Rethinking the Asian American Movement by Daryl Joji Maeda

Author:Daryl Joji Maeda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

Asian American Theater

Esther Kim Lee asserts in her invaluable and insightful A History of Asian American Theatre that the first four organizations that can rightly be called Asian American theater companies were East West Players in Los Angeles, Asian American Theater Workshop (later Asian American Theater Company) in San Francisco, Northwest Asian American Theater in Seattle (initially called Theatrical Ensemble of Asians [TEA] and later Asian Exclusion Act [AEA]), and Pan Asian Repertory Theater in New York City. The origins and purposes of these companies varied, with East West Players and Pan Asian Repertory Theater striving to train, showcase, professionalize and establish Asian Americans within the entertainment capitals of LA and NYC, AATW attempting to nurture Asian American playwrights, and NWAAT functioning as a community-based organization. Despite their varied focuses, all four grappled with the definition of Asian American culture, what was included within its realm, and what ends it should serve.47

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