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The Los Angeles Times reviews “Tea“, the new production by Velina Hasu Houston about war brides and their lives and families. The show is currently running at the International City Theater in Long Beach, CA. This reviewer doesn’t have many nice things to say and seems to think that it is all done in a […]

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By sheer coincidence, last week’s New York Magazine was chock-full of mixed folks in its Culture Pages section. First up was an interview with MMW Image Award winner Jennifer Beals:
After green-lighting The L Word, Showtime approached Beals about playing one of two characters: Bette, a headstrong, temperamental workaholic, and Tina, Bette’s slightly more well-adjusted domestic […]

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Sarah Jones is a mixed race playwright, actor, and poet. Watch her on Bravo tonight (9/8c) if you can! She will be taking the amazing work she does through her one-woman shows to the ‘tube for this special. You can check out a preview clip of the show at Bravo…and her official site here. Thanks […]

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New York Times reviews Rachel Factor’s one-woman-show, J.A.P. Through song and monologues, Rachel explores the journey she has taken from Hawaii, to being a rockette at Radio City, to converting to Orthodox Judaism and moving to Israel. She talks about how she assumed that her opportunities in the entertainment industry would be limited once […]

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Minnesota Public Radio reports on a new play that will be showing at the Penumbra Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. Slippery When Wet features an interracial relationship, similar to one that playwright S.H. Murakoshi experienced first-hand.
Murakoshi says she was constantly insecure, plus she had to deal with the stares and comments from people on […]

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Playbill reports that Jeffrey Wright is in talks to star alongside Ben Stiller in Neil LaBute’s new play, “This Is How It Goes” at New York’s Public Theater from March 8 to April 10:
In “This Is How It Goes,” LaBute trains his eye on a small town in America for what is billed as a […]