With his new feel-good YouTube series that airs every other Friday, Your Time with Thomas! (YTWT), Thomas Orlina hopes to promote diversity and inspire others to follow their dreams.
‘The Who & The What’: Play Explores faith, family, gender, and culture
Monika Jolly, who stars as Zarina in ArtsWest’s production of Ayad Ahktar’s play, “The Who & The What,” came by the role in a manner you don’t hear about every day. She created it.
Bad girl or badass girl?: A review of ‘The Villainess’ (‘Aknyeo’)
The first thing we see is a first person perspective of someone running around, shooting everyone with pinpoint precision, and stabbing multiple assailants. Blood sprays and limbs go flying in the air. Each goon is dispatched in spectacular style and barely scratches our hidden assassin.
Study: Asian American characters ‘tokens’ on TV
The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A new study finds that Asian American characters are slighted on TV programs despite progress over the last decade. Professors and scholars at six California universities studied 242 broadcast, cable, and digital platform shows that aired during the 2015-16 season. The study, titled “Tokens on the Small Screen,” was […]
Three generations, played by one artist in ‘DRAGON LADY’
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Sara Porkalob’s autobiographical solo show “Dragon Lady” begins in a basement, in darkness. A hissing sound, like a dragon or maybe just a heavy smoker struggling for air, shoots out through the playhouse air. Lights come up. Over the next 90 minutes, the set, courtesy of designer Jennifer Zeyl, […]
Author Kevin Kwan: Americans will embrace ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ movie
Kevin Kwan believes that America will embrace the “Crazy Rich Asians” movie, which is based on his best-selling novel of the same name. The Singaporean novelist was in Hong Kong recently to promote “Rich People Problems,” the third and last book in his “Crazy Rich” trilogy.
From Korea and China to ‘An American Dream’
“I just love singing,” enthused Korean soprano Yeonji Lee, making her debut with Seattle Opera in the new production, “An American Dream.” “Singing makes me feel alive. Singing makes my heart beat. Particularly, I like singing because I’m using my whole body to create music.”
Up-and-coming cellist from Redmond the next Yo-Yo Ma?
By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly It’s not everyday that Yo-Yo Ma wants to meet your family. But for Harvard student and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) fellow Audrey Chen, that actually happened. Taiwanese American and native of Redmond, Chen had the rare opportunity to meet and perform with Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble in […]
‘Birth of the Dragon,’ cool idea, terrible movie
After watching the movie, I am in consensus with Shannon Lee, daughter and CEO of Bruce Lee Company, who stated, “I think this film is a step backward for Asians in film, not to mention that the portrayal of Bruce Lee is inaccurate and insulting.
Skrein exits ‘Hellboy’ after whitewash backlash
Associated Press Actor Ed Skrein has given up up his role in the new “Hellboy” reboot after complaints of “whitewashing” due to the fact that the character he would portray is Asian in the comic books. “Last week it was announced that I would be playing Major Ben Daimio in the upcoming Hellboy reboot,” Skrein […]
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