be extinguished. 🎭Review by by Catey Sullivan linked in bio. 📸 by Liz Lauren. Through 5/5 at @victorygardenstheater #cambodianhistory #chicagotheater #chicagoreader #cambodianrockband http://bit.ly/2UITvqG

[instatrack]

Cambodian Rock Band blends tragedy and joy into one of the best plays of the year. It’s a reminder that while art can be silenced, it can never be extinguished. 🎭Review by by Catey Sullivan linked in bio. 📸 by Liz Lauren. Through 5/5 at @victorygardenstheater #cambodianhistory #chicagotheater #chicagoreader #cambodianrockband http://bit.ly/2UITvqG

[instapicsil1]

Cambodian Rock Band blends tragedy and joy into one of the best plays of the year. It’s a reminder that while art can be silenced, it can never be extinguished. 🎭Review by by Catey Sullivan linked in bio. 📸 by Liz Lauren. Through 5/5 at @victorygardenstheater #cambodianhistory #chicagotheater #chicagoreader #cambodianrockband http://bit.ly/2UITvqG

[rachelannc]

"Tooth & Nail" (From Cambodian Rock Band) (Dengue Fever Cover)

“Tooth & Nail” (From Cambodian Rock Band) (Dengue Fever Cover)

A little stripped-down harmonic piece from Cambodian Rock Band.

This was posted earlier this weekend on my Instagram, but thank you Jenapher Zheng (@jenapherzheng) and Kaitlyn Fee (@pressfae) for letting me be a part of this challenge! I have not seen @cambodianrockband myself, but I dig how monumental this show has become for the AAPI community, as well as for producing some amazing surf-style…

[newyorktheater]

  In a city with 1,200 cultural institutions, how do you create a new one that stands out?

That was the question – and the charge — that then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg put 14 years ago to Dan Doctoroff, according to an opening ceremony speech by Doctoroff, the chairman of the board of The Shed, the $500 million performing arts center that officially opened on Friday at 545 West 30thStreet, between 10thand 11thAvenues, just north of the end of the High Line, as part of the $20 billion Hudson Yards development.

Here’s how they want you to picture The Shed:

“Evening view of The Shed from 30th Street”

View of the Shed from Hudson Yards

View of the Shed from The Highline

The McCourt

Another view of the McCourt

The Griffin Theater with view of The McCourt. (That wall can close.)

Here’s how I first experienced The Shed (I had to get off the High Line for the street-level entrance, the only way to get into the building.)

MY view of The Shed from 30th Street. Photograph by Jonathan Mandell

The aim of The Shed is to offer original works in the performing arts, the visual arts and in popular culture in an eight-story building of 200,000 square feet (the same number of square feet as the new Whitney Museum.) The Shed has five spaces for show, including two galleries, two theaters, and a “skylit, multipurpose room” on the top floor. One of the theaters is the McCourt, which is topped by a moveable shell that can expand (on huge industrial wheels) to cover the adjoining outdoor plaza, and accommodate an audience of 2,000, if they stand. (1,250 if there are seats.) The first production at the McCourt is “Soundtrack for America,” a five night concert series offering a taste of 400 years of African-American music.

The other theater, on the sixth floor, is the  500-seat Griffin Theater. The Griffin’s inaugural offering, “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy,” starring Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming, opens tonight. (Watch for my review.)

The Shed, New York: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, rehearsal with Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming Rehearsal, LondPhotograph by Stephen Cummiskey

The key buzz words among the team that put The Shed together seem to be: flexibility, inclusion, and multidisciplinary.

“We wanted to prove we could design a flexible building without defaulting to the generic,” said Elizabeth Diller, one of its architects, who called it “an anti-institutional institution” and a facility “perpetually unfinished.”

