Millennial Notes Asian American Playwrights Highlight Diverse Stories by Amy Deng “Evolution: A Festival of Original Short Plays” co-produced by Ferocious Lotus and TheatreFirst, celebrates Asian Americans’ diverse lives in America. This festival touches on race, ancestry, and family tradition. The playwrights, directors, and actors spotlight significant struggles that Asian Americans face, daily. In…
Miranda Rose Hall Reveals Longings for Love & Transition by Barry David Horwitz “Plot Points in Our Sexual Development” recalls the risks that young people take as they explore sexual identities. Playwright Miranda Rose Hall exposes the trials and errors we walk into when we don’t know who we are, yet. Hall takes us…
Lisa Ramirez’s Teen Girls Deliver an Urgent Message by Barry David Horwitz “On the night Joan was born—all the animals in all the barns and stables in the village gave voice. And I quote. “Each animal in its own tongue so loudly that everyone in the village was kept awake.” Lisa Ramirez writes with…
Linda Evans Carves a Path to Gender Fluidity by Patricia L. Morin TheatreFirst and Lisa Evans are to be applauded for braving the sensitive questions of sexuality and gender in “You Really Should Sit like a Lady.” When I was young, gender and sexuality were not interchangeable. People were either male or female. Period….