Nick Ishimaru is used to speaking up and speaking out. Before a 2023 San Francisco Opera performance of “Madame Butterfly,” the San Francisco theater producer and director was invited to a pre-opera ...

Hinkey is also known as Shorty Bowlegs in “Dark Winds,” and plays Hank Spears in “Americana,” where Sydney Sweeney and Paul ...

The Los Angeles theater, now in its 60th year, works to cultivate, invite, and produce authentic stories told from within the AAPI communities.

Jun started acting with his first role in a stage play based on the American coming-of-age movie Stand by Me. Mamoru is a ...

Growing up Japanese American in Southern California, Saki Watanabe had plenty of role models who showed her she could be whatever she wanted to be. There were baseball players, judges, politicians and ...

Growing up Japanese American in Southern California ... There were baseball players, judges, politicians and actors. Writers, artists, teachers and business leaders. But there was nobody doing ...

Now, Japanese American community members say the stakes couldn’t be ... serious for other immigrant groups since it blurs the line between state and non-state actors who can be deemed an invasive ...

who admitted he was “concerned at the time” about white actors playing Japanese characters, but trusted the co-writer Marika Sawyer, who is Japanese-American. “I would just keep looking to ...

“It’s like, ‘They stole the show from me, but I stole it from the Japanese version,’ but then all the actors in the Japanese ... Sawyer is Japanese American. “I would just keep looking ...