Whether or not New York’s 1,201stcultural institution stands out in the city will take time to assess, but it already stands out from the rest of Hudson Yards, a gaudy concentration of overall glass buildings which has been widely panned.  “The largest, mixed-use private real estate venture in American history… glorifies a kind of surface spectacle — as if the peak ambitions of city life were consuming luxury goods and enjoying a smooth, seductive, mindless materialism,” the New York Times architect critic Michael Kimmelman wrote in his appraisal“Hudson Yards epitomizes a skin-deep view of architecture as luxury branding.” His description of the Shed doesn’t sound any more complimentary – it features “a giant sliding roof, eye-catchingly swathed in a tufted Teflon-based sheeting that can bring to mind inflated dry cleaning bags.” But he does offer some hope for the arts complex. “If New Yorkers take to the Shed and eat at the mall, Hudson Yards may come to seem less like some gated community in Singapore.”

Alex Poots, formerly of the Manchester International Festival and the Park Avenue Armory, is the artistic director of The Shed. “We want to provide a space for artists working in all disciplines to make and present work for the broadest range of audiences.” In addition to “Soundtrack of America” and “Norma Jeane Baker of Troy,” the first productions include  new work by the artist Trisha Donnelly and “Reich Richter Pärt,” described as “an immersive live performance and exhibition exploring the shared language of visual art and music”

Coming June 22: “Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise,” a  “futuristic kung fu musical” co-conceived by Chen Shi-Zheng and the screenwriters for “Kung Fu Panda.” Here was a brief excerpt presented for the press:

While the people behind The Shed say they are looking to the future of the arts, “Fosse Verdon” is presenting a look at couple that reigned on Broadway in the past, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi considers the power of the arts in the present. (Scroll below.)

Fosse Verdon

Preview with 18 photographs and three videos of “Fosse Verdon,” which airs every Tuesday for eight weeks starting tonight on FX.

Nicole Fosse on her parents and the show

“My parents really changed the framework for Broadway. Pieces like Hamilton or In the Heights or Rent can happen because of my father’s work. Musicals are different because of the way he constructed his musical. I also believe that my mother had an impact on the nature of what can be considered sexy – that strong can be sexy, innocence can be sexy.”

The Week in New York Theater Reviews

Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie

For its first production in its new second home downtown in a spruced-up Greenwich House Theater, Ars Nova is presenting the latest devised piece by the much-praised ten-year-old company The Mad Ones. In “Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie,” the creators of a 1970s children’s television program have hired a company to conduct a focus group made up of parents of young children. In real time, six characters who have never met before gather around a conference table for 90 minutes to answer questions about the series and the characters in it, many of whom are puppets.

The Lehman Trilogy

The Lehman Trilogy, an inventively staged, extraordinarily acted, and historically blinkered theatrical epic, begins and ends with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, the venerable financial institution, in September, 2008. But these moments serve as tiny bookends to what is really the main story being told at the Park Avenue Armory – the story of the three Lehman brothers, after their arrival in America in the 18th century

The Diary of One Who Disappeared

There’s beauty in the suffering that comes from longing. That message comes through clearly in “Diary of One Who Disappeared.” Everything else is elliptical in the production of this hundred-year-old song cycle that has been expanded and staged by Ivo van Hove.

What The Constitution Means to Me

People are gushing about Heidi Schreck’s play as if it’s another Hamilton, and in some ways it is. No, it’s not a groundbreaking hip-hop musical.  Indeed, “What the Constitution Means to Me” is a play with no music, a three-person cast and an informal air. It wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate to sum it up as a civics lesson, Schreck telling stories about her life and her family to illustrate a few amendments of the United States Constitution.

Yet, like Hamilton, it’s a civics lesson that’s stimulated an extraordinary response….On second viewing, on Broadway, I am not as carried away by this show as so many people seem to be, although I think I understand why they are…. It can still serve as a salve for the politically shell-shocked and disaffected; they just have to be a little richer.

King Lear

As King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that’s lasted a lifetime.  But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5’6, dwarfed by the dignitaries and daughters who share the stage in the opening scene at the Cort Theater.  If Jackson’s performance turns this inventive but imperfect production into a must-see of the Broadway Spring season, it’s not just because of her impressive stamina and control. It’s also the appearance of physical fragility that helps make her Lear stand out.  …DIrector Sam Gold creates some memorable theatrics in his King Lear, some of which illuminate the text for us, little of which undermine it for me.

Ashes

“Ashes” is a play based on the true story of a pyromaniac who terrorized a Norwegian town by torching homes for a month until he was unmasked as the son of the fire chief. Itis a haunting work of theater that has toured 15 countries and was recently presented at HERE. It is peopled with dozens of characters—the arsonist, the fire chief, the fire chief’s wife, many of the townspeople, and a writer who grew up in the town and wrote a book about the incident  What may have been the most remarkable moment in a show full of remarkable moments was the curtain call. Only three people took a bow.

The Week in Theater Awards

Lucille Lortel Award Nominations 2019 Off-Broadway: Carmen Jones, Rags Parkland, Mlima’s Tale Lead

Congratulations to @laurendyee winner of Steinberg/@Theatre_Critics New Play Award + $25,000 for #CambodianRockBand pic.twitter.com/3YZmu2tF2l

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 8, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/theater/shakespeare-modern-english-play-on-festival.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nyttheater

Big winners of UK’s @OlivierAwards — @ComeFromAwayUK and @CompanyWestEnd, including @PattiLuPone https://t.co/Clvz6SJgLg pic.twitter.com/61haUasrdx

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 8, 2019

The Week in New York Theater News

The Play On! Festival at Classic Stage Company will feature readings of the modern English translations of 39 Shakespeare plays that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival commissioned from established playwrights. May 29-June 30

The Perverse Influence of Titus Andronicus

There are 14 deaths in Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, beheadings, live burials and worse. T.S. Eliot called it “one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written.” But it’s inspired many — including Taylor Mac whose “sequel” to the play, “Gary,” is opening on Broadway. “The image of a mother made to eat her children was hard to shake, and a couple of decades after its 1594 premiere, artists had already begun to appropriate — O.K., fine, cannibalize — its plot for uses comic, tragic and savagely satirical. Its blood has spattered everything from bootleg Dutch tragedies to Japanese anime to Game of Thrones. Directors have staged it with almost no gore and with nothing but gore. It has been modernized, musicalized, performed by puppets and adapted to Kabuki. Stephen K. Bannon sent it into space”

Underground Railroad Game will return to Ars Nova’s midtown theater, May 30–June 15 with an opening night set for June 1. Creators Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard will reprise their performances. “Welcome to Hanover Middle School, where a pair of teachers – Kidwell and Sheppard – are keen to introduce you to today’s lesson. The nimble duo goes round after round on the mat of our nation’s history, tackling race, sex and power…”

Kathleen Chalfant

Rattlestick’s Fall 2019 season will present is a new play by Cusi Cram about the 161-year history of St. Vincent’s Hospital, the local Village that was shut down in 2010. “Novenas for a Lost Hospital” will star the great Kathleen Chalfant.

  Trump’s White House doesn’t support the arts. Nancy Pelosi is rallying the cause instead

The “To Kill A Mockingbird” cast was in Washington at Nancy Pelosi’s invitation to perform scenes for middle and high school students Tuesday at the Library of Congress.

In the absence of a White House that welcomes the nation’s preeminent composers, painters, scholars and singers to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — and let’s face it, many of them would probably say no thanks — Pelosi seems more and more inclined to cast herself as the ceremonial head of state for the arts.

..It was Pelosi, for instance, who occupied the Opera House box when the Kennedy Center Honors were doled out in December, seated next to Cher and the other Honors recipients. President Trump was a no-show for the second year in a row.

Pelosi on Mockingbird and the arts: “In this play, we learn something so important: decency. In our country right now there’s a craving for decency, and this play is about that.”

“I do believe that the arts are the most unifying force in America. It all has the power to make us laugh together, to make us cry together, to forget our differences, to bond together in the spirit of creativity. So in that spirit, there’s something that the arts can teach us, that is very hard to convey in other ways.”

  The Shed Opens. Fosse Verdon begins. Pelosi on Art’s Power. #Stageworthy News of the Week In a city with 1,200 cultural institutions, how do you create a new one that stands out?

[shauntwaz]

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[myquotablelife]

#DateNight w/ the Boo! 👻 #CambodianRockBand at #SouthCoastRepertory So excited! Heard great things about this one! 😁

[jessicajko]

Day #2: Morning nature walk in Lithia Park for these city folk, coffee in hand; they watched @cambodianrockband while I had an #AsYouLikeItOSF matinee (shout out to @0abrahamkim0 for giving @pretzeldiet his show drum stick & @themightymos his show pick!); beers/nosh @thegrowlerguys with @priskamusik bonding about music & other mutual Asian friend connections (hi @neahleeluu 👋); & #MacbethOSF at night (& of course Martino’s post) #OSF2019 #family가족 (at Oregon Shakespeare Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ps9kJJiJF/?igshid=q0dyk9cscod

[jessicajko]

Thanks @cambodianrockband fam for getting me in to join the festivities this weekend! Tho I’ll be missing the Asian Industry Night later, this more than makes up for it. Happy opening & happy birthday @joengoinsta! SoCal, don’t miss this amazing show written by the incomparable @mslaurenyee & directed by the genius @chayyew, performed by the best fucking band in Cambodia! Even after over 100 performances at @osfashland the last 8 months, they continue to bring forth such excellence, heart, & precision to La Jolla. #OSFfamily #AsianOSF #cowbell #stagedancing (at La Jolla Playhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Dx_g7D2Ly/?igshid=h62a1609r86c

[jessicajko]

::6 SHOWS LEFT:: #AsYouLikeItOSF Celebrating our WONDERSTUDIES! How fitting that I planned this for today & @native_samurai is now going on for Orlando tonight! Our show was thrown quite a few curveballs (& put-in’s) but thank GOD for our rockstar roster of revolving cast members. Caroline Shaffer as CORIN: she was brought on to build the show & stay until May when Sheila could join us. She conscientiously created the character w/ Sheila in mind, while making it her own for the time being. Then graciously handed off the proverbial staff w/ no ego & made sure Sheila was set up for success. Now that’s the mark of a true professional, ensemble member, & all-around good human. Nancy Rodriguez as CELIA: I’ve already shared my love for her but I’ll keep singing her praises, as a joy to work w/ those 3 mos & a caring friend. She’s the embodiment of light & love. I’m lucky to have 2 sweet coz’s. @kollurious as CHARLES THE WRESTLER/OLIVER MARTEXT: our 1st unplanned u/s, he really saved us when @james_ryen had to be pulled away to support @cambodianrockband’s own need for a recurring u/s. Tho Derek’s part of the artistic staff, he’s also a trained actor & seamlessly stepped in, performing 14 times w/ us. @hannfaw as PHOEBE: an internal u/s, Hannah KILLED IT. At one moment, she delivered a line so deadpan funny looking up at me w/ bright eyes, that I fumbled my next line! But my fave moment was when I exited down the vom after our 1st scene together & found our cast & crew huddled to watch & cheer her on. @clsparrow as LADY TO ROSALIND/ARDEN-ITE: one of the most hardest-working actors here, ours was her 5th of 9 tracks she’s had to do! Being the pro she is, it was like Cass was part of our show all along. She’s my fellow @circleinthesquaretheatreschool alum & a true quadruple threat— acting, singing, dancing, & Shakespearean skills. @native_samurai as ORLANDO & OLIVER: Derek will be doing 4 of our remaining 6 shows, closing w/ us as Oliver. He’s been preparing for that for months now but I’m even more impressed how ready he also is for Orlando, tho he was given such short notice. Can’t wait to play w/ him soon! #OSF2019 #ArtisticHomeForLife #theatrefamily (at Oregon Shakespeare Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3pjjhOp0BI/?igshid=k0xu1fj056yx